00:00The whole thing is, I think we're almost the same age, 40-year-somethings.
00:05And, you know, the mummy for us is probably Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz.
00:12And this is something so completely different.
00:15Yeah.
00:15Was that your intention, to make a new memory, if you will?
00:20Totally. I think that's what I'm always trying to do.
00:23I think even when I went and made Evil Dead Rise in my last movie,
00:26part of my goal was to make an Evil Dead movie for maybe a younger audience
00:30that had never experienced a movie like this for the first time.
00:34This is a different approach with my mummy movie.
00:37But nonetheless, it was all about planting a very, very different flag in the ground.
00:42And the goal for myself and James Wan and Jason Blum and all of my partners
00:46and all the creative people that wanted to make the movie with me
00:50was let's make the scariest mummy movie that there ever has been.
00:53And that's what we set out to do.
00:55And I'm hoping we've achieved it.
00:57Well, yeah, I'm only one person, but I can tell you yes for me.
01:02Glad to hear it.
01:03You know, I actually, I really enjoyed Evil Dead Rise as well.
01:08I thought that was an amazing film.
01:10And I love how you're combining all these horror genres.
01:14It feels a little bit like you're white shoes.
01:18Would you say that that's a trademark?
01:19That's becoming a trademark?
01:21I think so.
01:22No, I think I take my influences from a lot of different places.
01:26And I knew, for me, I always want to grow as a filmmaker as well.
01:30I'm very, very humbled and proud that I get to do the job that I do.
01:34And I never want to repeat the trick.
01:37So with Evil Dead, it was a movie that was quite contained in the dark at the top of a
01:41building.
01:41And I knew my next movie, I still want to entertain the audience that love my work and beyond that
01:47with the crazy things that I do.
01:49But I wanted to tell a story on a bigger canvas.
01:51That was important to me.
01:53So I knew I wanted, with my next movie, I wanted there to be more of a mystery and maybe
01:57more of a detective story.
01:58But how could I make that work with this mummy idea, this idea of mummification for a different reason?
02:04It's not just about burying the royal family of the time.
02:08What if somebody close to you was mummified and why would that happen?
02:12So I got to bring body horror and psychological horror and detective story and all of these different elements that
02:20I think can coexist in a movie because they're all filled with dread and tension and they all form part
02:27of the machine, the rollercoaster ride, the fun time that I want you to have at the movies.
02:33Yeah.
02:33Yeah.
02:34And especially in that family setting, it's top notch.
02:37Thank you.
02:38And I just want to point out, I know you have an amazing team, but someone that, as a Dutch
02:44person, really, well, popped on the screen for me was Arjen, of course.
02:50Yes.
02:51During the prosthetics for the design.
02:53What was it like to work with him?
02:54He did Wolfman before this, of course, and now we see him on another classic monster movie.
03:00Yeah.
03:01Yeah.
03:01Arjen's an incredible artist.
03:04He's a very focused and dedicated creator.
03:08And so we first started to engage.
03:10One of the things that we talked about was how I needed to show this monster in full daylight, but
03:15I also needed to be a monster that there's an evolution.
03:17It's not obvious right away.
03:19It's something that is awakening inside this family home rather than just boo, I'm here.
03:24So we started to talk and it fitted the metaphor of the movie, all of these layers that were there
03:29and how decomposition could take place and how the strength of the evil in the story could start to change
03:35how our monster looked.
03:37And Arjen's, as I said, very, very detailed, very, very focused in what he does and an incredible artist to
03:44work with.
03:45Yeah.
03:45That toenail scene.
03:47I mean, that's one of those scenes in Black Swan, you know, where she rips off the finger thing.
03:52That's the same.
03:53It had the same feeling.
03:54You could feel it.
03:55Yeah.
03:56That's what I want you to do.
03:57I want you to feel all the things.
03:59I want you to feel the emotion of the family.
04:01I want you to feel the crazy physical moments and I want you to just, yeah, feel entertained.
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