With The Bleeding House I was hoping to create an atmospheric film that delivered both as a thriller and as an intellectually stimulating film. In writing the script, I took as my point of departure the horror sub-genre of the slasher film. I stripped it down to its most simple elements (a man with a knife, a final female survivor) and then used those as seeds to explore what else the genre could be made to do.

In directing the film, I wanted to keep the style spare and minimal and let the characters and atmosphere do most of the work. I wanted to create a film that would bear repeat viewings not because of any shocking twists or narrative tricks, but because the characters have both psychological and metaphorical depth. I wanted it to be a film that would leave an audience thinking as well as entertained.

The horror genre and its slightly more respectable step-brother, the thriller, have always been my favorite genres, both in film and literature, and The Bleeding House is my honest attempt at exploring them in a personal and, hopefully, unique as well as satisfying way.