![]() Well, we talked a lot about different influences in Norse mythology. You know, that you could sort of build a mystery, just a very simple visual mystery around it. He threw a bunch of images across the desk based on those conversations. One of the things we loved about this was that it, it was a difficult construction to understand at a certain glance. The Ritual brought on Keith Thompson, a concept artist for Guillermo del Toro who has worked on Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Pacific Rim, The Strain, and Crimson Peak. Here's an insightful quote regarding Thompson's design of the creature: Even without the very human story at the center of this movie, it's worth a watch for the monster alone. One of the coolest aspects of The Ritual's monster is its bizarro design and how it was glimpsed piecemeal throughout the telling of the tale-an antler here, a spooky visage there, a pair of human-like hands somehow extending from too big a body-all up until the final act where it's fully revealed in all its horrific glory. So, what you’re seeing is how it desires to be interpreted, and it’s part of the way it intimidates and controls. Because the idea of these kinds of shape-shifting Norse gods is that they can kind of choose how they want to look to you. So, yeah, we had to feature it and that meant that we had to kind of literalize not just how it looks, but how it chooses to present. There are many movies that I admire that are withholding until the end, and like I said, we just felt that wasn’t this film. Whatever that means. So we always knew that we wanted to reveal, in one way or another, what it was. That the movie should always go for it, in the end. sort of this old Norse Viking nightmare that these modern men have wandered into. Bruckner spoke about the mythology of the creature and the decision to save the full reveal until the end of the movie: ![]() Our own Haleigh Foutch spoke to Bruckner about his movie and, specifically, its ending and original monster creation.
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