Shutter Island
Leonardo DiCaprio has admitted that Shutter Island doesn’t fit into any one film genre.
The actor teams up with filmmaker Martin Scorsese for the fourth time in the psychological thriller Shutter Island.
It’s the first time since the pair teamed up for the Oscar winning movie The Departed, a movie that finally saw Scorsese win a Best Director Academy Award.
But DiCaprio believes that the movie isn’t just a horror movie but is an amalgamation of a string of different genres.
In an interview with Total Film the actor said: "Younger audiences may be expecting a horror film with a scare, whether false or not, every 10 minutes, but it’s not a horror film in that aspect specifically.
"It’s more than that. It works on a lot of different levels. It’s a lot of different types of film simultaneously.
"I think the way it’s being presented, and smartly so, is to rein in an audience that wants to be scared and there is that element of the film certainly, but it’s much more.
"I’d say the term psychological thriller fits it perfectly. I don’t want to say that’s it’s Scorsese doing a Hitchcock style movie because it’s completely his own, but it’s along that style thread."
It’s DiCaprio’s first movie since teaming up with Titanic co-star Kate Winslet in revolutionary Road early last year.
Shutter Island is released 12th March.
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