The movie’s shock-and-gore ways are the director’s method of coping with the lack of his mother and father, the actor Anthony Perkins and Berry Berenson, a photographer and actress.
Perkins, who famously performed Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1992, aged 60.
Osgood’s mum Berenson was 53 when she boarded American Airways Flight 11 on September 11, 2001, after which the hijacked airplane was flown into the north tower of the World Commerce Heart.
He mentioned of his new movie: “I used to be like, ‘Oh proper, this story is about this factor that creates these obscene deaths, these actually unthinkable, bizarre tragedies that come out of nowhere.’
“Nicely, I’ve skilled unthinkable, bizarre tragedies that come out of nowhere. I’m an skilled at this. And whereas once they occurred to me, I used to be definitely defeated by them, I’m an older individual now, I’m a father. I wouldn’t have gotten to, ‘Haha, I’m making a comedy about the truth that everyone dies’ if I hadn’t additionally had a few years of feeling cursed and heartbroken.”
Till his late thirties, Anthony Perkins had relationships solely with males, earlier than opting to bear conversion remedy.
He married Berenson in 1973, when she was three months pregnant with Osgood.