Name a Horror character you relate to on a spiritual/personal level?

Julien Deka: Lee Abbott, the father in A Quiet Place, trying to save his family from making too much noise - didn’t work so well for him in the end. When you raise your kids to make sure they express themselves, well they do! And it can be noisy. Ben Deka: Ellen Ripley from Alien, for her resilience to survive and her determination to prevent catastrophic cosmic events. I admire her more than I can relate to her.

You’ve gotta go through some bad ideas to get to the good ones. Tell us one of your bad ideas. How do you get past the bad ones to find your spark?

Working as a directing duo helps tremendously to weed out the bad ideas: if one of us comes up with a real bad idea, we will instantly see it in our brother’s eyes when we share it with him. Now, what makes an idea good or bad is highly subjective anyway, and often the execution is what makes the idea worth it or not. Ideas generally never turn out 100% as you envisioned; sometime not as good, sometime better. On a movie like MY BLOOD, by working from conception to post, we have more opportunities to keep shaping the idea along the way. The original cut was much more longer for example. Did we cut out bad ideas, bad execution? What’s certain is that the movie flows better without those scenes.

Do you consider yourself part of a horror community?

Julien Deka: I have to admit: not really. We like genre cinema generally - including horror, but not specifically. Ben Deka: Not really.

When you’re building the world of your film, where do you look for inspiration?

it depends on the project. We’ve developed an idea for a show and it’s grounded in our childhood, in the French country side where we grew up. But more often than not, tabletop role-playing game, video games, japanime, illustration... the genre pop-culture is a big influence for us visually.

What would you do if you woke up inside of your film?

Julien Deka: I’d write myself a way out. Ben Deka: Find a car and drive away to a peaceful land of nature.

Who would be on your ultimate horror villain squad?

Julien Deka: Voldemort is a real dark motherfucker and I would have him lead the armies of Sauron and have Cthulhu under his spell. They may not qualify as horror, but those guys are pretty ultimate. Ben Deka: A Queen and 3 Aliens to defend it so it can lay its eggs.

Lightning round: Freddy or Jason? Stephen King or H.P. Lovecraft? Practical or CGI? Post Apocalypse or Pre Apocalypse?

Julien Deka: Freddy, Stephen King, Practical enhanced with CGI, Apocalypse Now Ben Deka: Freddy, Stephen King, Practical enhanced with CGI, Pre Apocalypse

What scares you, and does it inspire your storytelling?

Lies, deception, manipulation.

And finally, Ghostface would like to know ‘What’s your favourite scary movie?’

Julien Deka: since Ghostface asks, I’m going to say Scream; the quintessence of the scary movie experience, a mix of scare and fun, to share with friends and pop-corn. Ben Deka: Alien.