“Audiences Think They Want Answers, but They Don’t”: Screenwriter Sam Stefanak on <em>The Woman in the Yard</em> - Filmmaker Magazine

“Audiences Think They Want Answers, but They Don’t”: Screenwriter Sam Stefanak on <em>The Woman in the Yard</em> - Filmmaker Magazine

The Woman in the Yard is the latest production from horror factory Blumhouse, but tones down the jump scares in favor of visualizing the dark imaginary of a woman battling depression. It’s not what audiences have come to expect from the studio, and it has garnered wildly divisive reactions from audiences and critics alike. Woman follows single mother Ramona (Danielle Deadwyler), grieving her husband’s death, who is haunted by a female specter in…