Director Vincenzo Natali and his “In the Tall Grass” leading man Patrick Wilson celebrated the global release of their Netflix Original feature at Spain’s Sitges Intl.
Fantastic Film Festival on Friday.That morning, Natali, who doesn’t speak Spanish, opened the Sitges Pitchbox, a pitching competition for European first-time filmmakers in the horror genre, with a speech delivered entirely in Castilian Spanish he’d rehearsed for days before.
The room went nuts.Written by Natali and based on the novella of the same name by Steven King and his son Joe Hill, the film was produced by Canada’s Copperhead Entertainment for Netflix.
It follows pregnant Becky and her brother Cal into a field of… well, tall grass, lured by calls for help from a small boy.Inside, they cross paths with young Toby and his parents Ross (Wilson) and Natalie, similarly lost in a field that doesn’t
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