FAMOUS DIRECTORS.


SAM RAIMI INTERVIEW
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SR: When I saw " The Hills Have Eyes ", one of the most gut-wrenching
pictures I have ever seen in my life. They have this scene where these
"Hill-people" came into this trailer, completely massacre the people
that live in this trailer , they take a parakeet , they bite it's head off
and drink it like a glass of blood, and then they come across this baby
and wonder if they should raise it as one of their own or eat the baby,
because baby is good meat, and It's such a horrible scene that you're
thinking "eat the baby"- don't raise it as one of your own, please don't
do that that's much more heinous.
Anyways after they leave the people come back to this trailer and they
see, they view all this carnage. One of the things they see is the Jaws
poster , thats like,been ripped in half. So I took it to mean that Wes
Craven - the director of the movie was saying "Jaws was just pop-
horror what I have here is real horror, It's ripped that baby In half!".
So as a joke and a homage to Wes Craven I took a Hills Have Eyes
poster and in Evil Dead I put it in the cellar -one of the sets, and
ripped it In half to say " No Wes your picture is just pop-horror
this is real horror" - but just as a joke of course.
Now Wes Craven has responded in his picture by putting a clip of
Evil Dead 1 as a horror movie -in a scene- that a character is watching
in his movie "Nightmare On Elm St." I guess to say "No, your movie
Evil Dead is just a horror movie ,Nightmare On Elm St. is real
horror". So I'm not sure where ( laughs) I'm gonna go from there
I'm kinda running out of ideas but,ah we'll figure something out.

NAR: Raimi tried his hand as an actor in " Thou Shalt Not Kill(...Except)."

>cuts to movie scene<

Raimi stars as the leader of a cult , whose disturbed family kidnaps
babies and barbecue's family pets.


KP: ( The movie scene is hilarious considering the content of violence
and gore , filmed in true Raimi style.)


SR: The best way to watch a horror movie I think, Is to see it in a full
crowd, because you get this energy going, where the audience is
collectively afraid and it spreads throughout the crowd like wildfire,
If it's working and if it's a good scare and it's working! the audience
will shriek, they'll shriek their heads off.

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