Director Yam Laranas says that the scariest thing is the unknown, and there’s plenty of that to go around in his latest horror film, “Abomination.”
The film, which was just released on iTunes, stars Tippy Dos Santos as a young woman who ends up in a psychiatric hospital after she is found on a city street with no memory of who she is. Her quest to learn her identity leads to a daring escape and a shocking belief — that she is a woman who was brutally murdered two months earlier.
As you may have guessed, that leads to a few scares.
Laranas, who recently talked with TheWrap about how to make a horror movie, says he aims to explore what truly scares people. He says not knowing can be scariest of all.
“We’re always afraid of the shadows, we’re always afraid of what’s out there — the unknown,” says Laranas, who also directed “The Road” and “The Echo.”
“The most important element in a horror film is always the story,” he told us. “I want to see what’s real out there, what’s true out there and I translate them into real scary stories because that has a connection to a lot of people. … When you translate that into something horrifying, it touches a lot of people’s fears, nightmares and skeletons in their closet.”
Watch the trailer above.
Laranas’ next film, “The Wanting,” stars Adam Brody and Amanda Crew as a New England couple who descend into the depths of paranoia as they try to wrestle from the grip of a specter who seeks to take over their lives.