Tim Matheson Quotes

My favorite zany horror flick is 'Evil Dead 2.' Sam Raimi is awesome! I saw this back in the day when I was younger. 'Evil Dead' was actually scary, and 'Evil Dead 2' was zany as hell. I don't really watch 'Army of Darkness' though.

I did a series of these soft-core horror movies called 'Mirror Mirror.' I got killed in 'em all - and each time, I came back as a different character. They were all straight-to-video.

For young filmmakers, Saw is a perfect film. It doesn't cost the GNP of almost every country of the world.

I spent years working in low-budget horror films. When you've done 'Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death,' you can handle anything!

'Lesbian Vampire Killers' was quite embarrassing.

This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are.

'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.

'Insidious' is independent. It's like the 'Clerks' of horror films, you know?

The great thing about horror films is that they work on a low budget. The genre is the star. You don't need big movie stars, and I actually think a lot of times that the best horror films are the low budget contained ones.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

I love my horror films and they will always be very close to me.

I've never seen 'Evil Dead 2.' Sorry about that. I'm sorry to the world.

And we know Bruce Campbell from way back, so that was a lot of fun.

It's difficult to do a genre film well, and it doesn't matter if you're talking vampire movies or 'Dawn of the Dead' or 'The Thing' or 'Escape From New York.' Those kind of movies, they understand what the old-school B-movie is supposed to be, they get the throwback of it.

I'm obsessed with horrible movies.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

Strategically, horror films are a good way to start your career. You can get a lot of impact with very little.

I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

With horror movies, a bigger budget is actually your enemy. You want to feel the rough edges, the handmade quality to good horror films. It's a genre that benefits from not having everything at your disposal.

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'

I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was 'Event Horizon.'

I tend to fall more into the fun horror genre than the traumatic horror genre. I love the films where you're laughing as much as screaming, but that doesn't mean I don't like the other ones.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.