Technical
and physical effects In
order to handle these effects Bruce campbell hired Atlanta effects
man Verne Hyde. Hyde's initial budget based on the script was $75,000. This increased in January 1986
dramatically due to revenue recieved from video sales of the first
Evil Dead.
Hyde fashioned
several camera techniques and devices to aid Raimi in capturing
the shots he wanted, these were:
"Chainsaw!"
- Pic. 1 Hyde also customised Ash's chainsaw to achieve the necessary
action without the gamble of using a real chainsaw.
- A tobacco
smoker was used to simulate the smoke from the chainsaw, a small
plastic tube was run up Bruce Campbell's leg into the saw.
- The
Gasoline engine was replaced with a 12-volt motor, to provide the
room for Ash to insert his arm after he cuts off his hand
- The teeth were filed off for safety
"Blood
Flood!" - Pic. 2 Hyde and his crew were responsible for the main shots during
this scene, where a rush of blood shoots out of a wall at Campbell.
880 gallons of differing fluids were pumped onto Campbell in 44
seconds. Hyde himself explains, "Sam wanted
it [the fluid] to start out red then quickly change colours until
it was black."
In order to achieve the scene:
- eight 110-gallon
holding tanks were used to hold the fluid
- the tanks forced the fluid through one-and-a-half inch tubing
with two gasoline powered pumps
- Campbell was hit with the equivalent force
of a fire hose!!!!
"Flying
eyeball!" - Pic. 3 To achieve the improvised shot of the flying Henrietta
eyeball, Hyde had to develop a new technique to accomplish the shot.
Hyde mounted the "eyeball" (a painted ping-pong ball provided
by KNB Efx) onto a small motor that would spin it, the motor was
then attached to a wand that was bolted directly to the camera.
The camera was then panned around quickly and the "eye"
turned with it.
Chainsaw (Pic. 1)
Bloodflood (Pic. 2)
Flying Eyeball (Pic. 3)
Make-up
effects -
Out of the 1,200 shots in the film Raimi and co-writer Scott Spiegel
had written 250 make-up effects.
- The bulk of the films make-up work was supervised by Mark Shostom
who divided out the duties between himself and the KNB Efx Group, that is - Rob Kurtzman, Greg Nictotero
and Howard Berger. They completed all their work
in 12 weeks and their budget was limited, "We had to stretch the dollar
as much as we could,"
said Berger. Berger later admitted that the budget was later stretched
by Raimi's effects requirements for his improvised scenes.
Their work would
continue on 'Army of Darkness', "I
did not think we would ever work that hard again on a movie, until
we started EVIL DEAD III!"
