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  • 5 weeks ago
In a candid interview, filmmaker Sam Raimi explains that his own aversion to scary things is what makes him want to inflict them on others, revealing his love for crafting the perfect jump scare.
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00:00Do you ever gross yourself out?
00:01Do you ever, like, are you guys ever, like, shooting a scene and you're like, oh, oh, gosh.
00:04Yeah.
00:05It's my aversion to those things that make me want to unleash them on others.
00:11I'm like the coward bully.
00:13Hey, I'm afraid.
00:14I'll scare you.
00:16But I can't take it myself.
00:20I like that.
00:21That really is what's going on.
00:22Do you ever feel guilt about that?
00:24No.
00:27I feel glee in the audience.
00:30When they jump, it's really great.
00:32Now they're going to be scared.
00:34Now they're going to fall for this moment.
00:36But we didn't give it to them.
00:38Now we hit them.
00:39So it's really fun to build those suspense sequences with your pals and cinematographers and team
00:46and then see if they work and fine-tune them and have a great editor like Bob Murawski
00:52who can make almost anything work.

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