As an actor who has used various weapons in his films,
if you had to defend yourself from a gang of thugs what would
be your weapon of choice? Wiist
Well, it's weird, I'm
the only guy in my valley who doesn't have a gun, so I'd run.
I would run, I'd totally run and I would just hope that in my
fear I could outrun them.
How did it feel to argue with, fight with and eventually
have to bury yourself in "Army of Darkness"? Gavin
Rolston
It felt good, but it was a little tedious having to
play both parts. We would shoot whole sequences of just Ash,
and then whole sequences of just Evil Ash and mix it all
together. If you're in a ridiculous movie that's part of
what's in store - changing costumes, changing make-up, a lot
of crazy things like that. In a normal film you don't go
through that, which is why every time I've been in an
A-movie... They're actually really easy to be in. They take
care of you, everything is covered. They don't want you to get
all messy, they don't want to bother with the really crazy
stuff, but the B-movies are always reaching a little more.
Do you plan to direct again? Andy Jacobs
Yeah,
this coming spring I'm going to prep a film called "Man With
the Screaming Brain" for the Sci-fi Channel, that will air
about a year from now. It's gone through a number of different
drafts and I had to review the whole thing to get it up to
speed with where myself and my partner David Goodman are as
filmmakers now, we have different tastes I think. So, it needs
a whole upgrade, plus notes from the Sci-fi Channel, so I
don't really know what direction it'll go in right now, I have
to look at it. It's basically "Body Heat" with a brain
transplant. It's a film noir with a sci-fi twist.
Ash in the "Evil Dead" movies has a number of classic
catchphrases - which one gets repeated to you the most?
Philip Guest
Probably, "Give me some sugar, baby", which
was actually translated into Chinese by a guy who was working
in Beijing and he went into a bar and used it and he got laid.
So that line has much power.
Why do you think the effects have not dated as badly in
"Evil Dead" I & II as in some other horror flicks of the
same period? Gavin Rolston
I think the credit to Sam is
that he mixed them up - he didn't have one type of effect that
came in and out of style. Sam used forced perspective shots,
he used split-screen, he used, sometimes, even cheesy
rearscreen, and miniatures, animation... He used his little
magician's bag more than most of the other low-budget movies,
so I think maybe that helps.