After doing the hardcore Quarantine, what were some of the challenges of making a creepy PG-13 film?
John: It was interesting. No one wants to see Quarantine rated PG-13. With this, we would have to push a PG-13. It would have been a soft R which would have been a mistake. Frankly, we were excited by the challenge. Poughkeepsie and Quarantine were both rated R, so we wanted to make a PG-13 movie that was scary as hell. How do you go about doing that? You show less and hear more. You have to do more with tricks, perception, and off-camera sounds. It feels more real in a way. You’re a character and you’re looking through people trying to resuscitate someone. It feels like you’re right in that space versus cut to blood squirting out. Frankly, something that really excited us was doing a balls-to-the-walls PG-13 scary movie. Drew: The script didn’t lend itself to an R rating. It would have been a very soft R which would have been a mistake. We get to play off a horribly violent moment but by holding on a close up on another character witnessing it, that can be so much more interesting tha
