‘Krazy House’ Director Steffen Haars’ Says He Wanted to ‘F—k’ Up the ‘Safe World’ of American Sitcoms | Video

Sundance 2024: “The idea that if something goes terribly wrong interested us for a long time,” Haars tells TheWrap

The idea behind directors Steffen Haars and Flip van der Kuil’s upcoming horror comedy “Krazy House” came from them wanting to shake up the traditional format and cadence of American sitcoms.

Haar’s opened up about the origin of the film’s concept during a panel discussion for “Krazy House” in TheWrap’s Sundance Portrait and Interview Studio presented by NFP. The director was joined by his cast members Alicia Silverstone, Gaite Jansen and Walk Klink.

“Growing up watching American sitcoms back in Holland, there was not much on television. Lots of reruns of all the classic sitcoms ‘Full House,’ ‘Who’s the Boss?’, that kind of stuff,” Haars told TheWrap’s Executive Editor Adam Chitwood, who mentioned that the film was inspired by the sitcom “Married With Children.

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