The title of the film, obviously, comes from a children's song that most Canadians know from veteran children's performers Sharon, Lois, and Bram. But Ball discovered that the song was actually much older, dating back to the turn of the last century, after seeing it sung in an old Elizabeth Taylor movie.
"It sticks in your head," he says. "It's personal; it evokes childhood … [I thought,] 'Why don't I keep that as the working title for my movie for now, and eventually I'll come up with something better later?' But that never happened.", his YouTube series where viewers would submit their nightmares and Ball would attempt to bring them to life. Because he had, in his own words "no budget," he had to get creative in his filmmaking technique.
"Audiences are way more willing to watch something experimental and intelligent than a lot of pretentious filmmakers would give them credit for," he says. "I think that's been shown with the success of this movie. Audiences are way cooler than a lot of filmmakers would have you believe."began circulating online last fall, eventually going viral on TikTok.
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Arts Almost like horror is a drama genre and good story and film work means more then multimillion dollar budgets. I wonder why this keeps happening in the horror space? /s