Spoiling You, Too is opening the door to Miss Mutter’s world once again, and a new collection of behind-the-scenes photographs offers a wonderfully strange glimpse of what Megan Tremethick and her collaborators have been making. Shared by Lawrie Brewster in a British Horror Studio Patreon update, the pictures bring together colourful miniature sets, elaborate costumes, ballet rehearsals and some distinctly unusual pink wrapping.
Tremethick is directing the sequel to Spoiling You and returning as Miss Mutter, with Laurence R. Harvey and Dorian Todd among the performers pictured on set. The photographs concentrate on the practical business of making the film: paintbrushes, camera setups, handmade scenery and the people working between takes. They also suggest that Miss Mutter’s next appointment will have plenty of visual surprises.
Paint, miniatures and Miss Mutter
The first clues are in the colours. Pink and green dominate a miniature house and its surrounding scenery, with a camera monitor showing how those small constructions become a screen image. In his update, Brewster compares the imaginative production design to Bernard Rose’s Paperhouse. It is an evocative reference for these pictures, where the cheerful surfaces of a handmade world leave plenty of room for something unsettling.
Art Director Caz is pictured working with the miniature set, while other photographs show Tremethick in a new costume for Miss Mutter. Brewster highlights her detailed illustrations and costume creations, drawing a comparison with the precision of filmmaker Anna Biller. Rather than revealing the sequel’s story, these images give us a look at the care going into its sets, clothes and compositions.
Ballet rehearsals and a familiar team
Among the most striking photographs is a rehearsal with Todd wrapped in bright pink and Tremethick practising ballet choreography beside him. According to Brewster, the sequence received additional help from Todd’s mother, Carrie, a dance instructor. She and Tremethick have also worked together on a dance sequence for the studio’s forthcoming Sawney, which Brewster describes as inspired by Ken Russell’s The Devils.
Elsewhere, Tremethick studies her illustrated storyboards while Todd takes a moment to relax. A further image places Miss Mutter in an arched doorway beyond a candlelit stone room, offering a quieter contrast to the bright colours of the miniature sets.
There is room for the crew, too. Brewster’s update identifies Natasha, Dorian Todd, Olly and Callum Alexander Wright among those waiting between setups, and thanks a wider team including Tom, Michael, Cameron, Paulio, Jodie and Caz. The photographs capture the mixture of detailed preparation and patient teamwork behind the more extravagant images.
Brewster describes Miss Mutter’s return as one of the few direct narrative sequels made by the studio, alongside The Slave and the Torturer. Our earlier sequel announcement has more on that production. He also promises a second selection of photographs from Spoiling You, Too, so this is not the last we will see from the shoot.
More from the British Horror Studio
The update arrives during a busy period for the British Horror Studio, following its Halloween Ball announcements. Its The Slave and the Torturer Kickstarter campaign is continuing alongside the work on Spoiling You, Too. Brewster says the campaign will help fund both the film and investment in the studio’s facilities and buildings.
Readers can explore the campaign’s Blu-ray and digital rewards through the linked artwork above. For the complete studio update and further photographs as they arrive, visit British Horror Studio on Patreon.
Robert Guthrie
Arts Correspondent, Amicus Horror
