Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead II (Video 2011)

Swallowed Souls: The Making of Evil Dead II: Directed by Michael Felsher. With Bruce Campbell, Josh Becker, Scott Spiegel, David M. Goodman. A documentary about the making of Evil Dead 2.

“A groovy documentary on a groovy movie. Almost the whole cast and crew are interviewed here except for Sam Raimi, who was working on Oz: The Great And Powerful.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe doc starts off with Bruce and co explaining how it took forever to get the first Evil Dead released. Then they made their second film, Crimewave which went through a nightmarish production.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBasically, the real reason why Evil Dead 2 was made, was to escape the nightmare of Crimewave, a film which went over budget, 2 cast members were addicted to cocaine, the lead part was written for Bruce but Columbia wanted a bigger name (Bruce wasnu0026#39;t known at the time) and how Columbia recut the film behind Raimiu0026#39;s back. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo Sam wanted to go back to working with his friends instead of working with the big studio boys. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJosh Becker, the 2nd unit director of Evil Dead 1 said that he wrote a draft of Evil Dead 2 that was very different to what it is now.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe reason why the beginning of the movie acts like a remake was because the filmmakers couldnu0026#39;t use the footage of the first film, due to it being a different company. Itu0026#39;s like Disney asking Dreamworks if they could borrow footage.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDino DeLaurentis wanted to make this film because he loved the first film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen we move on to the casting. Ted Raimi explains the nightmare of being in the Henrietta suit. u0026quot;It didnu0026#39;t matter cos I was 20,u0026quot; he says. Bruce brought his daughter on the set and Ted scared the life out of her. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDan Hicks, who played Jake tells the story of how he almost drowned when he had to hang upside down and water was sprayed out of the cellar.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRichard who played Ed talks about how to play a Kandarian demon and how he pulled the ugliest face to do so.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNext is the best part of the doc, the special make up effects. We see how Richard had to keep his mouth open for his make up and drool was coming out of him.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThey also explained what it was like being in North Carolina and they went into a laundromat that was full of black people. They told the effects boys that the u0026quot;White laundromatu0026quot; was nearby. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;This was u0026#39;86,u0026quot; said Howard Berger. Then they talked about the scorching heat they had to deal with. u0026quot;We had put out covers in cold water.u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThey also compared themselves to the Jackass gang what with all the pranks they pulled on each other.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen thereu0026#39;s segments on the visual effects, the stop motion animation, Sam Raimi (he know he to do some of the shots because he came from a magician background) and finally we get the post production. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe editor said that she cut her finger on the teeth of the editing machine. Sam Raimi walked in and looked shocked. The editor though she was going to lose her job, but then Sam said to her u0026quot;Iu0026#39;m sorry, the sight of blood bothers me.u0026quot;u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen the doc with the legacy this movie had caused and how the cast and crew were proud of it.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOverall, a must see for Evil Dead 2 fans.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNow that we had documentaries on the first two movies, we need one on Army Of Darkness. Make it happen, folks!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBy the way, I got a comment on Youtube from Michael Granberry who did the stop motion animation in this documentary. Thanks, mate!”