I got really obsessed by that film and I liked it a lot. I started to watch Brian De Palma films but I also started to read a little bit of King's work. I think King's genius is in short stories, which is a very tough literary genre to pull off.
But I think he's a great master in this contained way. it's what? 40 pages long or something, but if you read it right, you get a lot of the information there.
And, obviously, our film is longer. Our film had more material than is in the short story, but I feel very much that we are very true to the heart and soul of the short story. I feel like Enslin's character is the guy that Stephen King writes about in the short story, even if we trade a more ambitious backstory and so on.
So it started with and I haven't read everything. I think that nobody has read everything Stephen King wrote, because it's so much. But I read a lot of his short stories.
I think they are great. Samuel L Jackson on the Supernatural: Jackson s a believer and doesn t mind admitting it. I grew up in Tennessee around people who believe all kinds of things, explained Jackson.
I was told ghost stories at night by my grandfather and his brothers. One lady in my neighborhood, because I grew up in the segregated South so sometimes when we got hurt or sick or whatever, we couldn't afford to go to the doctor or even go to the hospital because we figured they weren't going to see us anyway, so they called what was known in our neighborhood as the 'root lady' who would actually come over. She'd put very stinky stuff on you and chant, good stuff.
And you would get well. She would take herbs and things and we bought chickens We didn't buy chickens from the store, we bought chickens off a truck. They were live chickens and we killed them.
She got the heads and feet. She did stuff with them. There were people who died in our neighborhood that we saw long after they were dead.
If you were out at night and looking around the wrong place, doing something wrong and you'd look up and there would be that lady who used to call your house and tell your mother you were doing something wrong. You'd be like, She's dead. She's not supposed to be here and she is.
And you weren't the only person that saw her. It was kind of like we had phenomenon like that, that went on throughout my life. Jackson continued, People would tell you stories about places you could go.
There was a school bus that turned over in this particular place and if you go there at a certain time of night, you can hear the kids crying and hear the screeches of the tires. And we'd go there and, sure enough, you d hear it. So there are lots of things that we can't explain that somebody somewhere has seen these things and they write about them.
Some people remember them vividly enough to write about them. But there are lots and lots of things that we can't explain that are just part of our culture. The Rumors of Eli Roth s Involvement: Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura acknowledges that at one point I got really obsessed by that film and I liked it a lot.
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