I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

I hear what people say, I read all the reviews, all the blogs, and I am always curious to hear it, because you can't always listen to the good press, you have to hear the bad press, too.

I feel like in the '90s, horror just lost its way and everything became so safe and watered-down.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.

I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.