How David Prior's ‘The Empty Man’ Survived the Perfect Hollywood Storm
We talk to the filmmaker about the unfortunate fate of his ambitious horror fIlm.
Twentieth Century Fox
Last October, a horror movie came and went. It wasn’t the first time a Hollywood studio dumped a horror movie in the middle of Halloween; given the ongoing pandemic, few films with a theatrical release could have moved the needle in 2020. But in the case of
David Prior’s
The Empty Man, this release was just the tip of the iceberg, the near-final act in a first-time filmmaker’s multi-year struggle to bring his vision to the screen.