When people use the word violent I think of pain and suffering and you can t apply those terms to Braindead. The dangerous movies are the ones without blood, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre where the violence is on a psychological level, and karate films that make young people believe that you solve your problems by kicking someone. There are always those who say that you re not supposed to laugh at people getting killed on the screen. They have to understand that this is a comedy, a relevant sort of comedy. When the bloodshed gets this exaggerated it s just like Monty Python, only worse.
Splatter films are a very specific genre that a lot of people like.
Yeah, we had two film teams working simultaneously for six weeks. One team in the kitchen and the other in the hallway. I kept running back and forth to see what they were up to. It was hard work, but I never got any vacation. We went straight into the cutting room to get the film ready for Cannes.