Aleshea Harris, ‘Is God Is’ Director, Talks Twins & Poetic Revenge [VIDEO]
By Dread Central
2 min readAleshea Harris discusses translating her play to the big screen, her Final Girls, and the current cultural conversation around domestic violence.
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Aleshea Harris discusses translating her play to the big screen, her Final Girls, and the current cultural conversation around domestic violence.
From the very first trailer, Is God Is seemed like the kind of Southern gothic horror film that sticks with you. It’s everything you’d expect. It’s swampy air and dusty abandoned ruins. It’s also the pristine white of self-righteous Bible-thumpers who believe in the prosperity gospel. But it’s so much more than bloodshed, desolate landscapes and two final girls kicking ass.
After attending my early screening of Is God Is, I was eager to catch up with director Aleshea Harris, who nurtured her play Is God Is from stage to screen. We talked about her strategy for marrying the poetry of her stageplay to the possibilities of the silver screen — especially her choice, in a post-Sinners, post-Dead Ringers world, to cast two separate people (Kara Young of I’m a Virgo and Mallori Johnson of Kindred) as twins.
We also discussed the salience of a story about a man setting his wife and kids on fire. The conversation took place after news broke of former Virginia Lt. Gov.Justin Fairfax killing his wife and himself while his kids were home, and later, a Louisiana man killing eight of his children, as well as shooting and injuring his wife and alleged girlfriend.
Ready to be absolutely haunted? Is God Is hits theaters May 15.