Podcasts TV Kicking the Seat Ep767: Something in the Water: An Interview with SO COLD THE RIVER Filmmakers Paul Shoulberg and Claire Tuft

Ep767: Something in the Water: An Interview with SO COLD THE RIVER Filmmakers Paul Shoulberg and Claire Tuft

Published: May 9, 2022, 10:37 a.m.

Ian talks with writer/director Paul Shoulberg and producer Claire Tuft about their new horror film, So Cold the River!

Based on Michael Koryta's novel, the movie follows down-on-her-luck documentary filmmaker Erica Shaw (Bethany Joy Lenz) as she visits an old Indiana hotel in search of stories for her latest gig. There, she discovers secrets about the people of West Baden's troubled relationship with her subject, and begins to fall prey to a malevolent supernatural force. At the center of it all is a local legend involving the town's river and the mysteries that travel its currents.

Shoulberg and Tuft discuss the challenges in adapting a 500+ page book into a ninety-minute film; how setting an attitude and an aesthetic for a movie can lead to creative surprises, and why it was important to shoot in the location that Koryta wrote about instead of relying heavily on sets.

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