All language subtitles for The Evil Dead One by One We Will Take You The Untold Saga of the Evil Dead - The Documentary.English

One last time.

- Look up again.
- He is well. I understood.

Sam Raimi was so obsessed

to get all the details right
film that we like because it is familiar.

Let's go very slowly.

Right. Lay her down.

Ready, let's go.

The Death of the Demon is
pure horror film.

It's clearly made with
passion for terror,

and there are not many movies
like that currently.

Keep smoking. When
I say stop, stop.

Stop!

Most horror films
It's about people being killed,

but Death of the Devil is mainly
about an actor being hunted,

and Sam antagonizing his
best friend at school.

This is crazy.

There were several reasons for
Death of the Demon has worked,

but mainly it was Sam.

And it was ignorance on our part,
because we continued making the film,

and if something didn't go right,
we would redo it again and again...

- Scene 101. Take two. Audio 1000.
- 1000.

- Rolling.
- Marking!

Scene 19-2. Audio eight.

Action.

She is dead!

Scene 68-FD. Take three. Audio 1086.

- Scene 68-FD. Take four. Audio 1087.
- Why are they torturing me like this?

Take three. Audio 366.

ONE BY ONE, WE WILL TAKE THEM.

THE UNTOLD SAGA OF
DEATH OF THE DEMON

BACK TO THE SEVENIES...

Sam and I met in college.
I lived with Ivan, his older brother.

ROB TAPERT EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

TOM SULLIVAN MAKEUP ARTIST
SPECIAL EFFECTS

It turned out that Sam and his brother Ivan
discovered this grand scheme.

If you are a student living on campus,

has a huge discount
to rent an auditorium.

This helped to promote
student activities.

So they rented a small auditorium
with a big screen, they brought a Super 8 projector,

and showed their films
high school seniors and such.

I remember titles like Six Months
to Live, Attack of the Helping Hand!

IT'S MURDER!
LAST PRESENTATION

All that eccentric stuff.

They exhibited at colleges, won
money and kinda decided:

"Let's lock registration
and make a feature film."

We can make a movie
to go to drive-ins

better than the drug that
we see it at drive-ins. Was really...

At that time, 25% of films
in the USA they were shown in drive-ins.

Well we got it in the 70s
a kind of golden age...

JOE BOB BRIGGS AUTHOR,
DEEPLY DISTURBED

...when you could put almost anything
at a drive-in.

We had a time when
that censorship did not work.

The 70s were great
for horror films.

OASIS DRIVE-IN
TRIPLE SESSION OF HORROR MOVIES

There was something illicit about the films...

...released on the independent circuit...

...no one knew how or why.

The best films of the 70s and 80s...

...are the ones you watch...

...and there is something disturbing about them...

...what you think:

"Was the person who did this normal?"

Scene 22. Take six. Audio 146.

And action.

The Raimi family lived in Detroit
on the same block as me.

DAVID GOODMAN
TRANSPORTATION AND COOKING

So me and Ivan
we quickly made friends,

then I met Sam, in fact, I know him
since the age of two.

He was an incredible child.

One of the things
that Ivan and I used to do,

this might explain it a little now,
when he was little and in his crib,

we ripped him out of there
and we cornered him

in the corners with knitting needles.

Ivan, his older brother...

JOSH BECKER
SECOND UNIT AND LIGHTING

...who is a doctor and is a co-writer
of Spider-Man currently...

Ivan was a co-writer on Darkman, and
several other things. One Hallucinating Night 3.

He was my best friend when I was young
and Sam was his annoying little brother

with your Spider-Man comics.
So for years he said:

"Take your damn
hq and get out of here."

That was Sam for me.

I was his cameraman on many
of his films in Super 8

and in almost all of them, I make a cameo.

Sam is the villain
in almost all of my Super 8 films.

I always cast him as the villain
because he is melodramatic.

Sam had only done dramas and comedies,

so he made a short horror short,
we all did it together called Clockwork...

...and then another to raise funds,

a 30-minute Super 8
called Within the Woods.

Sam, when we were doing
The Death of the Demon,

it was exactly as it is today.

He is creative, intelligent, hardworking,

98% of the time he is very kind
and 2% of the time when he...

When he thinks they are not doing
what should they do,

not because it bothers you,
and yes, out of respect for others

of the cast and crew
who you are working with.

ELLEN SANDWEISS
ACTRESS, "CHERYL"

People don't see
Sam's ironic side

because he got very serious
with the film industry,

but he is one of the funniest people
that I know, besides Bruce Campbell,

and the two together
they make me laugh all the time.

It was like living in the midst of constant routine
of the 3 Stooges.

THERESA TILLY
ACTRESS, "SHELLY"

He did nothing but dream, think,
eat and sleep depending on the film,

and his energy infected everyone.

Scene 22-A. Take one. Audio 485.

CAST

Ellen was friends with Sam and Bruce at school,

and was part of some
from their school movies.

She participated in our first short,
Within the Woods,

we did to raise capital.

In Within the Woods,
the roles were reversed,

and Bruce was my victim.

I had to beat him,
which was really fun.

The first time I saw Sam, he was
at a restaurant with Bruce and Rob...

BETSY BAKER
ACTRESS, "BEAUTIFUL"

...and I arrived a little late,

I entered this restaurant and saw three young people

who could not be over 21 years old,

sitting and having fun,

blowing paper with a straw
in each other,

and they were playing with spoons,

lining them up and then hitting
at the end of the cable,

I thought, "It can't be them. They shouldn't
be the guys I'm supposed to meet."

But they were the only ones
in the restaurant, so...

She was a sweetheart,
fraternity cheerleader,

the kind I always hated but loved Betsy.

But I was a rebellious, hippie type,

pseudo-intellectual, you know, the Jewish type,

and I never liked it
of these sorority girls.

So when we filmed
The Death of the Demon,

I respected her a lot,

as she was probably the most experienced

in terms of acting at that time.

Theresa Tilly. Theresa has many names.

Her real name is Theresa Seyferth,

and she didn't like it,
so she changed it to Theresa Tilly,

and in the film, she was called Sarah York.

I shot my first "SAG" commercial a little
before entering Death of the Demon,

It's a story I'm always asked about.

I really had to fight to get into the union,

and literally the paint had dried
on my card.

I was shooting the movie and thinking:

"You know what? No one will ever notice.

"I'll give it a different name and look great."

I was suspended from the union for six months.

All the women shared a room,

and Theresa was often seen
sitting on the floor meditating,

taking your three-hour baths,
using up all the hot water.

She was the most sensitive of the cast.

We all got along very well.

Beauty.

RICH DEMANINCOR
ALSO KNOWN AS HAL DELRICH

Yes.

Rich actually had a little Scotty
in itself, the balladeer type.

We stayed in

certain unpleasant situations
for a long time,

and he always found the good side.

I knew he was
a phenomenal diver, a champion.

I found this very interesting.

He being a swimmer and diver doing
a horror film.

I thought it was something exclusive.

Overall, he was just a normal guy.
And he was the only one

who always loved horror films
and he always wanted to participate

and I was very excited
for being in a horror movie,

for being able to participate in one.

...Take two. Audio 1150.

Bruce played different roles
in the movie.

He was the producer,

sometimes he was co-director, he was the star,

he cleaned the manure with a shovel
in the cabin as soon as we got there.

Bruce did it all.

Scene 47. Take one. Audio 429.

All very well.

- Get out of here, Campbell.
- Skirt!

Bruce was goofy. One night,
he sprained his ankle,

and Sam and I beat him with sticks
for a week we drove him crazy.

It was the cruelest thing we did,

besides being very immature,
But at the time it was funny.

GREGORY NICOTERO
SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKEUP ARTIST

A MALLUCINATING NIGHT 2 E
A MASSIVE NIGHT 3

Sam wants to see how far Bruce goes,

and Bruce never surrenders.

I think Bruce is fine
like horror movie hero

because he is handsome, but not the heartthrob type.

He's not like...

You don't see him in the role of a fanatic
for football in a film

who is usually the guy everyone roots for
to die in a horror film.

You see him as a goof
in a science class.

Let's open the game now.

I always had a crush
by Bruce Campbell,

like so many other women, but...
I think some men do too.

He is beautiful, funny, charming,

and when I looked at the script
and they asked me to act opposite Bruce,

I felt like the luckiest in the world.

Bruce was very shy and kind of
who hid behind his talent.

Just Bruce start walking
that I start to laugh.

He liked to fall on his butt on the floor
as seen in the film, or the stunts.

He loved it, he could repeat it a thousand times.

On the set of Death of the Demon,
he was always a gentleman.

Unlike other people, he was
always concerned about our well-being.

The fact that it has a male protagonist
in a horror film it's already strange.

It's usually a recipe for failure.

Everyone who tried to use a man as
protagonist in a horror film failed.

Theory says you have to have
a strong woman as the protagonist,

but Bruce Campbell in the role of Ash
It was perfect for the story.

Partly because he expressed
the film’s philosophical dilemmas:

"If your girlfriend turns into a zombie
and it will torment you, what do you do?"

- Rolling.
- Scene 56-G. Take one. Audio 575.

PRODUCTION

We went to Tennessee in 1979.

We traveled by car from Detroit

in one or two cars, one or two vans,

and we arrived in this little town
called Morristown.

Ellen, Theresa
and I entered this cabin

which of course had no locks, no bathroom,
heating, electricity,

but it had cow excrement

scattered everywhere,

because cows or goats
or I don't know what animals got in there

and made the cabin their second home,

and now it would be our home.

We rebuilt it all.

We tear down the walls,
we renovated the structure,

we added where the shots...

Where the shot hit the window.

That wasn't a window,
we built.

We build the opening in the floor.
I think we redid the fireplace.

It was a piece of trash.
We improved a little

and then, at the end,
we had completely destroyed it.

It's really scary.

Like, when you go there in the middle of the night,
It's really scary.

Very sinister.

And the other thing is, I'm right
that you've heard this before,

people have heard this,

hunters arrived in the middle of the night
with dozens of dogs,

because we were in the middle of the woods.

It was a Bible Belt,

and, of course, the local people
sometimes he showed up

but generally there was nothing to do,
it was just our production group.

No one can imagine
how this movie was made,

for we all live in one house,
about 20 people, in portable beds,

with a guy
who didn't know how to cook anything for us.

And since I didn't have
no skills,

I didn't know anything about lighting or sound,

I ended up becoming the coordinator
transportation and the cook.

There was no one hired
to provide lighting.

There was the idea that Sam would do it alone,

which is something completely ridiculous,

since he already had a lot of work
with the direction of the film.

The lighting was done randomly,

until I finally said:
"If you let me do the lighting,

"Everything will be much faster
and the film will be better."

I managed to bring several departments
different in a guy here.

I created The Book of the Dead
and the Candarian dagger,

and other small objects and things.

And I was responsible for the project, creation
and makeup application.

It was a small team.
Basically about seven or eight people.

Sam drove.
Bruce took care of payments and acting.

And I was a piece of cake.

The film wasn't tremendously effective
in their technique, as they had no money.

It was all filmed
with a very low budget,

But what I admire and love about the film is

who didn't care about the budget.
They sent it over.

I don't know if I'm speaking 25 years later,

but the budget was US$ 150 thousand
and ended up costing $500,000.

It went a little further.

Definitely $500,000
It's nothing in the film industry,

and the film really needed it,
but who would have thought?

But at the same time, there were several things
who were very professional.

They treated us
in a very professional way,

with contracts and scripts.
Not that they stuck to the script.

The script was written on 27 napkins.

I can't do this forever.

No one came out unscathed.

I honestly think Sam wanted it that way
to get into the film.

What if everyone were
in extreme suffering,

this somehow
would turn into terror,

He told us this every single day.

It was a primitive time,

and Tom Sullivan was
an excellent artist,

that he had a difficult job,

he made all the molds
for the masks and that kind of thing,

but at that time we knew nothing,

then you put Vaseline on it
actor's face, arm or leg

to remove the mold and
then apply the plaster.

I ended up using acrylic paint,

which is written on the tube:
"Don't put it on your skin."

But I used it to paint the masks,
as well as the faces of the actors.

Do you know how to take paint
of the actors' faces?

You shave like when
use steel wool and such.

I made the poor things go through everything.

If they had had the money to do
suitable special effects, makeup,

I believe the film would have been
as scary as The Exorcist.

Because the only thing that
made you lose attention,

perhaps because there was the issue of creation,
an interest in monster makeup,

was that they didn't have money
no resources

to actually create prosthetics
for the characters.

When I made Cabin Fever, I made the actors
watch Death of the Devil.

ELI ROTH
DIRECTOR - HELL OF HELL AND HOSTEL

And Rider Strong
I had seen the film several times.

And every time someone came
complain about something,

we said, "Look at Bruce Campbell."

And: "What do you think
that happened in Death of the Demon?"

And that shut everyone up.

The injuries, yes.

Well, certainly for running through the woods.

Curse.

One time we were filming her
running through the woods,

we had this long plywood track
for the dolly

all splattered with blood.

I was all scratched up.

They had two-by-four tracks
and I think I bled on them all.

And I said something kind of rude
about actresses getting cut,

That's when you know
who were working hard.

But I don't remember saying it.

Well, in 1981, it was possible to do
whatever you want with a woman in a film.

No need to worry
if it was politically correct as it is today.

Once they came to talk to me:
"Well, let's do an external

"and here's what's going to happen, Betsy.
It'll be pretty cool.

"You're just going to be irate.

"Ash will start hitting you in the head
to try to get rid of you,

"with these wooden beams,
but they are not real beams.

"In truth,
Let's send someone to town.

“There’s a Sears here.
Let's buy some Styrofoam beams.

"They don't hurt at all.
We're going to hit you a couple of times."

But they came back
with some beams that at the time,

were used in living rooms

and were imitations of wooden beams.

Then she had to be hit
in the face with one of those things,

and, of course, Sam decided
that he would be the chosen one,

under the camera lens
with these Styrofoam beams,

and hit Betsy on the chin really hard.

I went crazy with life,
and that's what Sam wanted.

Sam would say, "She's really angry.
Leave the camera rolling.

"Let's do it again. Let's do it again."

And then, when it was over,
We came home and he said:

"I think probably
We should have beaten her naked."

And I answered:
"I don't think she would have, Sam."

Every time we repeated the scene,
we lay around you

to keep her warm,

because she couldn't wear
a coat or anything.

She needed to keep her costume,
filled with Karo syrup.

We helped each other
and we did the best we could.

I think I got scars from
true. I know Bruce stayed.

He has a... Ask him.
He had a hole in his leg.

Bruce was the worst of all...

Because he had to be the actor
in front of the camera,

so he had
that keep what the actors do

to go where they need to go,

and we said, "You have to
put lenses in actresses' eyes,

"because you are responsible, Bruce."

This task was given to you.

But there was no water, there was nothing
in this cabin where we worked.

There was only one kettle

to make coffee and heat water,

so he washed his hands there

and then put on and took off the lenses.

At the time, they were hard lenses
that occupied the entire sclera.

They are now soft and easy to insert,

but in the past it was necessary
a small plastic applicator,

and needed to leave the actor's eyes open,

and the lenses were mounted
at the end of the applicator,

and then just insert it into the eye.

They saw absolutely nothing.

Nothing could be seen with the lenses.

They were this size.
They covered the entire eyeball,

unlike normal lenses
that only cover the iris.

So in every scene where we are
possessed, with white eyes,

we don't see anything.

It's not that we were
just filming in the cold,

or in a place
no electricity and plumbing.

The issue was the waiting time.

We didn't have heaters.

There were no trailers
nor equipped trucks.

Normally, when you shoot a movie,
even in difficult conditions,

there's a comfortable place to wait,

or at least
where you can wash your hands and...

When we finished filming, we were
in the cold unheated cabin

sitting waiting.

Often, in addition to being cold, it is painful
and sticky, it was annoying.

It was very cold,

and they were working hard,
so I made some strong chili.

I said, "Guys, why do you
Don't you go home to eat?"

And I came back the next morning
and they were all sleeping at the table,

Sam thought I was drugged
and raped everyone.

The only irony in all this

it's just that they were stupid enough to eat again
on the second night,

and miss another night of recording.

There is this myth that The Death of the Demon
cured me of any desire to act

and immediately stopped acting because
from The Death of the Demon. Nonsense.

I know people say
that we were mad when we finished,

but it wasn't like that at all.
We all had things to do.

We had all fulfilled
our commitment to the contract,

but they continued
with other ideas later.

Almost the entire cast and crew left.

It was supposed to be six weeks of filming,
but they lasted 12 weeks.

We filmed for three weeks just the six of us,
Bruce... The five of us.

Bruce, Sam, me, Josh
Becker and David Goodman.

Almost everything with Bruce alone
in the cabin and such.

Then there was another week of
filming several months later

in Gladwin, Michigan, at the house
from the family of Bruce Campbell,

and then another week of recording
at Rob Tapert's family home

in Marshall, Michigan,

and they stayed several weeks
at Sam's house,

in the backyard, in his basement.

We train people from the region...

...to do what we call
by Fake Shemps. Putting on clothes...

...and film them from behind,
or however we needed.

We made the film completely backwards,

with Bruce catching a lot of black stuff
in his face, and white things in...

Each night we were...
Nobody maintained continuity.

So I thought it was enough to play
the rubbish on the floor.

"I think it was like that."
I didn't even know if I could ride it.

I thought, "People should
even think it's real?"

The rubber hand that does it like this
when he knocks on the door.

It is worth remembering that 25 years ago,

It wasn't the kind of movie
that would boost his career.

- Disconnect!
- Oh my God!

BOOK OF THE DEAD
PRE-SHOW

FIRST VERSIONS

The interesting thing about The Death of the Demon

is that if you said what it was about
For someone who hadn't seen the movie,

It would seem like one of the biggest clichés in the world.

There was nothing new in the film.

You know, children will
to the woods and never come back.

When we were filming One Night
Mind-blowing 2, Tom Savini came to visit us,

and I introduced him to Sam and Rob.

And later Tom said:
"I was walking down the street in New York

"and these two grabbed me
and threw me into an editing room."

It was Sam and Rob,
they had recognized Tom on the street.

So even back then,
managed to get this interest in the film.

The first time I watched it with an audience

It was at the Redford Theater
in Redford, Michigan,

it was an exhibition for our investors,
we knew it would be fun,

and we also knew that we should
having people motivating the audience...

The Redford Theater was one of the best
old theaters, had an organ

so we called a guy to play,
and he kind of popped up out of the ground,

all investors, cast and crew
were on the main floor,

it was like children in the box
school presentation.

And somewhere in between...
Or almost at the end of the film,

while Ash fought the monsters,
a hockey fan chanted:

"Cut it. Cut it..."
And people were stamping their feet.

Lots of people shouting, getting up...

And all of these were involuntary reactions.

They talked to the film:
"Not through that door! No, Ash!"

And at some film festivals
that we went to Paris and Spain,

we saw the same reactions only
than in another language.

I think I saw Death of the Devil
on first public showing

which was at the Cannes Film Market in 1982.
When I say I saw it at Cannes

people think
which was at some fancy festival.

I didn't go to the festival,
and yes to the Cannes Film Market,

which was, especially at that time,
where all the lower class

gathered in these streets and alleys
from the main avenue of Cannes,

and showed their films
exclusively for commercial sales.

The film was ready at least
eighteen months before it was released,

So I always said:
"Show Death of the Demon.

"Exhibit Death of the Demon."

And finally it was shown
for some exhibitors

who said:
"Okay, I want to be a part of this."

The film actually...
It was released on October 15th

1981, I think,

and it hadn't been released
domestically in the United States.

Since there was no
been classified by censorship,

It didn't get much publicity.

A lot of people knew it was happening
because there was a screening at the cinema.

There were few criticisms, and
It was difficult to get ads.

Television ads, even more difficult.

I needed to see it in adult rooms,
midnight session in New York.

That was the real crowd
fanatic. They went crazy in the movie.

Spent a lot of time in Texas
and was having a lot of success,

for it was something fresh and new,

and I think part of that is that it was
popular because it simply came out of nowhere.

Nobody knew who Sam Raimi was.

Probably no one would have seen
The Death of the Demon if it weren't on video.

A SECOND LIFE

When I was in college,
I had it on VHS...

EDGAR WRIGHT
DIRECTOR - EVERYONE ALMOST DEAD

...it was rubbish,
third generation version,

which only added fear.

I remember going to a video store
and I asked if they had Death of the Demon,

and replied: "The copy was stolen."

And I found out it was the video
most stolen in the United States.

My friend Jeff
and I rented Death of the Devil,

and he actually watched it the night before,
Then he called me and said:

"It's the most terrifying movie I've ever seen."

And he said, "It's very scary to watch at night,

"so we have to see him during the day."

And my friend Jeff came to my house
with a copy of Death of the Demon,

it took us about six hours
to watch everything,

because we were so terrified,

that we had to leave
and take some time in the sun.

Leonard Maltin said it was the thing
the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

Thanks, Leonard.

And of course, he had an opinion
by Stephen King that really...

That's what drove the film,

the fact that Stephen King said

it was one of the horror movies
most original ever produced.

We had this image
from The Death of the Demon as

a film born from hell.

It would literally appear
from the depths of the forest,

it was almost like a type
of secret demon movie.

For me, nothing scared me more
what a possession.

The Exorcist was the most
scary thing I've ever seen,

but Death of the Devil was 90 minutes

of the most moments
horrors from The Exorcist

that happened to younger people.

Initially I thought
that was a bad demonic movie,

from that Video Nasties.

Basically what happened was...

Horror for hire
for your children

Similar to this, but when
there was the first sudden rise,

there was no classification
separate for video

and many distributors were
very bad characters

Zombie type by Lucio Fulci

which would be released in the cinema in a
edition without ten minutes of violence.

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Some distributors released the version
no cuts from the film,

thinking no one would ever check,
and, of course, they checked.

So when they found out
that this was happening,

received massive repression.

And there were bloody films like
The Death of the Demon,

but it is like a work of art in its field.

This one didn't deserve to be...

It shouldn't have been seen this way,
even though it is intense and violent,

should not be compared to Faces
of Death and Jennifer's Revenge.

I even think Sam had
to go to Leeds Crown Court

to defend the film in court.

It's crazy to watch Death of the Devil now

and I think Sam Raimi got sued
for obscenity because of this.

Because it's a "Video Nasties",

and I think Sam Raimi made One
Crazy Night 2 funny

because he was sued
in England. It's insane.

Can you imagine going to jail?
because of Death of the Devil?

I think it would be worth it,
because the film is angry.

I would go to jail because of Death
of the Demon. I went for other reasons.

I remember we were done
to conclude Day of the Dead,

and was having a party at home,
my girlfriend at the time was there,

the Day of the Dead script supervisor.

We were watching Death of the Devil

on video in the basement,

and she was so disgusted that she left there.

It's always interesting to see the reaction
of people watching Death of the Devil.

My wife, when she watched the film,

long before I met her,
probably when she was 17 or 18,

lived in New Zealand

and she thought whoever made the movie was sick
and should be admitted to a mental institution.

FAVORITE SCENES

The first reaction when Sam Raimi
comes towards him, he says:

"There's only one way to kill zombies.
Total dismemberment.”

Arms, legs, hands, head, everything.

In old zombie movies
There were several ways to kill them,

but this is the first in which the rules
they appeared to be total dismemberment.

I love the idea that you're trapped
in a place with friends,

and your friend is sick, you want to help,
but you may have to kill them,

and that's what terrified me about Death
of the Demon. He's stuck with his friends,

but he's not your friend,
It's something inside your friend,

but you need to quarter it
to get rid of him.

A break up isn't as much fun
as much as you can think.

We had to be
with the costume and syrup

in the eyes and everywhere
and then be shoved into the ground.

The only part of my body that was
on the floor was my head and an arm,

and Bruce and Rob were
on the other part of the floor,

and her legs were dressed
as if they were mine.

They were down there, at least that
made me feel better,

but it was still dark,

it was late and it was cold and we were on the ground,

and I was afraid that snakes and rats
they could bite my ass and stuff.

But Sam and Tim, the director of photography,

were filming this scene
and trying to get the lighting right.

I don't even know how long I was down there,

no one said anything,

and I said, "What's going on?"

And they had fallen asleep on camera.

I loved the rape scene in the woods,
even though I can't tell

like rape in the forest
relates to the rest of the story,

or why zombies are related
with the rapist forest.

Let's discuss openly.

I was 20 years old.
Let's start with this, okay?

I was very excited
to make the film.

I wanted to do whatever the director asked me to do.

I thought that no one
I would never watch this movie.

Well, what a surprise.

I had some concerns
that I talked to Sam,

and he somehow convinced me:
"There will be a lot of fog,

"you won't see anything, don't worry."

So I agreed.

We did this scene...

Exhaustion doesn't always describe...

I was running in my nightgown,
It was about five degrees.

I ran through the woods,
they only had wild blackberries

and there were no trails or anything.

I ran without stopping, I hurt myself,

and I got to the point where I thought:

"Fine. I do everything that has to be
done so we can get this over with."

The branch thing wasn't cool
for many reasons.

Final...

I really had no idea
that they would do that.

Obviously I knew that the
legs would be wide open

and that the vines would assemble,

but the end with the branch
it was all post-production.

I had no idea until I saw it and...

And, of course, at launch,
my mom was there, it was fun.

I learned this when Sam Raimi had to...

He was sued, had to go to court

to answer for
accusations against the film,

and he later found that
the rapist tree was a mistake.

And it's interesting that

is obviously the part that is not repeated in the
sequence or any of the sequences.

And it's certainly something

truly shocking in the film.

Nothing changed for me,

except now I face
with a much better sense of humor.

In a movie where people
are decapitated, raped by trees,

what caused the most reaction

it was the pencil scene
being stuck in the ankle.

The pencil on the ankle hurts more
than anything else.

You could feel it going into the bone.
It was extremely painful.

I'm getting sick just thinking about it.

Sam told me
when we were reading the script

that I would be stabbed in the ankle.

I replied, “It’s not a problem.
You will certainly find a way."

So when it came time to film
at that night,

I think it lasted a night or two...

I remember I was
with velvet cote read jeans,

and we had to remove a leg,
and would be thrown out there in the open,

and we would put a mechanical leg,

and we stayed in one position for hours
trying to stick the pencil in this leg

that would splash blood and everything
for everything that is part of it.

You could see the veins tearing.

They manually drew the veins
and we shot it frame by frame.

It's more real than seeing the veins walking
in the hands of someone with CGI.

In the early 80s,

There were several horror films in 16mm
like Basket Case,

than an hour
for another they had stop motion.

I'm crazy about stop motion animation,

and when they wanted to use such a technique
in the end, melting,

I thought it was part of the look
of how the monster would dissolve.

I managed to convince Sam
using stop motion for the ending,

in the melting scene.

Initially in the script, the characters
would basically go up in smoke and disintegrate

and Sam had the idea of finding a way
to make balloons

to fill in the shapes,

then we would have to wither them
and have the smoke coming out.

And my thought was, "Well, if someone
make noises with your mouth at this time,

"we're going to ruin the whole movie."

Sometimes when watching horror movies
and the camera is crazy and you think:

"What the hell is that?
I can't keep up. What a mess."

But Raimi had all the control
of camera work.

He used to do it from the point
view of these demons and spirits.

You watch and think:

"Besides not having seen it in a shot
of a major Hollywood production,

"That's a 20-year-old guy's thing."

The camera work is completely Sam's.

He had every shot in mind.

The camera starts too far away

of the actors or the hut,

and then it kind of
moved in the middle of things.

So it wasn't something running
directly towards you.

Define the point of view

because it gave the feeling
of being part of the forest.

All other people had
the point of view this way,

and we have already seen imitations in
countless worse versions,

in addition to great directors
have also imitated.

I remember when I watched
Bram Stoker's Dracula, I thought:

"He stole that from Death of the Demon!
How can Coppola do this? How dirty!”

INFLUENCE

The Demon's Death
It's a technically competent film.

I think it's a reason
which film students love.

I don't know if Death of the Demon influenced
any filmmaker in particular.

Right after I watched the film,
I ran to my room and read Fangoria,

that I had already read
and I had forgotten about her,

So I read it again
interview with Sam Raimi,

and he talks about doing
this film with US$ 350 thousand,

and the fact that he was 21 years old when he made the film.

I remember I was 13
at the time and I thought, "Oh my God."

"I'll be 21 soon.
Fresh from college."

"Is this possible".

I made a film when I was 20,
a low budget film,

and the main thing in my head was:

"I need to make my own
The Death of the Demon."

Watch a movie
like Death of the Demon...

You know, different points of view and...

He was so stupid and had so much style

that it was impossible not to be affected
for the film in a way.

See that Sam Raimi
had achieved it possible

that a guy like me
who likes horror films

entered the middle of the forest,
take a camera

and make the film more
bloody and disgusting as possible.

They recently made a
film called Shack from Hell,

which is a reference to this.

When writing Cabana do Inferno, the biggest
influence was from The Death of the Demon.

I thought, "I want to get a
16 mm camera, enter the woods",

"and make a bloody film
as The Death of the Demon".

The great thing about Death of the Demon is

combined violence
with dramatic motivation.

At the same time, it is one of the reasons
because we have bad violent films today,

less talented filmmakers
watch Death of the Devil,

and think about doing something similar.

They fail to achieve motivations
internal dramas for the characters,

leaving only a lot of blood on the screen.

- Scene 101-NC. Jack 3. Audio 1151.
- 101-NC. Jack 3. Audio 1151.

THE LEGACY

Participate in Death of the Demon
it was an incredible journey.

I was in my early 20s when
these three guys asked me

if I wanted to be in a movie
of horror with a low salary,

go to a small town
in Tennessee, "on location",

and go through everything
that we spent "on location",

all this without release
after two or three years,

then go on and watch from time to time

which was at the time a new idea,
which were the rental companies,

then we met with Ellen and Theresa
and started all over again.

We are all now married, we have
teenage children, we are older.

We can enjoy this phase
from The Death of the Demon,

and fans, the film became a
cult classic and much more.

Scene 56-H. Take two. Audio 578.

Who could have imagined
that would happen?

We were younger. It happened 25 years ago.

I was the only one who had
worked on a set before.

- Marking.
- Scene 101-J. Take one. Audio 1036.

I often found it myself
that we were filming without knowing anything,

but my instinct said
that we were doing the right thing.

Only God knows, look at what he gave.

Looking back, 25 years ago,
It's like looking back at your youth

and be able to laugh at what was serious
and emotional at the time,

and I think, of course,
people love this movie,

a lot of people love the movie
that influenced filmmakers,

this certainly makes you
be proud to be part of it.

Scene 19-A. Take one. Audio 144.

Well, it was the first feature
that I participated in,

and I could see how
the whole process worked,

besides seeing how it's done
with a 16mm camera and his friends.

And it is possible.

And, as Sam proved,
much more than many people,

he made a classic film.

- When you will come...
- Okay, my tooth just fell out.

Cut. Let's cut.

Definitely make the movie
it was not a pleasant experience,

although it was exciting, because I was
young and was making a feature film.

But later, I managed to develop

a sense of humor regarding the film

and I tried to figure out the reason
which fans like.

Today I can also see
how creative the film is

and that Sam was brilliant

for having managed it with so little money.

So the whole experience has now become

one cool thing about me,

this other schizophrenic side of my life
that I can comment and have fun with it.

I like seeing people's reactions when

I say I participated in
The Death of the Demon. It's cool.

Scene 71. Take four.
Z-76 audio, ambient sound.

The Death of the Demon never had
a great story, dialogue...

The film really trusted
in visceral quality

of an imagination, the kind that takes
the audience where she has never been before,

the kind of wild, excessive adventure.

Orson Welles quoted
about film production,

that making a film is like
the last train launch.

And watch Death of the Demon,

In my opinion, it's not just about seeing
a teenager with his train track,

but Sam Raimi is the kind of person
which would increase the speed of the train

to the maximum and would leave
roll until it hits.

And when you watch
The Death of the Demon,

feel that the love of those who made it is so pure

and has a great vision, which
film is exploding with talent,

which probably doesn't appear
since Blair Witch,

or Scream, one of those horror films,

that were launched and redefined the
rules that everyone starts to copy.

Oh my!

I think Death of the Demon
had the same qualities

what other cool horror movies have had.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,
Night of the Living Dead, Halloween.

They all had a low budget,
they are rustic, radical

and the directors knew how to take advantage
what they had at their disposal,

and managed to do something
that 20, 25 years later

It has the same impact as when it was made.

Generations of horror are short.
Six or seven years.

So we have the third generation
of horror fans discovering

and most horror films don't
lasts longer than its own generation.

Sam's success with Spider-Man is not
by chance. He is a brilliant filmmaker.

I would love to see what
he could do

with this new sophistication
One Hallucinating Night 4.

We commit to doing something.

We overcome great obstacles,
we made a film, we showed it,

we did the distribution,
and we went through the whole process,

and it worked.

And this was a testament
for those who don't come from Hollywood

but outside the Hollywood circle,
that you can pursue your dreams,

and if your search is incessant,
sometimes it works.

- Rolling.
- Take four. Audio 37.

Prepare!

Maybe when Death of the Demon
When we turn 50 we will be able to understand everything.

It means: "Don't go to
the woods and Ash does well."

Sam fired me on the last day.

He always fires me
last day of a film.

So I don't work for him anymore.

Sam made the brilliant decision to
remove anything that could date the film.

Maybe Hush Puppies shoes and such,

but nothing proves that
It was made in the 70s.

- The rape in the forest or...
- Rape in the forest? What...

Do you know what he's talking about?
The rape in the forest?

Rape in the forest.

Rape in the forest. It wasn't me.

It was a brilliant work.

I like the name Sarah,

my sister had given
this name for her daughter,

and I always wanted to live in New York.
That's it.

Ellen completely freaked out one night.
She doesn't remember anything.

Which we later call
"the latex point".

So stay with
latex for a long time

It can drive you crazy.

You freak...
And with fake lenses too.

And she completely freaked out...
She ripped off her makeup.

She went completely crazy.

It was the maximum allowed
to do with her that night.

I started talking to
a little girl's voice,

and I started to sing and laugh,

and when I started laughing,
There were people from the team in the cabin.

They stopped and said:
"Stop! Stop it!"

Sam and I looked at each other and said:

"That's the direction. That's what we're going to do.
She will be this doll figure,

"the kind that makes you want
to throw at the wall."

Probably my favorite part
of dialogue in the entire film is:

"What do we do? Let's bury her."

"We can't bury her. She IS our friend."

It's like watching an episode
censorship of 18 years of Scooby Doo.

One thing about movie fans
of terror is that they love to complain.

They never support original films.

They complain about the sequels and run
to see them at launch.

And, of course, more sequels are made.

Then an original film is made
and go online

fiercely criticize the director,
because they're jealous or whatever.

They say, "This guy sucks.
The movie is going to be horrible."

Film fans
horror are incredible,

but most of the time
They don't want to give new people a chance.

They say they want a new film, but:

"It wasn't that good
as The Death of the Demon".

It's like, yes, but
It's Death of the Demon.

Nothing will be better
than Death of the Demon.

An interesting thing that a lot of people
Don't know about One Night Stand 2

is that in the original script,

We would use...

Sam wanted to use
images from the first film

and incorporate them into the film

so that everyone who didn't have
seen the first film

could you get a brief summary

and then, boom, resume
where we started from,

but they didn't get the rights.

New Line did not
the rights for them

because it was a different company
producing this film,

so we actually prepared
a completely new beginning

with everyone together

and we remade part of Death
of the Demon with new actors,

so they could use it in One Night
Hallucinating 2 as a bridge between the two films.

Several people reached out to us
to remake Death of the Devil,

and we always refuse until New
Line look for us and say:

"We want to do
Ash versus Freddy versus Jason."

We thought about it for a second

because it was a good opportunity
for Bruce Campbell

get a handsome amount
in addition to about three thousand editions...

But we also knew that
we would ruin the franchise by doing that.

There would not be a
Hallucinating Night 4

bringing Sam, Bruce and I together
together in a production,

and also wouldn't have
a good reason to return

and remake the original film
to relaunch the franchise itself

with a new cast,
even though they all have different names,

and a new filmmaker
who wants to honor the first

providing a new experience
horror film for a new audience.

That was the reasoning.

We insert in magazines
what we were thinking about doing to

see who's reaction
would be interested in participating.

When James Cameron, Steven Spielberg
and Quentin Tarantino refused us,

We thought: "Who do we ask now?"

Translation: Fabiano M. Machado
(AFT Ash J. Williams)