We chat with TheRitualKiller director George Gallo and star VernonDavis85 as they break down the dark murder thriller, share their initial reservations about it, and more:
Morgan Freeman is back to hunt down another brutal serial murderer in The Ritual Killer. The film revolves around a struggling detective who must turn to a local anthropologist with his own dark secret to help solve a string of ritualistic murders in the area that seemingly link back to similar deaths overseas.
I said, "You know what, I'm gonna shoot this a little more down and dirty documentary-like," and then the next thought I had was, "I love William Friedkin's work. I love French Connection, and I love Sorcerer." He did a film called Cruising, which some people have mixed emotions about, but I find a beautifully disturbing movie, and I watched it a bunch of times.
You say there's a lot of correlation in the role. What was it like for you then really diving into this deeply disturbed killer? George Gallo: It was in the script, and Joe Lemmon, who was one of the producers, researched this heavily. When I started this, I knew nothing about Muti, or how it all worked out, and I went online, I looked at what the Warriors looked like, they did all kinds of things to their bodies and faces, each thing had different meanings. But I just let them do it, I wasn't going to get in the way of it.
But to me, it's like a lot of authority figures, you see a person in a uniform, be that a soldier, a policeman, a politician, you assume they've got their stuff together, but you don't know what they're like at three o'clock in the morning at the end of the bed, you know? So that's what we were playing around with, and I hope people understand. One film critic got particularly nasty, that the film was advocating police brutality, I didn't see it that way at all.
We had one scene where I was walking towards him with a knife and I made a choice, but he said, "Try this." And it was very subtle, just dropped it, looked at him, looked up, and then walked towards him. He loved it, he said, "Yeah, like that." But it was wonderful being on [set with him], I didn't know what to expect, because I've never worked with him. But after leaving, I was very, very impressed.
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