Production
CLICK HERE FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THE FILM'S - 'SPECIAL
EFFECTS '
This part of the site will be divided into two sections.
FIrst we will deal with the production of the film and then we'll look the
larger and more complicated area of the special effects involved.
| Production Compnay: |
DDLC Corporation / Universal
Pictures |
| Budget: |
$12,000,000 |
| Distributors: |
In the US: Universal Pictures
In
Europe: DDLC Corporation |
| Location filming: |
Acton, Palmdale, California: the
"Lilac Capital of California" |
| Duration: |
85 minutes, colour |
| Year: |
1992 |
| Shooting schedule: |
Began early summer 1991 unitl end of
July 1991 |
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| US GROSS: |
$11,250,000 |
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Shooting:
- Raimi was shooting night sequences during the summer
when darkness only lasts for around five hours. At several points during the
final battle at the castle you can see the 'Blue Gel' of the dawn creeping
over the sky
- Raimi had big trouble with the
horses, "They're big scene stealers....They learn a word like 'action';
they anticipate it. So if you've shot some big 'charge' scene, and now you're
shooting dialogue, when you call 'action' they start charging."
Notes:
- Bruce Campbell began scouting castle locations as early
as late 1990
- The original plan was shoot on location at
a castle in England or Spain
- The actor who played the 'Deadite pit monster' was Bill
Bryant who also portrayed the STAY PUFT MARSHMALLOW man in
'Ghostbusters'
- versions of the film script were written
as early as 1988