isn’t just a horror film.
“Early on in the film, we explore what it means to give into compulsive behavior,” Matthews said, though she also mentioned this sort of “desire and lust and feeling trapped by those impulses'' that cannot be fulfilled has always been a prominent theme within Boy Harsher’s music. The only difference now is that it has a visual component, which puts these concepts into even starker terms by supporting Matthews’s already emotive lyrics.
Granted, it isn’t easy to tap into one’s own Id, making Esfandiari’s ability to channel the inherent rawness of The Runner’s psyche quite the feat. But within the “emptiness” and a “reckless energy” she tried to bring to the character were the memories of a “relationship in my past that left me feeling like I didn’t recognize myself” — much in the same way The Runner no longer recognizes her own reflection in the mirror amidst her killing spree.
“And then, everything else was all so realistic,” she went on to say on a more serious note, referencing the intensity of the story, which required her to do things like pulls a heart out of a dummy.