“Everybody was in this boat.
It wasn’t just me, it was the whole crew.
We were all showing up every day petrified.”
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He is sent to small town outside of Boston to cover some story.
But what he stumbles upon is something much bigger and he knows it.
And so begins the tale of meeting this young girl who has channeled “Mary” somehow.
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We’d heard rumblings of COVID but we didn’t think it was going to change the world.
That was the first thing where I was like, well, that’s crazy.
I think our film was the last movie on the eastern seaboard to still be shooting.
At this point, it was fear.
Finally, the movie got shut down.
Cut to eight months later and we finally got back and with many many Zoom calls in between.
It was much more COVID-based than it was film-based for a while.
But then we got back into the flow.
And now, by the way, the only place I feel safe is on sets.
They’re the safest places to be right now.
That does explain why Cary is wearing a kilt for half of his scenes.
[Laughs] If you know Cary, that’s probably a character choice.
The last time we spoke was for another Sam Raimi-produced horror film,The Possession.
Are you a fan of the genre, generally?Yeah.
I’m a fan of film, period.
I see pretty much everything as it comes out.
But I love horror, I love horror.
His mother showed him his first Hitchcock movie yesterday.
They watchedPsychoyesterday when I was at work and I came home to an 11-year-old talking 500 miles-an-hour aboutPsycho.
He writes and stars in as every character these little horror movies that he makes.
I’m not a big slasher film guy, even though I do see all of them.
I think there’s a couple of people that do them really well.
I just recently saw a movie calledUncle Peckerhead.
I’ve become friendly with the filmmaker.
He did it for a budget of like $150,000 and it is brilliant.
I don’t want to give much away.
You should check it out.
[Laughs] It’s a very funny movie.
This was something a friend of mine, Matthew Leutwyler, directed.
Everybody in that movie, we were we still are really good friends.
We shot it in a house outside of San Francisco.
The house was owned, oddly enough, by John Madden, the football guy.
We just destroyed this house with gallons and gallons and gallons of blood.
It’s got this kind of an amazing cast.
It’s Ever Carradine, Jeremy Sisto, Erik Palladino.
Oz Perkins Anthony Perkins' son.
This is before he really started directing, so we shot this a long time ago.
He’s so good in it too.
It’s half-musical, half-horror, all comedy.
But it’s a very funny movie.
It’s different to anything you’ve ever seen before.
At one point, all the zombies start doing like a line dance that’s reminiscent of a badThriller.
It was absolutely just some friends getting together and having some fun.
This Sunday’s season finale ofThe Walking Deadis a big episode for you.
Could you tease that a little?Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I’m very proud of it.
It’s the “Here’s Negan” story.
I always wanted to tell the story and I always wanted her to play Lucille.
It was just my wife coughing on me and it worked out great.
But it’s a great story.
I’m looking forward to it.
It’s going to be a fun weekend, I hope.
The Unholystars Katie Aselton and William Sadler and is released Friday.
Watch the film’s trailer above.
The Walking Deadfinale airs Sunday at 9 p.m.
