"THE MAKING OF EVIL DEAD II THE GORE THE MERRIER" "WARNING The film you're about to see   contains the most horrifying thrills in the history of motion pictures!" "PLEASE DO NOT REVEAL THESE SECRETS" "Hi, I'm Robert Kurtzman." "Hi, I'm Howard Berger." "Greg Nicotero." "Take one." "Cassie, hands up." "And, action." "We worked under Mark Shostrom." "Howard and Greg had worked together before, and me and Howard worked   for Empire Pictures." "Very frightening, very scary." "But don't be alarmed." "Because you see, it's only a picture." "We met Sam Raimi on Evil Dead II." "This strange little guy came in with crazy hair." "A bedhead." "He came with Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell." "He added things, like putting on the witchy pooh chin on Bruce." "We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw." "Does that sound "fine"?" "It wasn't until we got to location that we started a friendship." "What're you doing here?" "We were shooting nights in the forest, on that terrible set." "It was 300 degrees." "We were puppeteering underneath." "Books, and deer heads." "In order to get to you, you can't hold me back." "Then I have to push to get to your head." "On Evil Dead II, Mark Shostrom was the boss." "We were there with Aaron Sims, Shannon Shea   and Mike Trcic." "They built everything." "My first day of work was around March 9, 1985." "We prepped at Mark Shostrom's studio in Pasadena until May 10." "We shipped everything to Wadesboro, North Carolina." "The Evil Dead prep is over." "We shot from May 20 through August." " Here we are." " Welcome to North Carolina." "The production was set up out of an old junior highschool." "They built the sets in the gymnasium." "This is evil hand grabbing face." "Very scary." "For Evil Dead II, Sam drew his own story boards." "We'd ask how a shot was to work." ""Didn't you see my story board?"" "I've recreated one of Sam's story boards." " You did a better job." " This is the evil hand." "You can see the clock and the doorway." "And that's the hand being possessed." "This is Bruce Campbell." "You got the furrowed brow." "Literally..." "Sorry Sam..." "These were the story boards we had." "He'd say, "Didn't you see my boards?" "Oh, yeah, the hand is evil."" "Roll, please." "Begin the bladderation." "Turn it a little faster." "Another thing we learned about Sam was his love for slapstick." "He's a big Three Stooges fan." "Gags were lifted directly out of Three Stooges episodes." "The adaptation of a Three Stooges scene I like..." "They're getting a little pissed, so they grab grapes: "Hit 'em, boys."" "They fire the grapes and go..." "Only, this is the horror version." "The scene where they jump on the trapdoor and the eyeball flies out   and goes into Cassie Wesley's mouth was a Three Stooges gag." "One of the funnier things of his sense of humor was..." "They had written a new scene." "Ash goes into the work shed   with Linda's severed head and puts it in a vice." "Then the door bursts open and Linda's torso comes in   with a chainsaw over its head." "I thought it would be really creepy   when we shot it." "We're about to shoot the Linda-chainsaw sequence." "She's going to come buzzing through the door there,   and then she'll come back to a point over here." " Where did he go?" "Down there." " A little film joke." "When the time came to shoot it, I realized..." "Sam went, "Bring the muppet in."" "We literally attached a plastic chainsaw to the top of the torso." " Somebody was up above..." " I was on a skateboard on my back." "I was above with monofilament, holding the chainsaw up." "So the door bursts open and this Kermit Muppet comes in." "I thought it wasn't as scary as I had imagined." "But then again, Sam wasn't going for all-out scare." "Howard and I still laugh about it." "We have your darling Linda's soul." "We did a face cast of Linda, Denise Bixler." "We had to do the make-up and the severed head and all that." " So she came." " Oh, God!" "It's like someone just spat in my ear." "We used alginate, which is a dental material." " This is disgusting." "So cold." " Mix it, cover her head." "And her body sections and all that." "We had to do a full upper torso nude cast, which was fun." "You missed the fun when they put vaseline and pam on my boobs." " They liked it a lot." " You liked it more." "I hate it!" "We molded that, and filled it with plaster." "We ended up with a plaster likeness of the actor." "We do more molds and pull out pieces that we need." "For the severed head, we needed a clay sculpture." "It's called a clay press." "Mike Trcic handled all the artwork." "We sculpted the head with a smile." "Sam wanted it like a china doll." "When her severed head's in the vice, there's a hole in the table." "The neck appliance was glued down   so it brought the ledge where it had been cut off out farther." "We tried to hide her neck and shoulders." "She had dentures,   contact lenses, sharp Barbarella-doll teeth." "When the head's lobbed off we use a material called 10/16,   a self-skinning urethane foam." "It's painted up, there was a wig on." "We put eyebrows and hair lines on." "For the decapitation we needed blood." "So we ran blood lines and made blood out of syrup and food coloring." "We rigged the head on set and lobbed it off with the shovel." "We had to roll the head directly on camera take after take." "Take two." "Ready, and action." "We were always aware of one thing:" "Red blood is bad." "Any time a character was killed, there was black blood, green blood   and yellow blood." "The consensus was that red blood would be bad for the Ratings Board." "So let's have different colors." "Even when Bruce chops his hand off,   we don't actually see it." "We sprayed blood on his face." "All that stuff was done to make it a little cartoony   for the Ratings Board." "But it was also the way Sam wanted it." "Any time I had the camera on Bruce and Sam, they'd say:" ""Hello, we're preparing a very scary scene."" "We're about to shoot a very dangerous scene." "So watch out." "They were hooking a cable to Bruce's chest to pull him out through a car." "We've attached a line to Bruce Campbell's throat." "I'll be lying on my stomach, and they'll hook me up through my skin." "I've got to go now." "We know this is very dangerous." "I hope you can survive this." "They built a box that protected the camera on a pole." "They'd ram it through the windshield, and it would come out over the hood." "A ram-o-cam." "Sam just loved to torture Bruce." "Bubble." "Bubble." "Now!" "If you watch any movie, Sam tortures Bruce at a moment's notice." "Now attack Bruce wildly." "In a lot of the video I shot you can see the rapport between them." "They always have a good time." "But when Bruce is propelled through the trees on the Sam-o-cam, " " Sam was the first one to smash Bruce with branches." "That was his nature." "He had slapstick but he was very mischievous." "He was like the kid in the candy store." "I think Teddy was tortured more." "Ted Raimi, Sam's brother." "He played in the Henrietta monster suit." "We had him in that full suit, full prosthetics, contact lenses." "The first thing we shot was him bursting out of the sand." "He got sand in his eyes, and he was screaming." "And Sam said, "Don't be a baby, you're fired."" "He tormented him." "You did great on all accounts." "Imagine being completely encased, so your body can't breathe." "How does it feel to be stuck in that costume?" "It's inexplicable, beyond your wildest nightmares." "It was incredibly grueling." "We'd take off his latex feet   and pour out an inch of sweat." "It was white because of the powder." "We had to powder his body." "This white, sweaty muck would just pour out." "He lost pounds and pounds daily." "Ted was the first actor we saw." "It took three months to do the make-up and the suit." "We had a fiberglass body of Ted Raimi." "As you see, we made a full body cast." "We did a polyfoam outer skin." "We didn't have an oven big enough to bake a full body cast." "So we did fiberglass molds on Henrietta, and a foam skin." "Underneath that we did a bean suit,   a bunch of sacks filled with lentils." "They hang in various areas." "Then our skin goes over that." "That way he gets the jiggly motion." "You gotta sit down." "There's lentil beans down here, what gives?" "Get your hands off me!" "We brought everything with us and Mark painted it in the shop." "We'd be on set and Mark was in the shop, painting." "We had two suits, and a dummy that got its head cut off." "Putting that together took about three months." " How many hours was it?" " Two hours." "I need you to bite and start pulling back when you feel you got a clump." "We did a reshoot where Bruce turns evil." "Sam wanted a transformation in the eyes." "Premorphing." "Bob built this oversized head of Bruce." "It had a liquid-filled eye, and then he injected milk." "Then it would cloud over." "I was the contact lens technician." "They had to rehearse without them,   so they could see where they had to go." "I'd run in, put their contacts in, and they'd do the scene." "But the contact lenses had no hole for them to see." "They were completely blind." "They'd rehearse, get the lenses in,   and then they'd have to act." "So, when they jerk   and don't seem to know where they're walking, they didn't know." "Especially the shot with Danny Higgs where Bruce pops up behind him." "You can see him feeling for where the actor's face is." "The scene where Bruce breaks the dishes   was one of the first ones we shot." "He did all his own stunts." "Like when he flips himself after the dish-breaking." "Bruce is the king of flipping himself." "And he's the king of acting in reverse." "He's the only guy that can do that." "It's perfect." "This is a plate shot." "Bruce is really involved with everything." "His look, his gadgets." "Peewee heads going down." "Bruce faces off with Henrietta and her head transforms." "We had the head on a big rod, and I was head-puppeting." "One time we cut a hole in the floor." "I had my hand through it." "It's where they lower the bucket over the hand." " Don't be afraid to hurt him." " Bruce kept stepping on my fingers." "When you're like this for 45 minutes, you're numb." "I said, "We should shoot this now." And Bruce said, "Can you feel that?"" "He stepped on my fingers constantly." "We cut holes in the floor when the evil hand's running around." "There were so many camera tricks and set pieces." "They built a piece of the floor where one edge was higher." "So when the camera shot it, you wouldn't see the hole." "We had actors with stump appliances." "When Linda's severed head falls into Bruce's lap   it comes to life, and she has her lines." "Hello, lover." "We had to work with the photographer and the art department." "We dropped a fake head into his lap." "When we cut over Bruce's shoulders, he was actually on his knees." "We had built a phony rocking chair and phony legs in pants,   so the actress could put her head up through a hole in the pants." "It looked like her head was in his lap but they're both on their knees." "So it looked like her head was alive in his lap." "You have to deal with the art department and the photographer   to make sure that we can't see her leg or her hand." "How was it, Cass?" "Was it good for you?" "It was." "Put it back in, boys." "This is how it works." "See that platform?" "They'll pull a rug full of leaves with Cassie's head over the opening   to make it seem like the ground below her moves." "Roll, please." "Keep clear of the carpet." "Hal Hide did all the physical effects:" "The blood,   bile out of the walls and the creaking doors." "There was a gelatine head, which Bruce shoots at the end." "We shot that at 500 frames a second." "I'll swallow your soul..." "Swallow this." "Sam likes to come up with a lot of stuff on the set." "We always had to be ready for that." "If we had Ductape, Super Glue and monofilament, we could do anything." "In the shed, where Linda's head is put in a vice,   above the door there's a Freddie Krueger claw." "A little homage to Wes Craven." "When Cassie swallows the eyeball, it was a reverse shot." "We put the eye in her mouth on a piece of monofilament." "She pretended like she acted in reverse and the eyeball shoots out." "They flipped the film, and you see the eyeball go in." "But if you look closely, you can see the monofilament." "Even though it's blurry you can also see the rod." "My favorite thing is when Bruce is being chased by the evil force." "Sam puts a black frame in when we go inside the cabin." "If you look up, there's no roof, but there's cords and lights." "I think you even see somebody." " It's the first chase." " Ted Raimi is spinning around." "Grabbing Sarah Berry's hair, doing the whole routine." "If you look at his ass, you can see a giant tear." "You can see his ass and underwear." "Just for a second, but it's there." "In one scene Bruce grabs an axe and hacks the character to pieces." "We built a fiberglass jointed body we operated from underneath." "So we had a jointed body that you guys were shaking." "We had somebody with a hand through a hole in the floor, a leg." "Orginally, what happened was,   once he chops off the evil head, the body chases the characters   with a big slash across the head." "So we made this little brain   and these tiny cobweb things." "Unfortunately, there isn't any footage left of that scene." "Sam asked me at one time if I still had that "lost scene"." "The only place it exists is on the video that I shot on set." "ONLY EXISTING FOOTAGE OF ASH EATING A SQUIRREL" "Take two." "Ready." "Action." "Bill Paxton told me a story on "Simple Plan"." "James Cameron woke him up, honking the horn and saying:" ""Come on, you gotta see this movie." "Evil Dead II."" "They went to see it." "That's how Bill was introduced to Sam Raimi." "Cameron dragging him out." "We worked with Robert Rodriguez." "He found out we did Evil Dead II   and he went, "I didn't know that." "Yeah, here's all the video I shot."" "So we watched all six hours." "He said, "I wanna see more."" "In "High Fidelity" they talk about " " Evil Dead II being the greatest movie ever made." "A lot of other directors will reference Evil Dead II." "Frank Darabont kept saying, "No, it's gotta be like a brow piece."" ""Maybe weird eyes, sort of like..." "Evil Dead II." And he looked at us." "I said, "You want a horror hag." Sam's script would say:" "Heinous horror hag number one." "And he said, "Yeah, exactly."" "It was funny." "On "The Green Mile" the director refers to a look from Evil Dead II." "It was like being on a vacation." "You didn't get sick of it   because it was so much fun." "We all made 300-400 dollars a week." " But we loved what we were doing." " We were there to have a great time." "Do all the effects stuff." "It was one of the more memorable shows for the three of us." "It was a blast." "It will never be that way again." "Cassie, cheek." "And Rick, a little this way." "Let me out." "COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU" "THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE IN GRUELING TERROR CONTINUES" " You killed the baby." " No, I've conquered brain death." "I'll give it life." "Five seconds." "Reanimation in five seconds." "Oh, my God!" "EVIL DEAD BABY" "Join us!"