Ian McCulloch and James Wan have joined forces to bring us Teacup. It’s very loosely based on the Robert McCammon novel Stinger.

We actually get more of a character-driven horror, and we’re thrown straight in with the characters. We get to know what they know about the genre elements, and that keeps everything suspenseful. I had to start the interview with McCulloch asking about this decision to put us into the horror.

He made it very clear that this decision was intentional. It helped to bring the horror to life, and that’s what he wanted to do.

I never want the audience to know any more than our characters, because ten you’re just waiting for the characters to catch up. So putting them in the same brain space and thought process as the characters is exactly what we want, because we need you to care about the characters.