How Edgar Wright set out to challenge himself, and the past, with ‘Last Night in Soho’
When Edgar Wright set out to follow “Baby Driver” — the cars-and-crime themed 2017 movie that proved to be his biggest worldwide hit to date by a wide margin — he landed on a decidely different and darker tale in “Last Night in Soho.” Known for the madcap exuberance of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,” Wright has taken an unexpected turn into a moody and unnerving psychological horror thriller.
Blending the emotional intensity of 1960s British dramas with the color-saturated style of Italian giallos (and the films that inspired them), Wright aimed to capture something sinister lurking just underneath the central London neighborhoods where he lives and works.
“A lot of films of that period are about the darker side of Soho or of show business,” said Wright of the sub-strain of ‘60s films that served as a core inspiration. “You still have to question where they’re coming from, because there’s a lot of them which are more the sensationalistic ones that take this kind of punitive approach to the
