SNL: Wes Anderson Horror Trailer

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Written By Chris Well

“In theaters this Halloween comes a new vision of horror like you’ve never seen before…”

Saturday Night Live’s 2013 short asked what if filmmaker Wes Anderson made the horror film The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders. Actor Edward Norton, who hosted SNL that weekend, played Owen Wilson.

Saturday Night Live director of photography Alex Buono blogged about how he and his team created the video. “Wes Anderson is one of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers of our time,” he wrote. “His style is so unique that you might think it would be easy to satirize. But here’s the problem: turns out everyone has a different opinion about what MOST distinguishes Wes Anderson’s style. …And within a subculture as film-literate as the writers and producers of SNL, we were surrounded by astute Wes Anderson connoisseurs. Suddenly this spot had morphed from something I was dying to shoot into something I was terrified to shoot!”

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Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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