Here at Men’s Health we’re all about feeling alive. And is there any genre of entertainment that helps anyone feel more alive than the one where the threat of someone being knocked off is always right in front of you? We love horror, and we’re celebrating it this year with MH Horror Week. The following story is part of a collection we’ve curated celebrating some of our favorite films, TV shows, filmmakers, and performers in the genre. We hope you enjoy—and maybe find a few new scares along the way too.You can find all of our MH Horror Week 2022 coverage right here.WHEN WRITER AND DIRECTOR TI WEST made a movie in 2013 called The Sacrament, his crew built an entire community. There were (fake) homes, hospitals, pavilions, and offices, and the world they created was populated, for 12 hours a day for a full month of filming, with actors and extras everywhere. Sure, it wasn’t real, but it certainly seemed like it. It felt weird, then, that upon finishing the movie—where for weeks he’d just seen people eating, and hanging up laundry, and generally just living—the entire set was torn down and sold off as lumber. This experience stuck with West well into production on X, an A24-produced, Texas Chain Saw Massacre-inspired slasher about the making of an adult film that was his first feature film in six years. The movie was filmed in New Zealand during peak COVID, and the set underwent a similar transformation—X doesn’t take place… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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