MyCocaine wrote:Amazon is giving The Neon Demon a 3 month long theatrical run before streaming it online.

That's a great deal for Refn. It's more attractive for filmmakers to sign on with Amazon than Netfilx.

“I think Neon Demon had some similarities to Drive,” he tells Thump, saying “it’s kind of a sparse electronic score.” Noting that the score “is almost all synthesizer,” he adds, “there’s a lot of places where the music is really pushed out more into the spotlight, even more than Drive. I think I got a bigger part in the film, it’s flattering.”

Segueing from the score to the actual film, he says, “We describe the first half as a melodrama like Valley of The Dolls, and the second half is like Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It doesn’t seem to be a traditional horror film to me, but horror is the genre that it’s closest to.” Speaking more about the different tones, he continues, “The first half of the film was kind of romantic so there’s a lot of romantic music. But then there’s some cold-blooded horror stuff too and I think could be really creepy.”