The moment when 'Insidious' Star Lin Shaye Realized the first movie was going to be a hit.
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00:00 We had no idea. I mean, we really, it was even James who said to me, he said,
00:04 you think people are going to like this? You know, what if we, why should, maybe we shouldn't kill
00:08 you? Cause what if we, what if the movie, what if we make another one? What if we do a number two?
00:12 And, and so I think, you know, when you create something, this was a very low budget. The first
00:20 one was a very low budget movie. It was three weeks shoot, you know, very minimal everything.
00:27 And you hope you're doing, you know, you hope you're creating something exciting for the public.
00:32 I mean, that's the whole idea. So I don't think we had any, we really didn't have any idea. It was
00:38 going to get to the point it's gotten to. I, the fact that I remember James, once it was accepted
00:43 to the Toronto film festival, that was a big deal because that's where all the sales happen.
00:49 And that was Sony purchased the film. I mean, and I remember James called, it was, I think he called
00:55 me or called Lee and Lee called me. I can't remember which, but there was a huge bidding war.
01:02 I mean, all of a sudden they showed the film. It was a standing ovation of like a thousand people.
01:07 And you know, there were watching different movies and, and there was a big bidding war.
01:11 And so James was all like, Oh my God, you know, we're, you know, we're, we're gonna, we're gonna,
01:16 this movie's going to get a release and we're going to do it. So it was very exciting for
01:21 everybody. And, and James still has that same enthusiasm about everything he does. He's,
01:26 I adore him and Lee Winell as well. The two of them are really special people and, you know,
01:32 great creators.
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