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Mickey Reece

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Mickey Reece is a writer/director from Oklahoma City, OK. He has directed 29 feature films in just over a decade with each subsequent work pushing the boundaries of his own established form and unique brand of art-house cinema. Reece has referred to his style as "people talking in rooms" referencing the considerable amount of dialogue on display and the lack of exteriors in his films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ben Barnes
Mickey Reece is a writer/director from Oklahoma City, OK. He has directed 29 feature films in just over a decade with each subsequent work pushing the boundaries of his own established form and unique brand of art-house cinema. Reece has referred to his style as "people talking in rooms" referencing the considerable amount of dialogue and lack of exteriors in his films.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ben Barnes

Cites Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Mary Harron and Todd Field as major influences.
Favorite film is Raging Bull (1980).
Ashamed to say the title of the first movie he directed his Grandmother, Jean Keef, in.
Developed a cataract in his right eye when he was 27.

I mean, that's just the way those movies are. So we were okay with leaning into how similar Agnes was to other exorcism films and just how generic it was at the beginning of the story, because we knew what we were going to do in the second half of the movie.
It's like I'm ripping off stuff but I don't know what I'm ripping off or that I'm not really paying homage to. I just do it on accident because I'm just working intuitively.
The location was presented to me, and then it was asked "Can you work with this location?" And I was like yeah, and I wanted to work with these actors, and so I've got a location and I've got the actors. So I wrote the script around them, as opposed to writing a script and saying, "How can I get this made?
Sometimes you meet a new actor and you just hit it off and you guys can go and create from there. But usually it takes time to build a foundation, a good relationship where they trust you and you trust them.
I don't know that we thought much about it really. We just got the characters in the room and got them talking. Vampires, used tampons and dinner parties is what came out.

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