Evil Dead Burn | Creating Deadites | Behind The Scenes | Warner Bros. Entertainment

The first movies you do when you are young and you have a camera and you want to do short movies are horror movies. So when you are an adult, that's a childhood dream. That's why I'm pretty proud to be able to achieve that in the Evil Dead universe. Evil Dead changes with the times by getting different directors and different artistic vision on each of the movies. Where we stay with them, we do just... And hopefully those mirror what the audience of this moment want to see. There's definitely a pressure you feel coming into such a beloved franchise. You know, we don't want to **** it up. But Deb is amazing and the script is so visceral. He's got this kind of really grounded way of telling these really high concept stories. There's obviously an immense respect for the franchise and the fans. That's where it all begins. But I know I wasn't offered this role to simply do what the audience expects. There's so much more to explore and that's what I was determined to do. Understand the rules and twist them. Bring a new and unique vision to this world. No. That's Will's seat. Oh, when does he get here? Seb and Florent do a great job of really establishing more complicated characters than you usually get given in a horror film. He's down below. Evil Dead fans will be really eager to get to the horror elements but it really plays as a great drama for the first 20 pages or so. I wanted to primarily focus on characters. We watched all the early Evil Dead movies and realised that they were obviously talking about death but also about love. Like, would you be ready to kill your girlfriend or your friends if they were becoming those crazy deadites? You'll all die tonight. We thought that death of love would be an interesting idea and the impact on the in-laws also would be kind of universal for an audience. Sebastian came to us with the idea that he wanted to do an Evil Dead about family but the lead girl is going to be French. And we went, oh, that's a really good idea. We've never done that. It feels fresh. The songs, the universe, there is a lot of French touches. I brought the legacy of the French extreme. So it's technical things, working on sound, working on music, working on the image and have a handheld camera and bring the camera close to the actors. I was not expecting that movie to be mostly handheld. There's almost no static shot and that really creates something, I would say, that is really organic and very immersive. And on top of that, Seb definitely didn't want a lot of saturated colors for the movie. We had very precise artistic direction. Seb set the challenge very early on where he wanted to try and achieve an in-camera desaturated look. So that led us to kind of trying to pull some of the rich color tones out of wood and go for some muted tones on wallpaper, carpets, all of our paint colors. The color palette was something really important. All departments were pretty involved into this, makeup, costumes. When we were doing costume fittings early on, everything's grey on grey. Except for Alice, except Suella's hair. For Seb, it was really, really important that Alice had a whatsoever color dyed hair. That's his way of saying that Will has power and he decides what he wants for Alice. It's a powerful contrast. We need to find the good colors where we want them to be. This movie is also about fire, so to find the perfect red, the perfect ashes color, it was something that was pretty tricky. To know how he was going to play color in this film, just a great bit of overall vision from Seb from the outset. Seb really talked about connecting our film to the Evil Dead Rise and the rest of the franchise that came before it. It's at an inflection point in the franchise. It's going to begin to tie together the rest of the Evil Dead movies that come after it as they relate to things in the past. I'm really well surrounded by people that enjoy what they are doing, so every day is a pleasure, every day there is a surprise, every day there's something crazy to shoot. I'm not going to an office job, I'm doing a movie, so I'm really, really excited every day. I think the superpower of Bruce Campbell, Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi is to give the freedom to a young director to be able to say what he has to say and show it how he wants to show it. If they keep their trust in young directors, this franchise will be immortal.