Don’t Tell a Soul writer/director Alex McAulay! Check out our full conversation below.
Dread Central: Where did the idea for
Don’t Tell a Soul come from?
Alex McAulay: Many of the events in the movie come from real life, when I was growing up in Texas and Ohio. People actually did rob houses that were tented for termites. A kid fell and got stuck in a shaft in an abandoned auto factory for a day. One of my classmates accidentally shot one of his friends in the woods when he was 12. I wanted to create a dark and unsettling story, like a creepy fairytale, set where the American Midwest meets the South. We shot this movie an hour and a half away from where I went to high school. The feuding brothers at the center of the story were inspired by my dad and his older brother, who had a difficult relationship.