

The urge is understandable as months pass by in quarantine, sometimes we just want to watch something scarier than what’s outside our window - especially when, like Savage, you live in a metropolis like London whose denizens have forsaken masks and social distancing out of sheer boredom. “A fun roller-coaster that you can watch and forget about what’s going on for a bit.” “I wanted something that was a bit removed ,” he tells Rolling Stone.

Ten minutes into the latter’s 1972 epic Solaris, though, Savage gave up and turned on Halloween 4.

When lockdown began, British director Rob Savage intended to make the best of his isolation - digging out classics by the likes of Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, and all the rest.
