Hey, hello. This is Fede Alvarez. l'm the writer/director of the film.
Hi, this is Jessica Lucas. l play Olivia.
Hi, l'm Jane Levy and l play Mia.
Hey, l'm Lou Taylor Pucci. l play Eric.
Hi, l'm Rodo Sayagues. l'm the writer of the movie.
So here we go.
This is Phoenix, walking through the forest.
l never met her.
-She was really sweet. -She was awesome.
-She's really young, right? -Yeah.
l love this one, of course.
-Local actress. -Because it's kind of a past story, right?
This is a family that's been attacked with the evil book,
had some kind of weird experience with the evil book.
And, of course, we're gonna see what happened,
how that story ended, right?
Creepy guy.
lt starts so epic. l love how epic it is.
We're trying not to shoot her face.
l remember, the whole idea was not to see her eyes much.
So we were trying to be honest with the idea that,
"Okay, we know what's gonna happen with her,"
and we didn't wanna show her as really suffering
and really struggling through the chase because she's actually possessed, right?
These are all local New Zealand actors?
Yeah.
Little bit of butt.
Yeah, it's kind of a rape foreshadowing.
You wanna, kind of, put the rape idea in people's mind.
lt's true. lt's all the craft of...
And writing to create this mood.
Where did you find all these actors?
The cast and all?
But these are all Kiwis, everyone?
Yeah. Well, no.
Harold is Canadian.
That's right. Do you guys remember, Harold read with us in the read-through?
-Yes. -He was so funny.
l was talking about that today.
One time, instead of "stabbing in the heart,"
-he said "stabbing in the hand." -l love this lady.
-She's so... Oh, man. -That's right.
Yeah, where did you find this lady?
Also through New Zealand casting.
-And what do you call her character? -ls she married?
You know what? She's a curator in an art gallery.
Can you believe that?
Sure.
What language is she speaking?
Welsh.
l remember you were talking about this scene and how you wrote it.
And how Rodo came up with the idea of him being the father.
Yeah.
We knew that we had to start with a big scare, right?
We had to scare everybody on the first scene,
and they're tensed during the whole movie
knowing that this is gonna happen again eventually.
lsn't one of these people in the background in the original Evil Dead?
No, no. That's Rob Tapert's son. He's the kid.
-Oh. What? l didn't know that. -Yeah.
And then there's the guy there that is completely deformed,
and he survived two plane crashes.
-What? -Yeah.
-Completely insane. -God, that's my worst nightmare.
Yeah. You survive one, you think, statistically, it's never gonna happen again.
And then you're going down again, that must be a very weird feeling.
But it was a good way, also, to start with this worriedly creepy face,
and it's not makeup.
What was that that you were pouring on her head?
Apple juice probably.
Daddy.
Daddy, look at me. lt's me.
Do it! Give your daughter peace!
l just want you to hold me...
l love that theme that you can hear,
-the siren? The raid siren coming in. -Yeah.
l think this was one of the biggest challenges trying to make a practical effect, right?
Because we cannot burn the girl,
but we need her to be burning and talking to her father,
which was the biggest challenge.
And we ended up shooting real fire against the background and composing it for real,
because we didn't want to use CGl,
so l think we did some very small CGl touch-up in some of the shots,
but it was all real fire composed on the girl with a really good makeup.
Fuck!
l love you, baby.
lt's actually a good way to open it.
-Yeah, the upside down shot. -l love this shot so much.
When did you decide to put it upside down?
During the editing, of course. The shot was normal,
but for me, as a kid, when l watched the original Evil Dead,
something that really impressed me about the original
was all the camera work that Sam did,
and there's a moment in Evil Dead 1 where
Bruce runs from one side of the room to the other,
and the camera just looks back, and upside down,
and l thought that was so amazing, and groundbreaking, and weird.
l love the score so much.
lt's amazing. Roque Baños, the composer, he did an amazing job.
Who thought of putting the sirens in there?
That's Roque.
He lives in LA now, but he's from Spain and he just moved here.
And he was haunted, he said, by trying to find a signature idea.
lt was something that l was asking everybody in every department,
trying to find a signature thing that you do on the film so people can remember, right?
So, for the wardrobe, for the music, something that is unique about your idea.
And for the music, l was pushing him to try and find
what was that idea that's gonna make the soundtrack unique.
So he was really going crazy trying to find it, then he said one night...
You know, in LA, there's a lot of sirens during the night.
Like, you have cops and ambulances going everywhere all the time.
He was trying to sleep, that's when he realized,
"That's it. That has to be the sound."
-That's awesome. -Like, a crazy sound.
Yeah, the crank one.
Yeah, that was the crank one.
You can hear the " join us" in the air.
Have you spotted that, Lou?
-No, l didn't. -Easter egg.
When we see the house for the first time,
you can hear it in the audience, saying, "Join us."
-This was day one. -This is day one.
-Really? -Yeah.
lt was everyone's day one except for you, Jane. Yeah.
Being really nervous.
Everybody's trying to find their character.
We're all trying to find ourselves on that first day.
lt's always the hardest part of the thing, probably for any movie, the first day.
The worst part is everybody is introducing their character for the first time
but everybody's trying to find the right way to do it,
so l guess it was a good way to give birth to the characters anyway.
l love that. "Great." A very cool...
He's introduced as a douche and then he's one of the heroes.
Such a douche.
The car, of course, is missing the...
ls this your first day, Jane?
-No. -l think it is.
No, it wasn't. lt was the first week of shooting
and we did this scene twice.
So some of the shots are from a couple of months later.
No, no, l know. But your first scene as Mia is this one, right?
Your first day of shooting as Mia was out there.
-Maybe. Yeah. -Yeah.
Yeah, we reshot some of these shots, so there's a combination here, probably.
l have treats in my pocket. This is how we got him to come to me.
Grandpa. That was an interesting experience.
Yeah, remember? "Eat it!"
See, l don't open it. He might have just eaten a treat.
-"Eat it." -"Eat it."
There were really so many ways to cut this scene
because l didn't want to have Mia showing too much love for David at the beginning.
But then that felt like it'd be rough,
people wouldn't understand why she was so tough with him.
l mean, you do eventually, but at the beginning, it was a little bit weird.
So we end up showing a little bit of a smile there just to make sure that,
"Okay, she likes him. She still loves him."
l like how you use the same necklace from the original.
Promise me you'll stay with me until the end.
l'm not going anywhere.
l love this scene. l believe they're brother and sister, right?
That they're siblings. l definitely believe that.
-There's a little bit of love/hate relationship. -The well.
The well, one of the days we shot on... What was it? Twenty feet high?
-Yeah, that big platform. -'Cause they needed to get it from in the well.
And all the drugs went in your face.
Yeah. And l threw the bag right onto the camera lens.
Yeah, that shot's coming up, through the well, right?
Yup.
l love this shot. lt's so '70s, with the zoom-in.
And the looks of you guys. You all look so '70s.
Talk about, Lou, why you decided the hair and glasses.
You never have to do anything then.
You just give the homage of the '70s to it, l thought.
And plus, you just don't see guys with beards and long hair anymore in films...
This was my first day of shooting.
...unless they're playing a scrounge-y, dirty guy.
-But it was your idea. -Yeah, l liked it.
l mean, it was written, like, a guy with glasses and long hair,
but you wanted to keep the beard, the big beard.
l was a little bit against it.
And then during a lot of interviews a lot of people were praising that,
"l love that you decided to go with that look for Eric."
-l was like, "Yeah, sure. That was my idea." -That's awesome.
Was this in the studio?
Yeah, now, once we just went inside.
You know what? That's a mix of two things.
That's still the house.
This is in the woods. lt's a mix.
This is real. You can see the woods out there.
Oh, yeah.
We continued it later, l think. Didn't we?
-l love these shots. -Yeah.
lt gives you an eerie feeling of, "Something is going on."
Mom would have hated seeing the cabin like this.
Okay.
There used to be a scene there, where David will find a cat in the hallway.
lt was supposed to be one of the cats that escaped the cat slaughter.
Yeah. Why was that cut out?
Because it was a cheap scare. lt was just a jump scare
that wasn't related to the story, that really didn't do it anything.
And we wanted to really avoid that.
You guys remember this day, when we took these photos?
Probably the little CGl that's in this movie was to take my beard off for that photo.
My favorite, too, was you and Shiloh were supposed to have been in a band.
Remember? So you guys did all this stuff.
-You can see those pictures there, yeah. -You were playing guitar.
So that's our mama.
Yeah. Scary mama.
You can see all the pictures of the band on the board.
The band day was a whole day.
We set up a whole actual stage.
There's that beautiful shot of me in the corner there.
Yeah. l have a lot of those. Those are amazing.
The lullaby.
l think this scene is one of the scenes that we rewrote most times.
We worked on this scene forever.
'Cause it established their relationship, what happened before.
lt was the trickiest one, how to get all that exposition about
the past of these two characters
without being too on the nose,
and understanding why David did the thing he did.
And l played along, because...
Mia, l wanted to be there. Okay, l did.
lt's a great way. l think, at the end of the day,
this is the moment where David makes the bad choice.
ln any good story, you have one of the main characters
taking a bad step in the beginning.
lf David would have turned around here and said,
"Hey, Mia, l'm so sorry. l should have been there for you."
lnstead of apologizing to her, he's just putting excuses
and explaining how busy he was.
All she wants is an apology.
That's the whole reason why David went to the cabin at the end of the day.
That's why Mia wanted him to be there,
because Mia knew that she was never gonna be able to get clean of drugs
without closing that story with her brother.
That's the first mistake he makes.
He makes another mistake when l'm in the bunk bed, after l've been raped by a tree.
And l tell him to please help me and he leaves.
Yeah, but even there, at least there l can understand why. Right?
ln David's head, l mean, he believes he's doing the right thing, right?
l remember, doing this scene, it was also really early on in filming.
And they had told us before we started shooting that
there were gonna be days, because of the makeup effects,
that we weren't gonna be able to work with the other actor that was in the scene with us.
And then, l remember, on this day,
Shiloh was doing something, and wasn't able to be off-camera.
You actually did this scene without Shiloh?
No, they wanted to do it that way.
We got freaked out, and pissed off, so they did it anyway.
-Well, it's an important scene. -Yeah, it was absolutely necessary.
Somebody from production came to me and said,
"Yeah, we're planning to do it this way, but the actor doesn't want to."
l was like, "Of course, they don't want to. l don't want them to do it that way."
There's only so many dramatic scenes where it's not about gore and everything.
lt's all at the beginning.
Lou, did you decide to have...
l know it's a really small detail but l like you with a deck of cards.
l think it was Fede.
lt came out of when we realized we were both magicians.
-Yeah. -l don't want to get into that too much.
But l was trying to impress you with a card trick, and you were like,
"That's so good! Let me do one."
And you did the best card trick l've ever seen in my life.
And also, it's part of the original film.
Cheryl, in the original Evil Dead, she turns...
"Ace of Spades, Jack of Clubs."
Yeah. They're taking cards and trying to guess the cards.
That's what Eric is doing on this scene, right before the scene starts.
He's trying to guess the card.
The weird thing is trying to guess what's coming,
trying to know what's gonna happen.
So l actually broke the bed in this scene.
l destroyed this room. l asked if l was allowed to.
-That's cool. -You were so awesome.
l was so psycho.
You just really went for it, l remember.
That's awesome.
l had a bruise on my bum.
l love this look.
-She's really foreshadowing what's coming. -lt's so creepy.
lt's a creepy look.
Yeah, it is.
But she's pissed. She's really pissed at him.
They had that little scene in the room a few minutes ago.
And she's really not getting what she wants from him, from nobody.
That was the clock of the original film, actually.
-Rob Tapert... -That's the original one, yeah.
Yeah, shipped the clock from the States,
and that's a clock used in the original Evil Dead.
...and it reeks.
But there is no smell.
You're just extra-sensitive right now.
How did we get lnca to go over there? There was like...
Yeah, there's probably something there.
-"Eat it." -A buzz or something.
That was so tricky.
l love this shot.
"ls that blood?"
That was an improv.
That was the first thing that came to your head when you look at the blood.
Again, l mean, this is the thing with this movie,
and l think the audience always reacted...
For the characters,
yeah, it can be blood, it can be just paint, right?
But the audience knows they're watching a horror movie,
so right away, they assume it's blood.
But for the characters, it's just a blood stain.
lt's a red stain in the floor. lt could be anything.
l think the blood would make me leave more than the book would.
lf l found the book, l'd be curious. But the blood, l think it would...
Yeah, but how do you know it's blood?
For now you don't. You will once you find the dead cats probably.
Right. And of course you're gonna be curious.
l can't believe you left the line in.
lt smells like burnt hair.
Was that improv?
Yeah, that was an improv. There was another one that l love.
"lt smells like burnt hair."
The other one was "lt smells like burnt butt hair."
That was the other line.
-l think you chose the right one. -We kept this one.
What were these cats made out of? They looked so real.
They actually find real...
They were taxidermy cats, some of them.
No, they found a dead cat in an alley or something like that,
and they took a cast, like, a sample of that
and they created the other ones based on the...
l think the only CGl in the movie is those flies.
Yeah. The little flies there, that's true.
That was a late decision.
ln the script, it was gonna be crows hanging from the ceiling.
-Say that again? Oh, crows. -Yeah.
But then we thought that it wasn't as scary and was like a cliché, crows.
Yeah. Rob Tapert actually pushed us to come up with something better.
He said, "Crows, l see those so many times. Let's come up with something new."
-And there's the book. -"Witchcraft?"
What the fuck happened here?
Let's not go crazy over this. Okay?
-This was a really difficult shot to get. -We did the whole scene in one shot.
So many times.
l love this because this is when the whole thing started getting set up.
You can see how everybody's lying.
Like, David is going, "Yeah, let's not go crazy,"
and he is nervous about it.
And Natalie also.
The only one that's being honest about the whole thing, in a way, is Mia and Eric.
Which are the two guys that, in a way,
are more connected with the audience during the whole movie,
because they are the only two that never really lied.
They've always been honest about what's going on.
They don't have an agenda, in a way, right?
David has an agenda. Olivia definitely has a different agenda.
They wanna make sure that Mia gets clean,
so they're always trying to sugarcoat it, and lie...
-That's a great establishing shot right there. -Great shot.
So nasty.
Foreshadowing.
The audience really enjoyed this.
l actually found this scene fun to shoot.
lt was the first time l was really wet. And there was soup in my mouth.
Cold soup.
The vomit.
ln the early draft, Mia was supposed to be running like hell around the cabin.
l forget why we decided...
Because it was just impossible to run around the house.
And run in that small circle was just...
l love this shot. This is one of my favorite shots in the movie.
You were actually cutting that barbed wire?
No, no. lt was some plastic. l had to make it look like it was hard to
-mold and stuff. -lt looks really real.
l would definitely open the book.
-l would, too. -Who wouldn't?
That was a big question that a lot of press seemed to ask,
"Why would you open that book when it says 'Don't read it'?"
-l agree. -Yeah.
lt's the most normal thing to do.
When you're told, "Don't look down," what're you gonna do? You go look down.
Yeah, but l don't know if l would read it. l don't know. l think l might get scared.
lt's the nature of these things.
lf you get a message on your cell phone right now that says, "Don't look up,"
-you'll definitely look up. -"Don't read this message."
This was just supposed to be the book, and then you guys put it into the bag,
and into the barbed wire, because it wasn't enough of a reveal, right?
-The what? -lt was just supposed to be the book.
And then you put it in a bag, and you put it in the barbed wire,
-because it wasn't as interesting. -Was it written like that?
You're right. l think in the script it was just a book on the table.
-Human skin. -The book looks awesome.
-lt looks so good. -Who did the book?
Roger Murray and the team of practical effects, right?
One of the things that came up during the writing of the script
was those ideas of having these notes written on the book.
Like the book has history. lt has been around for a long time.
There's been a lot of people that found it and had, you know, stuff going on with it.
Who did the art for it? Who actually made it?
The art department. l mean, Robert Gillies, the production designer,
he's really the guy behind all the designs, and every drawing in the book,
and he had a great team working with him, and they created everything in the book.
There are so many different setups in this scene.
-This took forever. -This is a full day of you, alone.
But it's beautiful and it's the most important scene in the movie, pretty much.
Remember we took that wall off, that's in front of me,
that's how we got all of the front...
This POV is my favorite.
This'll distract you to know there, but those are my hands.
-l did every close-up in the movie. -Really?
Every time you see hands touching the book, those are my hands.
-Really? -Yeah.
Here we go.
We're screwed now.
That was just Aaron, our DP, running straight at me with the camera.
And when he got close enough... Yeah.
The cinematography in this movie is incredible.
-lt's so good. -lt looks so good.
And here you go.
That's a body double. That is not me. Secrets.
Yeah. You had, like, three or four body doubles.
That's probably Sophia.
We rehearsed this scene a lot.
l was jump-roping outside, right before this,
and then they poured buckets of water on my head.
You were a champion in this scene, Jane.
l remember we shot it for, like... Was it a day?
lt was a whole day, l think, just shooting this scene.
l'm going insane here.
Olivia, l feel like l'm losing my mind.
We should have cut this scene differently, ultimately.
lt was longer, right?
When you're cutting this film, the first time,
you're always anxious about getting to the horror, getting to the action.
But it was a great scene. There was an even longer version.
Probably, if someday we release an extended cut,
you'll see the full scene, which was way better.
l mean, Mia would say way more things. Everybody had more lines.
l love how everybody is creeping in on her,
and she's getting surrounded by everybody. They're coming from everywhere.
l remember this is one of the scenes that we worked on the most in rehearsal,
-l feel like. -Yeah.
Shiloh, he does a great job here.
He doesn't really know which way to go. He doesn't take a stand.
You were supposed to be here to support me, not them.
l'm here for you.
-That's why l came. -Oh, my God.
That's not true. He doesn't even dare to look her in the eyes.
l could count on you.
l remember you had football tackled me when you ran past me.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
She grabs the key, the car keys, there, of course.
This is an important moment,
because we can see that David's picking up the necklace,
because at the end of the movie,
the necklace is going to be put together again,
and that was something that we wrote at some point,
but then we'd never shoot it.
That was David putting the necklace together.
-So this was a man in a dress... -That's the last shot of the movie.
Sorry. That's the last, last shot in the movie.
The wheel going back.
This was fun, too, running into the rain. Every single time we had to do it,
we had to go back in, dry off completely, and then...
Fuck this. Fuck, fuck.
Fuck!
This was another time when Fede would have me sprint
before every single time l jumped into the car.
-What a badass scene. You did great in this. -l was so scared doing this scene.
l was sitting in the backseat, and Jane was going crazy.
l don't know if she's worried for real,
if she's that pissed off at me, or the scene, but you did a great job.
You were probably pissed at everybody.
You took the reverb out, right?
That was what you were talking about, with this?
Yeah, that's a great sound design.
This is one of my favorite scenes, and you have described it to me...
What's the movie, the David Lynch film, that you were...
-Wild at Heart. -Wild at Heart. Yeah, yeah.
When they find a car crash and...
And she's so out of it, she's looking for her earring.
That was inspired.
That inspired this scene, and we tried to get my purse, obviously.
That's what triggers... A lot of people... They see that, but it's the truth,
after a shock like that, in a crash, usually people get confused, and in shock,
and they take weird decisions.
l think everything that happens after this moment
is a little bit of a consequence of that.
She's going through withdrawal, and she just hit her face against the wheel.
She's really dizzy.
And the camera work shows it, too. lt's so fuzzy.
lt's good how it revealed that the car is completely flooded.
This is another scene that was written in a different way.
But it's a lot better now.
Swimming through the swamp was fun. They heated it.
lt's a real swamp outside, but somehow they were able to heat the water for me,
which was very nice.
And Aaron, our DP, was fully in the water with us.
Yeah.
Here comes the force.
My Sam Raimi-cam on the way.
lt was the only thing that l really wanted to keep
the same style of the original film, was on the floor shots.
The water was warm but l was trying to act like it was freezing cold.
l just want to make that clear. lt was an acting choice.
lt's really flying.
lt's a guy running through the woods with a camera.
-This next scare... -l love this shot.
My body double, that's her, Crystal, or my stunt double.
l wasn't the swamp woman.
This one makes everybody jump.
Fede had that idea the day before shooting it.
They went and shot it, and that night, he came back,
and he showed me that.
-That's true. We didn't know what to do. -lt works well. lt was great.
-This was hard work. -l like this shot, too.
The trombone effect on the vines.
So now we're in a studio, where we made this stuff.
-No, this is still the forest. -Oh, no. Yeah, this was outside, right.
And l think now we're going to cut to the studio.
-Yeah, this. Oh, cool. -Right there we cut to the studio.
Again, Robert Gillies, the production designer,
really did an amazing job in putting together all these vines.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Love the music, how the music really hits every little movement of the vines.
Every motion of the vines is mirrored with a music cue.
l didn't know how to fake-choke so l, sort of, was really choking myself.
This is such an awesome scene.
There were guys pulling on those ropes, off the shot, pulling at me,
and l was hung up by a harness.
l don't think anybody realized,
well, this is obviously evil Mia, right? lt's herself.
But you look so different there.
l don't think everybody realizes that, when they watch the movie, that this is you.
l think they will, the next time they watch the movie,
when they watch it for a second time.
l love that vine. lt's a real vine.
-This is a visual effect, of course, right? -Really?
We shot the vine against a blue screen.
Was this originally in the script,
or was this something that you decided to add in?
-'Cause, l feel like l didn't read this. -lt changed.
The rape wasn't in the script.
That was Rob Tapert's idea.
Just like in the original movie, the rape scene is Rob Tapert's idea.
On this film, that was also something that Rob encouraged us to put in the script.
Like, the scene will end with just...
There was a whole scene of Mia fighting a coyote,
a dead-eyed coyote.
-Yeah. -Scary.
-Yeah, it was cool. But then when... -Oh, l forgot about the coyote, yeah.
This is when you came back, and, Jessica, you're suddenly
-more tanned. Remember? -Oh, that's right.
-l remember that you were away for... -That's right, l went...
So, l finished shooting six weeks in, and then l went away,
and l had to come back to reshoot some things,
and that was one of them.
And that's true, l was about five shades darker,
because l had been on vacation.
There was another version of that scene where you guys find me,
where l was walking,
and they poured blood down my leg like l had just been raped,
and it stained my underpants, and it was so disgusting.
lt was horrid.
l hope that's included in the DVD, eventually.
There's a great one of you walking away,
and they start calling you, and you look at them, you keep walking, and you faint.
There was many versions of that.
l like that version.
This is, again, one of those scenes
where they're going to take the wrong decision.
l love that everybody had the right motivations, right?
Like, Olivia, she makes all the sense in the world.
l think so, too. And when she comes in, how freaked out she is,
l think it was really honest and really important for...
Yeah.
...probably did it on purpose.
What?
David...
Yeah. The audience knows that from now on,
things are going to get fucked up.
This is one of my favorite scenes, by far.
l remember after this scene you told me, "Okay, this movie is going to be scary."
Rob Tapert, like... We shot the movie chronologically,
so, the producers, they didn't know what we were doing.
And, in fact, they knew that we were shooting a lot of drama,
and they were really anxious to get to the horror.
And l remember Rob Tapert saw the dailies for this scene,
and he was, like, so happy that now we're getting into the horror.
l wanted to ask, who came up with the slow talking?
-Just how slow it is, and how pronounced... -lt was Jane, right?
Well, l think it was both of us.
lt's in the script. Some of it is in the script. She's completely out of her mind.
Yeah, and l love the close-up of my snot.
l have so much snot in this movie, 'cause l was just constantly crying.
So creepy.
Shiloh had marks on his arm, l was holding him so tight.
lt was so tough, for him, also.
l remember, l was outside a room,
and Shiloh would come out, and we'd talk, do another shot,
and come out, and talk, do another shot.
He acted like it was so hard for him to see his sister.
Shiloh, he took his job very seriously,
so he was so committed to the scene,
and trying to understand what would it be to see your sister out of her mind like that.
And l think he was really, really in the same place he is right there.
He was really suffering, seeing you, Jane, at the place where you were doing this scene.
lt was so, so cool.
l just felt like... l got raped by a tree.
You have to be completely fucked up from that,
-and terrified. -Of course. And there you go.
Oh, God. That's amazing.
l love that, because, the whole scene starts with Mia saying, like,
"There was something in the woods, and it's in here with us now,"
because, it's her, right?
lt's just so creepy.
Because being raped is her being injected with the devil, whatever, spirit.
Yeah, that was a good thing, also, l guess.
That was a good choice with the script of not using the rape scene just as a shocker,
but as something that would move the story forward.
And after the rape, now Mia, she's never gonna be the same person.
...helping your friend clean up that mess.
l don't know who you're talking about.
This used to happen sooner in the story, actually.
Yeah, that's right, 'cause my hair's down again.
Yeah. Was supposed to be earlier in the story,
but it was just slowing down everything too much.
And if it was in the beginning, it was too much exposition at the front,
so we decided to move it to later. l think it was a good choice.
-"Truly amazing." -That's a line from the original film, too.
This is a good moment also for David. Suddenly you feel for him.
He's the only one cleaning up the place.
Eric is working with the book. Everybody is doing something different.
He's the only one with the task of getting rid of the dead cats.
And, of course, this is where things really start going south.
lt's only one of the very few...
lt's not CGl, it's actually touch-up.
lt was impossible to read the blood under the rain,
because we would put real blood there, the fake blood,
and it would wash away.
-So we had to... -Color it.
Yeah, help it in post, to be able to see the blood.
That was the last shot.
You can see the lens getting all foggy on the sides.
You know, that's on location,
so we were running out of light, and it was the last shot,
but it looks amazing.
The color of the sky, and the mood in the woods, it's just perfect.
Of course, we're establishing the little hole,
where Mia is gonna come out of that hole, escaping from the abomination at the end.
This was probably hard as an actor, 'cause it's definitely a stuffed animal.
So having to hold a wet, bloody, stuffed animal
and be upset about it is...
Yeah, this is definitely a very tough scene.
And Shiloh ended up doing a great job.
lt was hard to...
On one hand, your dog died, and you worry about it,
but on the other hand, you know something else is going on,
and this is just not normal that it died.
And, in particular, when he sees the hammer, of course.
So, when l got to shoot this scene of me with the hammer,
it was a sponge with blood on it, and dog hair on it.
So every time l hit the sponge, it would fly up.
All those stains in the lens are real.
The blood was really jumping everywhere, and staining the glass.
l remember when l was screaming, too, l really hurt the sound guy's ears.
Yeah.
l think this next scene is the first idea we had
when we started working on this movie.
-Being burned? -Yeah.
That's the first thing we thought.
Yeah, it was your idea. lt was awesome.
This is really creepy.
This was the best one to read, in the script, for me.
lt was just so nasty to think of her scalding her own head.
So many things going on. That's what l like.
l mean, she's burning herself.
David knows what she did, but they don't know. They're behind him.
lt's just so many layers of things going on at the same time,
and they make for a very good, tense scene.
This is a good example, too, though, of something, like,
we never saw what you were doing, off camera.
lt's good, the characters, they don't know what's going on in the bathroom.
They don't know why David is so out of his mind.
l love this one, also. The shoulders...
Those blisters are amazing.
Olivia!
So disturbing.
l love this, like Eric is the only one that is realizing
this is just too much to be real.
l love this moment, too.
Had some Alka-Seltzer in my mouth.
Shit.
This is insane.
Originally, there was a cell phone shot where there was no service,
but you took it out.
l'm really glad that you took it out.
-There was no technology in this movie. -l like it.
l don't think the audience needed the classic, "Oh, there's no reception in my phone."
lt kind of takes you out of it.
lt's great that this story could be happening in the '70s, or the '80s, or the '90s
and it would work.
Even the car, all the technology is quiet, you know, timeless.
This is another shot, that,
when we were telling everybody we used no CGl in the film,
when they were looking at this shot in the trailer,
they were, like, "That's definitely CGl." That's a real river.
That's a real river that was completely flooded.
We wait until the river... We wait for a big rain,
and we got a lot of rain for two days,
and we sent a second unit to get that shot,
which is actually the same river that he crosses at the beginning of the movie,
when the jeep crosses the little creek,
is exactly the same place, the same path.
l wanted to use the same exact spot, and flood it for real.
-So we waited until God flooded it for us. -That's cool.
And we went there, and we shot that shot.
-So it was really... -This is my favorite.
Yeah, this is definitely when everything goes to hell.
How upset you are is so good.
Yes, Jessica, you did a great job acting scared. lt was just amazing.
l think this is the moment, for me, when, like, Olivia finally realizes that
it's not withdrawal.
So, it had to be a shift in where she was coming from.
Please! Let's not lose our heads, okay?
This is, again, a good way to start.
l think the whole idea of the movie is crafted in a way
where the audience is a big part of the story.
The audience, they know a lot of things the characters don't.
And showing that shot of Mia coming in the hallway,
and they don't know, they're completely clueless,
and the audience knows.
That always makes for a great interaction with the audience.
l love this, how you wanted me to do this, 'cause that was all you.
That was in the script, right? That's not what we came up with in the...
-lt was a little bit in the script, but... -Just how crazy it was...
And this is the most shocking part of the movie, when l watch it,
-that she actually shoots. Yeah. -Pulls the trigger.
-She looks really... -The noises of the cracking.
l look like a scary bug.
Yeah, because that's another thing on the sound design,
l asked them to come up with that signature sound for the Deadites,
to have that little thing that you're always gonna hear every time you see them.
And, it's there, it's kind of buggy.
lt's like a little bug trapped in a jar.
Remember you had everything happen, actually happen to us for this
so that we could actually react to it.
-Yeah, the windows break. -The windows blew out.
That's all right. Boom. Blast.
-And there was a huge wind tunnel. -Everything just goes...
-This scream, too, is so impressive. -lt's awesome.
You can hear in the air the omen from the original film,
you can hear Cheryl going, like, "You will die. One by one we will take you."
You are all going to die tonight.
Such a scary prediction.
-l love this moment. -The smoke?
'Cause someone's smoking a cigarette right in front of me.
The eyes turn.
This was the hardest thing ever.
-But pretty amazing that we did it. -Yup.
That actually came out of my mouth.
We did that, probably, four times, l think.
And we had to clean Jessica up between every single one.
That's right.
Jane was so upset. You were so sweet.
You thought that you were really drowning me, or something.
-This was my audition scene. -Yeah, that's true.
This part of the scene was so hard to write,
'cause it was so difficult for us to think
how it would be to be there, and then, how would you react.
lf someone vomited all over your face?
lf that happens to you, like, it was crazy.
Just great. l love you, Jessica, there.
You're completely covered in vomit trying to give sense to the whole thing.
l'm still trying to be logical through it all.
But this is when, really, Evil Dead has come into the story, right?
lt's when the real drama, bumped into an Evil Dead movie,
suddenly everything starts getting so insane.
l love the idea, too, that Mia has become a beast,
and she's that strong that she can...
And that she's so disgusting, that she's hurting herself
by throwing herself against...
This is why l think the audience loves Eric so much,
because he's saying exactly what everybody thinks
in the audience, right?
Like, "This is not a shot, it's not gonna do shit."
-Oh, here we go. -Hold on,
here's the beginning. The beginning of the end for me.
This was so cool 'cause the mirror really broke. l don't know how you guys did that.
l'm so sorry about that. l was, l think...
-lt was scary. -l felt bad for you.
l mean, l was worried, because, we did it a couple of times,
and then, the third time, l think a piece of glass
jumped in your eye or something?
lt got close.
And this would actually close. lt was so cool to watch this.
Now, this was a timing thing though, too, 'cause the mirror had to go away from me,
and then, as it went away from me, l had to actually do that face,
and then go back to being me.
That physical scare is so good, with you jumping back like that.
Now the fear is amazing, l love it.
Oh, l love when you walk out here, and you get stopped by the force.
And l realized you had a harness on.
-l had a harness on, yeah. -Wow. Was that what it is?
So, that was a timing thing as well. That was a hard thing to figure out.
That's the scare that l love the most, l think in this movie, is that one right there.
-l love that. -That works perfect.
So scary!
l didn't actually have to do this. This was my stunt double.
l'm gonna give big props to her for going through this.
-Peeing herself. -Peeing her pants.
-What was it? -l love this.
Just a bottle of water, or something?
The drooling is just so disgusting.
Oh, yeah. She took her vitamins.
Yeah, she wasn't dehydrated.
So good.
l think, from now on, the story's starting to be in real time, almost.
There's almost no time- jumps in the whole story, from now on.
lt's almost real time, the whole time, till the end.
This is really a great way.
And for me, yeah, it was a lot of fun
playing with the genre of clichés, where l, like...
You want this to be as long as possible.
You want this to be
-Eric's longest walk in his life. -The audience freaks out.
Yeah, because when you do it, it's kind of silly,
you go, like, "Why would it take so long?"
But when you're in the theater, people are, like, so scared,
just waiting for him to get there.
-This is so nasty. -The noise.
This noise is so disgusting.
We did this so many times. We did this for days.
And how fast and hard your arm's moving.
Yeah. Jessica got the worst part.
She got the tougher job. Toughest job in this scene.
-Yeah, those days were just... -Her thighs were always stuck to me.
That's right. lt was just days of being covered in blood,
and sticky, and uncomfortable.
And this was supposed to end a lot quicker.
And then we did the reshoots, too.
Yeah, that's true. l mean, the scene was shorter on the pages.
This is a good example of what it means to have Sam Raimi behind the movie.
l mean, he knows the horror audience like nobody.
So, after he watched the first cut of the scene while we were still shooting the movie,
he really encouraged us to keep going.
Yucky, yucky, yucky!
This shot took a while to get, too, we did this many times.
-lt's the scariest thing in the movie, to me. -l love the question,
"Why did you do that?"
Then, like, we already...
And the piece of face...
Just so you guys know, Lou actually did that back fall. Did it a lot.
-l was so worried about you. -l did it every time.
You hit your back on that?
He jumped back. You know, he did it, like, a ton of times.
For the shot, we had a stunt guy do it, but every time, l did it.
Oh, yeah!
The surprise, that you think she's in the shower, and suddenly she's on top of him.
And the way you look almost scared, yourself, is really creepy.
That was all Fede. You wanted me to look like l wasn't in control,
but l wanted to be.
Yeah, there's a part of Olivia that's still there, and hating what she's doing,
and she's so scared of what she's doing.
Ouch.
This used to be the end of the scene.
And Sam Raimi asked us to keep going. He said, "This has to keep going."
This is the coolest effect because this wasn't CGl and l don't understand it.
-This is Lou being a magician. -Yeah, being a magician.
Yeah, of course, that was so tricky, but you did a great job.
All he's doing is just sliding his fingers over the real thing,
but the thing is stuck to his eye, so he just puts pressure at the end and pulls it out.
-This is all reshoot. -Yeah.
The guy is just flicking blood at me every time l hit that thing.
-So cool. -That scream is so good.
She tried to kill me.
The scream at the end.
So everyone actually kills each other. Mia never kills anybody in this movie.
Yeah, that's the whole beauty of the story, l guess,
Mia, in a way, she's the only innocent person.
She's a victim all the way. She doesn't really kill anybody.
-Duct tape fixes everything. -Ouch.
So that's a contact with the blood around it?
That's a chest piece, right?
That's my fake buff chest.
You all did it great, l mean, l was really so impressed with
the great job you did acting scared in despair.
Like in this moment, it's so hard to really
get that on camera, right? The real fear.
There's a pump going in my chest. And it would actually pump out that blood.
Whenever l looked down, it really felt like it was actually there.
That was the best part of doing it practically.
l think for the story it really helps this scene,
to show that in this movie, when you get hurt,
you really have to take care of the wounds.
We're really setting up the rules for the story.
lt's a very small wound, but he will die from it if they don't take care of it.
How come David is such a bad boyfriend?
Telling his girlfriend to go into the house.
There was more backstory, because the truth is that
they've been together for probably two, three months.
lt's not a long relationship, and that tells you a lot about David.
He's going to a detox of his sister, taking his new date.
That's how serious he takes the detox.
He doesn't really care, and that's why the character's gonna change so much.
So Natalie, she's the innocent that must suffer.
There's three rules that Sam Raimi always talks about, about horror,
and one of the rules is that the innocent must be punished.
And that's why Natalie's in the movie.
These colors are so beautiful.
l remember when we were shooting it,
l kept taking pictures because it looks like a painting,
all these soft pastels.
Yeah, she really blends with the back, right? lt's amazing.
She did an amazing job here, Elizabeth.
Yeah, 'cause l'm not doing... She's reacting to nothing.
Yeah, this is all a oner, just one shot.
She's doing a great job really reacting to every detail.
She's the most underrated one in this movie,
because she had so much blood on her with the nail gun stuff.
-lt was days and days... -She was in some of the best scenes.
l think it's just a shame that her character...
Because when we cut the movie, we end up getting rid of a couple of scenes,
just for the sake of story, and telling a sharper story,
and we end up losing a lot of Natalie's background.
But it was really a beautiful character.
She was somebody really good at heart that was trying to help David
through the whole thing.
But all she wanted was him to commit a little bit more with her, right?
So she's kind of a sacrificial lamb in David's story.
lt's when she died, l think, that David starts changing, right?
l love how we foreshadow that step, the breakaway.
l was crying blood in this scene, l don't know, you can't really tell,
but that was in the script.
Yeah, l love that, you can see the bloody tears there in your eyes.
lt's, again, one of those decisions that the audience
always in the theater goes crazy about it.
Why Natalie goes down there.
But again, she's good at heart, she doesn't believe in...
There's nothing supernatural going on, she just thinks that something happened to Mia,
and now she's okay, so l think everybody will fall for it.
And Mia's in there a little bit right now, l think.
-The real Mia. -Yeah. Love this moment.
l did a version where l was spitting lots of blood, do you remember?
Yeah.
That's another way to show what we wanna do with this movie.
Most movies, this scene will end there.
When the person gets dragged into the cellar,
and then somebody else will find the body,
and you never know what happened down there.
So, when we were writing the script with Rodo,
we took a conscious decision of showing these moments.
Never hiding, yeah, they see her dragged to the cellar,
but then they show what happened down there.
-You're so scary here, Jane. -lt's my first sex scene.
Licking her leg.
lt was all you, and it was her real leg.
l was licking... This one was her stunt double's leg.
-Was it? -Yeah.
Oh, delicious.
The whole idea, of course, is that she's about to give her oral sex, right?
Yeah, "l can smell your filthy soul."
Yeah, l think that was the intention.
She's going for it, but Natalie stopped her just in time.
We really did these scenes on the steps, too, which were... She's in a terrible position.
Here we go, this is one of the most iconic moments of the film.
At one point it was really my tongue, and then it was a prosthetic tongue,
of my tongue, and someone's puppeteering it.
-lt looks so real. -This prosthetic looks so good.
Kiss me, you dirty cunt!
My favorite thing l've ever said.
This kiss, l was really suffocating her.
And she had to pinch me when she was suffocating, came out of her nose,
and she was choking. Yeah.
You had so much blood being pumped into the mouth.
Tube from my mouth, and then l would just spit it into hers.
This is another one of my favorite things l've said.
...come down here so l can suck your cock, pretty boy!
Mia's not here, you fucking idiot!
l think Shiloh was so scared.
Yeah, he didn't know. That was another thing.
l tried, particularly for David's character, l tried to keep him in the dark
about a lot of moments in the film so he could act even more surprised.
These Sam Raimi-type shots are so good, they're so good.
This is a great one. lt's, again, part of the backstory of Natalie.
David promised her that he was gonna take her home,
so now she's, like, begging him to take her back home.
The truth, they cannot leave even if they wanted.
l love this.
Was it your idea to have the eye closed like that?
Yeah, you really took care of that, because he got stabbed in that eye.
And so, on that eye, it's on the side.
ls that just you, there's no prosthetic covering your eye or anything?
No, there is a prosthetic on there.
-The eye? -Yeah, l mean, not on the eye, on the cheek.
Of course, this is a way for the Evil Dead fans of the original film,
trying to get rid of the idea that they're just waiting for...
l didn't want the audience to be waiting for him to burn the book,
and finish with it, so we tried to do that early on.
These shots of me in the cellar,
we did this for, l don't know, 1 5 minutes straight?
And l just sat down there and seizured.
And we set up a couple of different angles, and it was way later in the shoot,
and then we put them in here and there.
There's some translations, but... Just scattered notes.
There's so many things in that book, so many notes and things.
Even things that referred to the original film.
So many small stories and subplots written on the book.
Wardrobe did such a good job,
it was so hard for them to keep the blood levels at the right spot.
They had so many different copies of all of our costumes, l think.
That's, of course, an homage to the poster of the original film, right? The girl.
l wonder if that was your hand, just there.
Yeah, there, that was good hand-acting, right?
-That was good hand-acting. -This is the most disgusting thing to me.
How did you get that stuff to come out of there?
That was great makeup. Jane O'Kane, she did all the makeup effects,
and the prosthetics, she did an amazing job.
Yeah, this is like a bladder, under the hand.
And she was pressing the bladder and the blood came. Look at that black pus.
l remember there used to be something happening here that we never shot.
She was actually going to take a worm out of her hand.
That's what it looks like.
The idea was that she was gonna see a little head coming out,
and she was going to take that, and she was gonna pull a black worm out of her hand.
But then again, we didn't want to be too supernatural, too obvious.
And of course, for David's story, l love this moment.
He's not ready to believe in the supernatural, right?
l think after what's gonna happen now, he's gonna believe,
but he's not gonna be ready to act, to walk the path.
Eric! We're not going to fucking kill anybody!
Oh, yeah, he didn't have a voice that day.
'Cause we were screaming so much.
What about those dead cats down in the basement?
This is a cool moment.
l don't know how the audience reacts to this moment, but there's really, like...
Because, in a way, we're saying that maybe David's theory is right,
because he's saying, "Well, maybe there's a virus." Because Eric makes all the sense
by saying that, but right now, we're gonna show that
there's actually something spreading from the bite.
That's something l love, what the story does.
lt really confuses people, it makes you feel one way, and it changes all the time.
How did you do this?
We had real makeup, we did a lot of different makeup stages,
and we were revealing... The visual effect would just reveal real makeup.
We didn't want to do any CGl, so we did real makeup, and we'd reveal it
with a simple visual effect.
That was Liz doing some cool hand-acting, too.
Honestly, that was scary.
She did a great job with the crazy hand-acting.
Here, l remember, l wanted you to say, "We're all gonna be dead by dawn."
Just like in Evil Dead ll, but everybody told me that
nobody says "dead by dawn" anymore.
That's a weird way to talk, and l wouldn't have put it anyways.
lt would've sounded like such an homage, that's all.
-l love this. -l'm such a perv.
l think, for me, this was the scariest scene to shoot.
As a director, l felt, like, "Oh, my God, we're gonna remake
"the girl in the cellar moment."
lt's such an iconic moment from the original film, for me.
But l think we ended up doing a great job.
Because, here, you really deliver.
So good.
-Again, l love this one. -That's not her arm.
No, everything you see is real, that's what l love about this.
There's no visual effects in this shot, none whatsoever.
-Everything you see is... -lt's so good to hear her say that.
But it's the other girl's arm, right?
-Yes. -Oh, this blood shot out from below?
Oh, where she looks like she's gonna throw up.
The explosion, l love, this one here. lt's coming.
-lt's got a big explosion up here. That one. -Oh, God!
The bone breaking.
The blood shorts out the house.
Another thing l love about the nature of the story, how it keeps going.
-l was supposed to come in and puke. -l love this moment.
Poor Liz.
That shot of the arm was just one day of shooting, just one shot.
Liz was so destroyed, like this is not Liz acting,
this is Liz trying to survive the moment.
She's so good in it. The arm falling.
We finished that day, and l went to the kitchen when everybody had left,
and Liz was still there, against that fridge.
She was looking so out of it.
-Duct tape? -Duct tape.
More duct tape.
What happened to all of Olivia's medical supplies?
-Just duct tape. -They ran out of all the bandage there.
We only had two times to do this.
lt was the best line in the movie.
Which actually, of course, is a quote from Evil Dead II, right?
Yeah, Bruce, Ash is looking at Ash in the mirror,
and suddenly, he comes out of the mirror and said,
"We just cut our girlfriend in half. Does that sound fine?"
The rules, the new rules, this is again,
another example of how we tried to keep the mythology of the original film alive
by incorporating new ideas.
Now we know that we're still cutting them into pieces,
body dismemberment is still a choice to save the dead, l'd say.
To save their souls, but we had two more,
the live burial and the purification by fire.
You can hear in the audio, too, voices from the original film.
l love that, l never realized that.
Why did you cut out him going back to burn Olivia?
l think it was just trying to tell a sharper story, again.
l just felt that the whole journey of David, is he has to decide,
he has to man up, and do what he had to do,
the whole theme of the movie is that.
Sometimes there's things you just cannot avoid, and you have to do.
The whole thing for us... l love that line. lt was all about,
sometimes the only way out of a problem is through it.
So, they're trying to avoid it, and David is trying to avoid the inevitable,
and then he has to realize that he has to do what he has to do,
but the most dramatic idea behind it was the idea that he's gonna have to kill his sister.
But Olivia's already dead, and even, by that point, Natalie's already dead, too.
So it wasn't so dramatic to see him just burn and cut in half the dead body.
Right.
Every time you laugh, it's so satisfying for the audience,
they just need that one second where there's a smile.
And they can relax, and then, it's back to being really scary.
l love the chemistry between these two guys.
Because in a way, l think the two characters are so different,
but also the actors are so different, and the way they're approaching the characters,
so l love the balance between Eric's character,
and how abrasive he is, and how out of control,
-and how David is always more grounded. -Oh, shit! Sorry.
Here we go.
That was, again, like, five days of shooting for this scene, l guess.
-Yeah. -Oh, God.
The nails in the face.
Again, everything is practical here,
so the nails are real, there was a makeup thing on your hand, right, Lou?
Yeah, those were real, it was magnets on both sides that kept those things on.
So, we will reveal them. This is practical, too,
we had a whole system there, coming out. They almost got you actually.
Yeah.
And then, l remember, we came up with the hand right there,
we just thought of it, like, "Could you just
"put your hand on it, like that just happened?"
She'll nail his hand to the chest.
And it's just another magic shot where we just did it ourselves,
taking the nail out and making it look nasty.
l love this, because everybody reacts so strongly to this shot
and this is you just holding the nail between your three fingers.
Just pulling it out.
The best pain moments are the most simplest effects.
This was trickier, this was a prosthetic leg in front of him, and he's pulling the nail out.
l love this moment, he used to love her and now he's like,
"Where the fuck did she go?"
Take it before she does.
l love this moment here.
The reflection on the TV, there.
My aunt, she used to have that same TV, that's why it's in the movie.
lt's a classic Philips from the '80s.
There you go.
-This is a big "ouch" moment, for me. -Oh, God.
This is one of my favorite shots in the movie, this one here,
camera reacting to every blow.
And again, that was a great idea from Bryan Shaw, the editor of the film.
He came up with the idea of trying to keep Mia alive during the whole scene,
so we will cut to Mia all the time during the scene.
And she's reacting to the things that are happening upstairs, that's something l love.
The sound is awesome here, too, you can hear the nails bouncing all around the room.
-Oh, no, the finger, oh, no. -The finger.
-Oh, the finger! -Oh, God.
l don't know how you did that.
lt's an on-camera effect. We did just a cut. We had a fake hand, and a real one,
and we just cut with the shake of the camera.
-Very '70s, too, the blowup, the zoom-out. -Yeah!
That was just me, throwing the fake hand against the wall,
over, and over, and over.
This is my favorite part,
-my favorite visual effect, just so well done. -God, with the blood gushing out of her arm.
Something that... l feel like l've never seen this before.
Somebody with no arms looking at you, and talking, and bleeding in front of you.
l remember it was so funny that l started laughing at the end,
-and you're like, "Do that, do the laugh." -Yeah.
Because we changed her line, this is a line that was in the script,
Natalie used to say, just, "Why are you hurting me?"
And then l went to Natalie, and l whisper, l went to Liz, and l whisper in her ear,
"Can you change that line and say, 'Why does my face hurt?"'
And she changed it on the go.
And l think when we cut, you, Lou, you started laughing out of your mind.
l just started cracking up.
-And we kept that in the scene. -"My face hurts."
That's, again, a great example of how both of the characters are so different.
Eric is so out of his mind, and David, he's so grounded to what's going on.
l think that makes for a great balance of horror and craziness.
So outrageous, yeah.
lt's good, because people are so scared,
when Natalie's dragging herself towards David, people are...
-Yeah. They think she's gonna wake up. -Yeah. They think she's gonna come back.
But something that we knew when we were writing the film,
we didn't want them to do anything too supernatural, so we figured,
"Well, if they have to bleed to death, they will die."
This is the last scene l shot. This is my last day.
-You came back for this, right? -l think so.
-No, this was just the last day. -No, this was the last day. Yeah, it's true.
There was another version of this line which l loved,
"l don't want to be fucked in the ass by the devil."
This is when David makes a decision.
This is the "all is lost" moment,
he lost everything, now he has to do what he has to do.
Yeah, because his whole journey is, like, first he has to know the path.
After Natalie cuts her arm off,
he understands that this is real, and there's something he's gonna have to do about it.
So, like, in every good story, knowing the path
doesn't mean that you're ready to walk the path.
And now, he is ready to walk the path. And he's ready to do it.
And this, of course, l love how the lullaby comes back.
Because for us in the story, David is about to do something
he already did in the past,
which is, forsaken Mia completely. lt's like leaving her behind
in order to save himself. That's David's journey.
He did that in the past, when he decided to run away from home,
and just leave Mia with their crazy mother.
Just to save himself, he sacrificed Mia in the past.
And now, he's about to do the same thing again.
And that's why he ended up not doing it, l guess, because when she starts singing,
he has a moment of clarity, here.
Although, the audience are just waiting for him to burn the hell out of Mia.
l think it's a good thing, because, at the end, we show the audience,
there was another way. But l love this moment here.
When he realized that he's about to do the same thing again,
the same mistake he did, and he walks out of it.
l can't do this.
Yeah, the Act 3 sort of twist to this movie is so good.
And the burning bush becomes a biblical reference.
-Of Moses seeing the... -We really had a burning bush, too.
Yeah, yeah, we did it, we burned it for real.
Chainsaw teaser.
This is again an homage of Evil Dead ll, particularly when
Ash is putting together the chainsaw and the hand.
There's a crazy montage, just like this one.
With all the, kind of, crazy MacGyveraction.
l love this setup, the burning tree, the house.
This was a very scary day for Shiloh.
lt was just Shiloh in the woods, and l remember
that l pulled Shiloh out of the set, and l sent him to the woods by himself,
and l asked him to stay there for 1 5 minutes, alone in the woods,
in the middle of nowhere, and then come back and shoot the scene.
So he was there, everybody was waiting just for him to come back.
He came back out of the woods scared to death, because he was alone for a long time.
lt was a very creepy woods in which he shot that scene.
Those woods were really, really creepy.
And we were on an ancient burial ground, weren't we?
-Yeah, we were on a burial ground. -Yep.
This is one of those scenes, also,
where Shiloh didn't really know what was going to happen.
We'd just prepare all these jumps in the cellar, and he was going down there...
But that shot where the thing disappears, like, you show it, and then it's gone,
-it's so sick. -This is him,
he knows something's gonna happen, but he doesn't know where, or what.
Suddenly, the thing jumps up.
This is Shiloh being scared for real, like, jumping around.
He doesn't know what's going on.
And the voices...
Actually, remember that you can hear all of your voices there.
lt starts with Olivia,
with Jessica, you're saying, "Murderer," l think.
That's right. ln ADR, you had us say a bunch of random things.
And we heard them there, during that scene.
The water. That dirty, dirty water.
The audience hates when they see that flooded cellar.
-Yeah. -They go like, "Oh, no, the water! No. Why?"
This is one of my favorite parts of the movie.
This homage to Bruce Campbell being beaten the crap out of.
-Yeah. -lt's so good.
Originally, this scene used to be crazier.
All the cellar was flooded to the neck. That was the way it was written.
Oh, really? l don't remember that. That's scary.
There was so much water down there, but then it was just tricky to tell the story.
-So, this, l'm on a track. -Yeah.
-And l fell one time. -Yeah.
Some of these... lf you, like, pause this, l look so terrifying.
-Oh, l know. My God, yeah. Tell me about it. -At this point.
That was the only moment, l think, when l got scared of you during the editing.
l was cutting this with the editor.
The editor went home, and l just stayed for a little extra time, watching your footage.
lt was just disturbing.
This was me drowning the camera. We were under the water, and l was holding...
Because the way the water deforms your face...
Because l decided to have a little water on the lens so it will deform your face.
lt was just so creepy.
And it was Gareth, Shiloh's stunt double, being thrown against the walls.
-And here he comes. -And l get stabbed one last time.
You always get a cheer out of it. ls it a cheer, or a laugh?
A cheer when Eric shows up, and a laugh when he removes the box cutter.
Look at you! You have been through hell. That's crazy.
-And the razor just stays in... -Yeah, the blade is still in.
That's disgusting.
-That was not me. That was my stunt double. -l love this.
l have a lot of fond memories of this part of the shooting.
Because when we got to this stage is when all of you guys were on the "whatever" stage.
l would tell you something,
and you would go, like, "Yeah, let's do it. Please, just, let's do it."
-l love this scene. -So sweet.
lt's a tricky scene.
lt shows you how Eric is showing so much love, but David is, like, he checked out.
Yeah, and he just puts him in the water.
lt was a good thing that Shiloh,
he thought, like, "l cannot cry or just...
"Things started happening, and l'm about to kill my sister."
He's about to bury his sister alive, and it's just another thing that's going on.
And l think he's probably gonna regret that in the future,
that's why, l think, they have that last moment later.
-This water was so disgusting. -Was the drool just by chance?
l can't believe you actually did that.
-That was you. -This was so disgusting.
l think he stayed in the water for a minute and a half.
After we stepped in that water for three months.
Yeah, you kept your breath for a long time.
l didn't want to do it again. There was no way.
-No, l know. -One take.
-By some kind of miracle... -We worked in that water all day.
Everybody's stepping in that water, going to the bathroom, and going back to that water,
so imagine that.
The red dress.
-This looks like Beetlejuice. -lt does, a little bit.
You can see the dress a lot.
A lot of people said, "Where'd the dress come from?"
But you can actually see the dress on the...
When she walks into the room for the first time,
when they enter the house, you can see the dress there.
That's really me.
And you can actually see a picture of the mother with the dress.
That's you.
l'm really getting buried alive with a plastic bag around my face.
-l love this one here. -Oh, yeah.
This is you shoveling, though, Fede, l think. Oh, no, not yet.
This was my audition scene. lmagine auditioning for this.
Yeah, that's crazy.
l had an oxygen tube behind my ear.
lt's real. We kept mostly all the production audio.
You did some ADR, but l really wanted to keep all the production audio,
and this is one of those.
l look so deformed, somehow.
People wonder if that's really me, but it's just me with my demon makeup.
The bag, l think, really helped to...
The makeup is there, your face is still deformed,
but because of the plastic bag, you cannot really tell,
so you don't know if she's her or not.
This is the scariest scene in the movie for me.
The cool thing about this, is that, finally, Mia is telling David what she feels.
She had to get possessed, in a way, to be honest with her brother.
Yeah, this is something she should have said.
Well, of course, she couldn't, but she should have said this in the beginning of the movie.
l think Shiloh did a great job here. You can really feel for him.
That's one of my favorite shots.
-You can hear the voice of the devil. -Looks like a skull.
Yeah. Looks really like a skull. lt looks like you're bald.
-That laugh. -That laugh is disgusting.
l was supposed to redo it in ADR, and l couldn't.
l couldn't figure out where it came from on the day.
And this was Fede covering me, and l'm really inhaling that plastic.
And once l was covered completely, l had to push myself out.
My whole body was covered at that point.
This scene is one that l wish would be longer.
l think if there's an extended version, you'll hear more of David's apology.
lt was very important David apologize.
So, for some of these shots, l was actually under the ground in a box.
-David had to move to the top, too. -Right there, you're...
When David is talking to the ground, l didn't want Shiloh to talk just to the ground.
So, l thought it was great to have you down there, and he was nervous about it, too.
Shiloh, the actor, he was nervous about you being down there,
so it helped his anxiety and his nervousness, as he's apologizing.
Love how the audience hates this. They're like, "Why is he digging her up?"
-l think that's a dummy. -No, no. lt's a person.
-Oh, really? That has to be a dummy. -That was actually Crystal. That was Crystal.
That's Crystal. She was really also under the earth.
She had to keep her breath, and they took her out.
Such a silly idea.
-The music here is amazing. -lt's amazing.
lt's so beautiful.
-Ouch. -Oh, God!
It's Pulp Fiction meets MacGyver.
lt's real.
lt's such an idea that was insane, but actually, we did a lot of research on that.
We didn't want to just come up with a crazy idea for a...
l have some problem to pronounce that word, "defibrillator."
So we did research, and we find out on some site online, and we talk about it,
and you can actually put it together with
a car battery, and a capacitor, and a lot of things.
And you put it together, you can charge the thing with the battery,
-and you will get a nasty discharge. -So this is where...
He's a mechanic, so he knows about that thing, right?
David's supposed to be a mechanic.
Since he apologizes, he gets a gift from the supernatural.
Yeah, of course. Well, not only that. He fulfills his journey
by apologizing to his sister, saying what he should have said at the beginning.
But also, he's walking the walk, he's really going through the whole journey.
He really did what he had to do.
He risked the life of his sister, he put her underground, he took the punishment.
And that's why l'm free of my burns, then?
Yeah, he gets her back as a gift, l think. lt's, like, he gets a reward out of that.
l think in every supernatural story, there's always a bad side, and the evil side.
But if they're supernatural, there must be a good side, too.
So, l think whoever is the good fairy of David,
and on the whole moment, what would give her back.
l mean, the book says very clearly
that if you bless them through any of those three ways, you will save them, right?
l don't know if it was too clear. lt was mostly confusing.
-Sometimes, contradictory. -Exactly.
But they don't want to give an answer.
l think you can think that she came back because the defibrillator worked,
or you can think that, just because he fulfilled his destiny, right?
-David did everything he had to do. -l like these lines here,
because it shows, again, that Mia actually was aware of everything that happened.
She had to watch it all, so, in a way, she was being tortured the whole time,
because she was in there somewhere.
lt's their story going full circle.
She asked him in the beginning, please not to leave her, and he fulfilled that promise.
-But, David, he still has one more step to go. -Yeah. Yeah.
He's beyond redemption, l think, after all he did.
And when we find out about his past, and everything he did,
and how he really forsaked Mia, and he escaped from the reality of his family.
l think at the end, it didn't matter how much he will apologize,
he will have to pay the ultimate price.
lf he would've left that picture, he'd have been fine.
Who knows?
And there you go.
What l love about your Deadite, Lou, is that you're so still.
l mean, there's a couple twitching,
but there's a point where you're just standing there, and it's so scary.
Yeah. Ouch.
-That was an original kill. -Right here, that's so terrifying to me.
The music here is doing an amazing job. The anvil. The anvil hits.
-And originally, it was a heart stab, or... -A what?
Then they made it a neck, the last minute? Wasn't it a different kind of stab?
lt was going to be Olivia's piece of glass, the shard.
You can hear the siren.
Yeah, but we thought each one of them should have their own weapon,
and that's the thing Eric was using to cut the book open.
Mia's reaction is great, 'cause it's actually the first time she sees a Deadite.
-Yeah, you're doing a great job here. -ls very scared.
For the first time, she's seeing a Deadite. Yeah.
Here, take the keys. Look at me, let's go.
Come on. Let's go.
Yeah, in a way, she's hypnotized, because she's been stuck as a demon for so long,
and when she sees it, it makes her freeze.
There's another place where l bruised my arms.
Yeah.
-l went crazy. -Yeah.
This used to be a longer scene, too, this moment here.
Yeah, there's a lot to this.
Yeah, we were going to give more closure to Eric and David's story.
That's probably gonna be in some extended version in the future.
You look so scary.
And here it comes, yeah, like, he...
-The abomination is coming. -ls that your voice?
Yeah, it is. lt is Lou's voice altered.
That was a real fire explosion, on set.
l love how the whole story's upside down, now.
lt's only Mia, the scary girl, she's the victim of the whole thing again.
Yeah, it really switches, the hero switches so many times in this thing.
But it's a good thing. l think it was the nature of the story, that
after everybody died, and everybody paid for their sins,
l think, Mia, she's the only innocent one at the end.
And so she had to stay alive, l think, at least for this moment.
So, there's a skull there, with the cords, have you spotted the skull?
There's a skull that is inspired by the original film,
where Ash goes for the necklace,
and there's a skull created by the chain of the necklace.
That's a great shot.
lt took a long time. lt was amazing.
lt had to be by chance, 'cause they were spinning it.
Yeah, it was so tricky.
That was a great job of the grip department.
They came up with this wheel that would fall from the sky, and go to here.
-This was so beautiful! -This whole ending is...
So Randal, the actor who was playing the abomination with my face on his face,
was actually under the ground, and there was this soft floor that he was birthed from.
And when l watched it happen for the first time, l felt like that.
Actually.
lt was so creepy.
So that's a 60-something-year-old man with my face on him, just so everyone knows.
l love it.
-Wasn't he wearing a thong, too? -Yeah.
Just a thong?
-And this was all-night shoots. -l remember hearing about that.
And this rain is tempera paint and water, and there was all these rigs on the trees,
and that glass actually broke, all this happened.
-l really fell out of the car. -There's this thing, the burning hand.
l think when they touch each other, it burns.
She came out from hell, right?
And this foxhole was a real foxhole that was really tiny, that l had to crawl all the way into,
and Luke, our AD, had to pull me out by my feet.
And then there was another one in the stage.
lt was so demanding for everybody, the whole scene.
Because it was raining blood for real. There were sprinklers everywhere.
-Everyone's clothing and skin was stained. -Throwing blood on everybody.
So, everybody was wrapped in plastic, trying to not get stained with blood.
lt was just impossible. There was so much blood everywhere.
They had a watering-can of blood, all the stuff on the stage.
Like, right here, they would pour it straight on my head.
l love this moment.
lt's such a long, tense moment for the audience.
-You know he's gonna come back. -Where the hell is he?
ls he coming from outside, or from the hole?
l love this tease.
And then, finally, the chainsaw.
This is always a cheer moment from the audience, when they see the chainsaw.
-This is when Mia starts to become a badass. -Yeah.
l love that this is a really slow transformation.
But Mia's been through a lot and that's... l think for any great story,
you need to introduce a character in search of more in the beginning,
and at the end, that character has to change 1 00%, right?
She changed so much from who she is in the beginning.
-Someone strong and... -So for this, l actually did that.
And then Randal had to do it, and then they would put my face on his face.
lt was a very fancy visual effect. Again, no CGl.
lt was really, a real face, put on a real body. There's nothing made on a computer.
This was a tiny, tiny little nook that l had to squeeze myself into.
And when l get my leg stabbed,
they just found someone else's prosthetic arm on set that l had to tape to my leg.
And l had to do it because l had to do it in that space, and it turned out...
l went into the prosthetic room, and l find out that's Natalie's elbow.
-Right there. -That thing over there.
And once we did it, everyone on set was, like...
Again, in another homage to the original films,
there's a moment in Evil Dead ll where Ash starts running around the house,
and he's running between the walls of the house, which is such a bizarre thing.
This is almost kind of that same idea, like, trapped between the walls of the house.
This was the hardest stuff l had to do, the whole movie.
This was, like, 4:00 in the morning,
and Fede had to be like, "Jane, wake up. We're making a movie."
"Wake up."
But it really helped to show exhaustion, 'cause you're so exhausted.
Yeah. And we had gone under the car.
That was a tricky shot.
l wanted to have a firing crutch at some point, on Randal's... On the abomination.
Fede kept telling me this was my Bruce Willis moment, to pump me up.
l love this moment.
lnstead of being a creature, like, a magic creature,
he's moving like a drunk wife-beater, like he's gonna beat up his wife
and he's coming after her.
Through the process, we went through a lot of different versions of the abomination.
lt's so satisfying to do that.
So this car was on some crazy contraption where it was really tilting like that.
-Yeah. -lt was so crazy.
This is crazy, over here.
l remember one version of the abomination was all of us.
Yeah, all of you mixed together.
This is a great pain shot, you see the blood.
-l love this shot. -Here's the siren.
When you see that blood coming out of the side,
that's me pulling the prosthetic, l think.
Because we didn't have a lot of shots at it.
We knew that we had just one or two shots of the ripping arm thing,
-so l decided to do it myself. -l'm completely covered in blood.
lt's you again, your face. l love this moment, too.
Oh, no. She can't reach it.
The abomination.
And here you go.
Again, this is me throwing from the prosthetic, to make sure that we get it right.
-Oh, God. -That's so graphic.
Great job from Roger Murray's department, creating that thing.
-And this idea, here, was that... -Visually, it's astonishing, yeah.
Yeah, that she's in ultimate shock.
There's so much real things going on. That's why l think it's so powerful.
You can see the hot breath coming out of her, the real fire in the back.
This is my favorite moment.
-Just stop on the chainsaw. -Stick the nub in.
We did this shot for maybe a minute straight. There was blood coming from everywhere.
-And after we cut, the whole crew cheered. -Yeah.
You can see the blood dripping down your dress.
There's so much blood coming down.
And that's me screaming, "Die." You can't even really tell.
That that was a pig's back that we found.
Cut the face in two.
So epic.
-So l actually had to do that, too. -That's your face actually, blinking.
This was a really tricky one, also, to come up with, how to do the sinking in the ground.
We had a pool on the ground filled with the blood water,
and the thing will sink into the blood, going back to hell.
Evil Mia is gone.
That's also a great moment.
Again, we didn't want to burn the house for real,
so we had all the fire shot against a black screen, and composed it into the house.
Real fire, not CG fire.
And finally, conclusion.
l think it's definitely something that l...
l'm happy how she changed during the story,
and whoever we met in the beginning, she's a different person now,
and you can feel she's stronger now, even though she's been through all these things.
She defeated her evil side, right? Her bad side.
There was a whole idea with the script, that she's trying to quit drugs,
and she finally accomplished it in a way. She had to survive two days, and she did.
This is a beautiful shot.
And it wasn't the original ending.
We have a whole ending that we shot, besides this.
-Did, right? The road, you mean. -Yeah.
lt's actually the poster of the film, the one-sheet.
We had to wait for those exact moments in the trees, for the rays.
Those are real. The God rays are completely real.
Again, no CGl, so we wanna wait for the real God rays to come through the forest.
And the book's still there.
That's actually a real shot. We did the tilt down, and everything.
Boom.
-There you go. Evil Dead. -That's so sweet.
So, that's it. Thank you so much for listening.
-Thank you. -Thank you.
Thank you for watching.
-Maybe l should comment on this. -Yeah, l like the credits.
This has been done by a friend of mine back in Uruguay, actually.
He decided to put together cool end titles,
like, it's kind of a gore-fest.
And also, conceptually,
there's supposed to be all little moments of things that actually happened in the movie,
but you missed them, right?
So, these are details of close-ups of things that happened during the film.
This is all real shots, shot at very high speed?
Yeah.
Ale jandro Damiani, he's the director of this sequence, and did a great job.
That's a reference to the original film, too, the little bulb with blood in it.
And the music is just amazing, another good example of Roque's amazing soundtrack.
He called it "A Tango from Hell."
Wanted to bring something from South America, and it's a classic tango rhythm,
mixed with the whole craziness of a horror movie soundtrack.
You can actually see glimpses of the book, and all the weapons from the movie.
Some of the glimpses of the book, and the abomination,
and the drawings on the book.
-And now that's it. -Yeah!
Good work, guys.
We made that.
I believe I have made a significant find in the Candarian Ruins...
a volume of ancient Sumerian burial practices and funerary incantations.
It is entitled "Naturom Demonto."
Roughly translated, "Book of the Dead."
The book is bound in human fIesh and inked in human blood.
It deals with demons, demon resurrection...
those forces which roam the forest and dark bowers of man's domain.
The first few pages warn that these enduring creatures...
may lie dormant but are never truly dead.
They may be recalled to active life through the incantations presented in this book.
It is through recitation of these passages that the demons are given license...
to possess the living.
I have seen the dark shadows moving in the woods...
and I have no doubt that whatever I have resurrected through this book...
is sure to come calling for me.
Groovy.
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