There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along.
If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away.
Sci-fi is definitely something that I've been wanting to do again since Panic Attack and I want to do it on a feature scale.
For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.
Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.
What some of the early horror genre masters knew, and what I know, is that the audience are perverts, but in the best possible way.
In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.
Maybe because I'm a child of the 80's, but for me a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original then you don't understand the second one.
That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.
Usually you always see first cut is an extended version, because it's basically everything you shot, and you have that version and then you start cutting stuff out.
Definitely my favorite cut is the one that got put out. That's my favorite version of the film, the one that I put in theaters. That's my directors cut, there's no question about it.
Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.
Not all horror fans love Evil Dead because of the humor, at least not me.
Comedy is all about the joke. Comedies usually don't do anything fancy with the camera [or] the lighting. It doesn't matter. It should never be fancy.
You don't see a wonderful shot in a comedy. Why? Because they don't want to distract you from what matters, which is the joke. It has to be funny, so usually all the things in the background don't matter.
