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Jon Wright is a Northern Irish television and film director and screenwriter. Career. He is known for directing the British low budget horror comedy Tormented starring Alex Pettyfer and the Irish monster movie Grabbers. He directed and co-wrote the science fiction adventure film Robot Overlords starring Ben Kingsley. The estimated budget was ...
Mar 14, 2023 · Unwelcome: Directed by Jon Wright. With Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Kristian Nairn. Married couple Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent and murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden.
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Director: Grabbers. Jon Wright was born on 2 March 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Grabbers (2012), Robot Overlords (2014) and Tormented (2009).
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Mar 17, 2023 · Unwelcome: An Interview With Director Jon Wright. Image courtesy of MPRM Communications. by Alix Turner about a year ago. Jon Wright’s Irish set horror Unwelcome brings an unfamiliar variety of little people to contemporary film audiences, as well as some thoroughly down-to-Earth thugs.
- Alix Turner
- Here A Goblin, There A Goblin
- Past Influences Factor in
- Feeding Frenzy
To be sure, Unwelcome falls into that addictive creature feature horror genre. It vividly explores the grueling concept of a home invasion—a someone or something suddenly in your home, but there’s not much you can do about it except scream and get really clever. While working on the script together, Wright and Stay wanted to explore themes surround...
Wright also noted how intrigued he was by the 1985 Stephen King film, Cat’s Eye, starring Drew Barrymore. Mostly, how the creative team used a very tall adult actor and tweaked the set. The overall effect made everything look more realistic and believable. Could he and Stay, in fact, create something similar in Unwelcome? “We did the same thing, bu...
Funny enough, Booth wasn’t a huge horror fan growing up. He loved The Lord of the Rings and Gladiator, and other epic adventures, and even took a liking to The Shining, but “I just never liked the slasher films like Saw,” he noted. “But I fell in love with the process of making a horror movie, and I'd love to make another one because as a team, you...
- Greg Archer
Mar 9, 2023 · Jon Wright talks with CBR about his directorial debut, Unwelcome, a supernatural thriller based on Irish folklore. He shares his inspiration, influences, and vision for the goblins, who are the embodiment of violence and trauma in the film. He also discusses his previous horror roles and working with Douglas Booth.
Mar 12, 2023 · Jon Wright and Douglas Booth talk about the fantasy folk horror film Unwelcome, their genre inspirations, and their co-starring roles. The film follows a couple who inherit a house in rural Ireland and face an ancient force and local threats.
