A considerably more detailed explanation of the plot of "25/8", as well as some other tidbits, from Wes Craven in an interview done at ComiCon.
This is an unorthodox idea for a horror movie. Can you tell us how you came up with this idea? Wes Craven: I wish I could. I mean, it just came to me. It's what I call my "shower thoughts," when I just occasionally have an idea and you just have to jump out of the shower and write it down. So, it just came to me and, I don't know why. It's this normal guy. He has schizophrenia but he's completely under treatment. They've identified all the personalities within him. They're all relatively benign. They have an agreement. His psychiatrist speaks to them through hypnosis. He leads a very normal life. He hasn't even told his wife about his condition. There are a series of serial murders taken place in the town and it's never occurred to him that he might be a part of it. He's in his workshop and he finds a bloody knife that matches the one that people describe as being the killer's. He hears the voice speak for the first time as the killer that's been using him as his conveyance and says, 'If you tell anybody I'll kill your family.' So, that's how it starts and the main story is about the son of this man who dies in the first act, and the souls of each of the personalities, plus the soul of the child go into the seven children born that night. The son was one of them. He was rescued from his dead mother's belly. The man threatens to come back and kill them all, because each of the personalities helped turn him in. None of these kids know any of this. It's all been kept from them by their parents so they can lead normal lives. It's the night of all of their 16th birthday when it all happens and he makes his move. The title comes from, again, it was just an idea, but the idea was if you want to fight the devil, the devil fights 24/7 so if you want to win you have to fight 25/8 to do it. It was kind of a working title. Originally it was called Bug, about the title character and then Friedken came out with a movie of that title so I had to change it. We just took the phrase from a line in the film.
This doesn't seem like a very gory film. Is there much violence in it and is this going to be rated R or PG-13? Wes Craven: No, it's definitely R. It's not a bloodbath but, you know, six or seven people die... and not pleasantly.
Is there a release date set for 25/8 yet? Wes Craven: No. We'll be done sometime in early January, so it'll be sometime after that. It just depends on Rouge's schedule, I guess. (Rogue is the branch of Universal that's releasing the film).
Link to the whole interview:
http://www.movieweb.com/news/34/30234.php
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