So what inspired you to explore horror through the ideas of debts, vows, and accountability rather than a more traditional haunted house?

Well, I like to think that our house lives alongside us.

It holds our memories.

It's where we raise our children.

It's where our most intimate time is spent.

So I feel like a house, if it were sentient sometimes, might see us as a little bit ungrateful for the things that it provides us, the heat, the warm protection.

And I also wanted to look at it through, especially right now during the economic turmoil we're all having, I'm sure a lot of people are planning on doing Christmas on credit cards.

Is there anything that like scares you, Luna? Like, you know, you've seen so many horror films and you, you know, you're a horror writer, like anything that really like ever surprised you just about your stories or about yourself? Like when you're thinking about things and you're putting the ideas down, like any, any particular story or idea that popped out, like, gosh, that really surprised me.

I don't hear them talked about at all.

Yeah, I mean, they're Again, the, the history behind this is, is really weird.

Um, like, uh, Robin Hardy, the director, he'd never made a movie before.

And there were other people on like the camera crew told him you cannot shoot directly into the sun.

It's not possible.

So then he fired them shot directly into the sun.

Um, but so he, he did make two more sequels that basically had like no funding and went nowhere.

suspect i'd suspect the the lady who's not putting out