‘Darby and the Dead’ Director Silas Howard Admits His Team Was ‘Haunted’ by Their Own Rules of Paranormal Activity

16.12.2022 - 22:49 / thewrap.com

very reluctantly. The only reason Darby agrees to help is because Capri quickly figures out that she can use her ghostly powers to draw a lot of attention to Darby, in ways that the latter can’t easily explain off. (This includes a moment at the end of the film, when Capri terrorizes her own party guests by making a ouija board fly around the room and deliver messages).But, like we said, there are rules.

Capri can’t actually touch anything, nor can she see herself in the mirror, among other things. And according to Silas Howard, remembering what she could and couldn’t do became a bit of a headache.“It was a tricky balance. Like, we made up these rules, and then we were haunted by them, pun intended,” Howard joked with TheWrap.

“It was annoying because, like, saying that she couldn’t move things, it was hard to move things!”That being said, Howard and Cravalho did have fun figuring out how Capri could work around those rules to wreak havoc.“When there’s the bathroom scene, you know, it was really fun because I was like, ‘Oh, you’re just finding these powers. There’s a little joy in the fact that you know how to do this,'” he explained. “And there’s also like, you know, it’s like, how do you move something with your energy? And so just finding that like, hand flip or whatever, it was really fun to find the physicality.”In the end, Howard brought in a movement coach to help figure things out, which he says made all the difference and allowed him to keep the rules, but still make the story character-based.“What does unbridled teenage rage look like, you know what I mean? And sort of, you know, playing around with that,” Howard said.

“And then when you know she’s manipulating Riele, like. how do we capture that for Darby. But