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The Stars and Creator of Viral Film ‘Megan Is Missing’ Reunite on The Boo Crew Podcast
There is a found footage film that has gone viral on Tik Tok and social media over the past few weeks. Viewers claiming they are being traumatized. Some are convinced it’s real. It’s even become somewhat of a dare to even sit through it, going so far as to prompt its creator to post an eerie video on Tik Tok (below). Over 200 million views on the hashtag and counting. It has even recently soared to the number one spot on IMDB.
The movie is 2011’s Megan Is Missing.
We invite you to go behind the mystique of the film with a very rare conversation and cast reunion with writer / director Michael Goi (the now Emmy nominated Cinematographer and Director behind projects like American Horror Story and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and the two stars of the film – the wonderful Rachel Quinn and Amber Perkins! On The Boo Crew Podcast Episode 185, they answer absolutely everything you’ve wanted to know about the movie and how they made it, including the film’s important message.
Hear the detailed story behind the mechanics of the incredibly disturbing final 22 minutes that has resulted in more than a few sleepless nights.
“I can’t look at those either…”, shares Quinn, who played 14 year old Megan Stewart, recalling the movie’s infamous Photo 1 and Photo 2 that begins the film’s shocking turn. “I’ve had some friends who are like, I’ve found this photo of you on the internet and I say, please don’t text it to me, I don’t need to see that photo anymore.”
“I just wanted people to realize….what we are actually talking about”, explains Goi on his bold decisions near the film’s conclusion.
“I didn’t want this to be a movie that people would sit and watch. I wanted this to be a movie that people would see themselves in and experience, in a personal way.”
With all the recent attention on the film, people who have found themselves deeply unsettled by Megan Is Missing have been looking for answers as well as passing along their experience.
“A lot of people want to know if it’s real,” Amber says, “What I tell them is that, for us luckily it wasn’t real. We we’re filming it, but unfortunately things like this happen to people. So it IS real. Not to us but for other people unfortunately. It’s a sad reality. It’s going on now and it’s gonna go on forever and I think a lot of people think okay, it’s not going to happen to me. That’s what everyone says before it happens to them.”
For more with writer / director Michael Goi and actors Rachel Quinn and Amber Perkins, stars of Megan Is Missing, check out The Boo Crew Podcast Episode 185. Available now on Apple, Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts! Megan Is Missing is available on VOD.
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@michaelgoi##meganismissing♬ original sound – Michael Goi
It’s been eight years since Ari Aster came onto the scene and helped usher in a new wave of horror with Hereditary, one of the rare horror movies from the past ten years that still seems to come up in conversation every single week. And it’s back in the conversation this week, with Ari Aster apparently revealing that he’s already written a prequel to Hereditary!
Ari Aster was on hand at the American Cinematheque for Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair last week, a Los Angeles festival that screened all of Aster’s movies to date. The website Gold Derby reports that Aster revealed the Hereditary prequel script during a Q&A at the event, and you can watch the full Q&A conversation below for confirmation on the website’s report.
“I wrote a prequel to this,” Aster told the crowd, referring to Hereditary. “It never feels like the right time to do it. It’s a prequel, not a sequel so I don’t know where this goes.”
Would a potential Hereditary prequel dig deeper into the mythology of demon king Paimon? Unfortunately, Aster provides no further details on his prequel approach at this time.
Aster said of Hereditary during the same Q&A, “I was just trying to make a really good horror movie.” I think most horror fans would agree that he more than accomplished that goal, and the past eight years have proven that Hereditary is an enduring classic of its generation.
We celebrated the fifth anniversary of Hereditary here on BD back in 2023.
Ron Breton wrote, “Hereditary offers a similar emotional resonance to this new generation of horror – my generation of horror– as movie-goers in the seventies when they first saw Exorcist. Much like Aster’s film, we see the incomprehensible evil wear the face of a young girl; the victim of a raw deal she had no say in, as it tears a family to its core. Sure, both films offer so many terrifying visuals that can make the hair stand up on anyone’s neck – but it also depicts intense relationships and emotions that are tangible. Real. Familiar.”
“In that familiarity lies the uncanny, ready to rear its ugly head and force us to confront thoughts and horrors laying dormant and clawing at our psyche,” Breton continued his 5th anniversary celebration of Hereditary. “And it doesn’t matter if it’s been five or fifty years. These horrors are always there, as we become pawns in its horrible, hopeless machine.”
Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd, and Milly Shapiro star in Hereditary. In the film, “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
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