{"id":125996,"date":"2022-10-24T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=125996"},"modified":"2022-10-28T09:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:22:54","slug":"prey-for-the-devil-exclusive-talking-exorcism-movies-the-conjuring-and-jump-scares-with-director-daniel-stamm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/cinema\/prey-for-the-devil-exclusive-talking-exorcism-movies-the-conjuring-and-jump-scares-with-director-daniel-stamm\/","title":{"rendered":"Prey For The Devil Exclusive: Talking exorcism movies, The Conjuring and jump scares with director Daniel Stamm"},"content":{"rendered":"
Upcoming exorcism movie Prey For The Devil <\/strong><\/em>follows Sister Ann (Jacqueline Byers), who believes she is answering a calling to be the first female exorcist and seeks out a place at an exorcism school reopened by the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n However, until now these schools have only trained priests in the Rite of Exorcism \u2013 but a professor (Colin Salmon) recognises Sister Ann\u2019s gifts and agrees to train her. Thrust onto the spiritual frontline with fellow student Father Dante (Christian Navarro), Sister Ann finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl, Natalie (Posy Taylor) who Sister Ann believes is possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years ago…<\/p>\n Prey For The Devil’s <\/strong><\/em>director Daniel Stamm is no stranger to exorcism movies, having previously directed The Last Exorcism <\/strong><\/em>and we sat down to speak with him about what makes this movie stand out amongst the exorcism crowd…<\/p>\n I got the script and really loved it because of the whole angle of the female exorcist, of the school – all that was just fascinating. It’s so hard to do something new in horror, and in exorcism, there’s such a narrow field in what you can do. After The Last Exorcism<\/strong><\/em>, I’m reading every exorcism script ever and I never got one where I was like ‘this is worth making, the world should have this movie available’.<\/p>\n This was the first one in 10 years or something where it’s like ‘oh, there’s something in here that goes beyond horror – there is drama, and a character that I really care for’. So I immediately responded to the script and I prepared this huge presentation for Lionsgate. I felt really good about it and everybody was like ‘oh, I think you’ve got the job’. Then another director got it and I was so crushed. I didn’t hear about it for half a year and suddenly I got a call: ‘Can you be in Romania on Friday? Our director quit, can you make this movie?!’<\/p>\n Suddenly I’m making the movie and I hadn’t even read the script in half a year! And because of the time crunch, there wasn’t much time to work on the script. So then we prepped the script as was, as the other director had developed it with the writer, and then Covid hit. Suddenly we went on hiatus for half a year and suddenly there was all the time in the world to develop the script.<\/p>\n In the original script there was a certain reverence for the church, which you never read. Normally, it’s so easy to poopoo the church and to have a cynical take on the church. The script had that but it also conveyed the church and the more modern lives. That they have an atheist psychiatrist on staff, and they are very much working with science and technology. I thought that was really interesting. The original draft was so full of research, it was fascinating. It was like this documentary, which was great [but] I wanted to make sure that the character stuff and the set pieces kept up with that. There’s always stuff that reads great and then you shoot it and you go, ‘oh my god, it’s so much exposition’. So I wanted to make sure that that balance was there.<\/p>\nHow did you first get involved with Prey For The Devil<\/em>?<\/h3>\n
What elements of the script did you change?<\/h3>\n