Zee Zack - The advantage of having a cast, which is unknown, is the fact that you don't know who is really going to get killed. Cause you've got some very popular...very famous well known actors in Alone in the dark like Tara Reid and Christian Slater and so most of the people are going to presume that these people don't die or get killed off.
Uwe - Correct, this is a point in a movie like House of the dead. I think it is very important that you don't know who gets killed. Compared to other horror movies it is really surprisingly who survives and who is dying. With Alone in the Dark there is another appeal behind it. There is a small mystery and creepy atmosphere, and has-beens going on. There is a lot of action but…its not the question is Christian Slater surviving it. It is more like…What the fuck is going on?! It is a really, really interesting story with a lot of twists like what the game also is. This was the appeal from it. I think that Alone in the dark will be that what Matrix 2 wasn't. Matrix 2 I think was a big disappointment, because the story was so empty. I think with Alone in the dark, there will be a very interesting story like what I saw the last time, a movie with similar story like Matrix 1 basically.
Zee Zack - Your type of filmmaking is similar to that of Sam Raimi, do you believe that your projects could one day surpass the success of Evil Dead movies?
Uwe - I don't know. Evil dead is a really classic horror movie. And one of the…few basically they turned into classics in the last twenty-five years and the George A Romero Dawn of the dead movies are also one of them. I don't want to say that it is, that I can create something what is a classic because you don't know that before. I think the only thing what I try in every movie is that I try to make something different with what other people don't do and I think with house of the dead what I did was that battle scene. In the movie there's like the twelve minute big zombie battle. This is unusual for a horror movie and this is in that way how I did it. I think no body ever did it before. This is for me or for film freaks, horror freaks, video game freaks, I think it is that scene of the movie what is worth that the people go and see, because it is totally different from that what you know from other Freddy Versus Jason, Jeepers Creepers and Cabin Fever coming up now. Other typical teenage flesher movies where you have like one guy killed and then the next guy in a few minutes and then this is really like a big war! What we did there with I don't know how many dead people in 12 minutes and the like heads…loosing hands and head explosions and arm cut off and leg cut off and other…so this is what I always like to see the reactions during the showing of the movie…always the same…like they think "Oh typical teenage movie some nice lines and a little humour in the beginning and then they getting like a little into it, the action starts and it gets more brutal and then the battle scene is coming and then the people are like really, really split in half. Like the guys, they're like the 50%, they think its unbelievable like what the fuck! And the other 50% are so shocked…that they don't like it anymore....yeah....because of the gore for a lot of people it could be a little too much in the scene…yeah. And especially woman…(laughs) oh god like we were at the German horror fantasy film fest what is all over Germany like in Hamburg, Berlin etc and there is always this scene where some, especially woman, when they walk out...because it was then too much. But this was the set?!
Zee Zack - You explored the concept of zombies from other movies such as The Evil Dead, the Romero movies and Braindead. What elements did you take on board during the making of House of Dead and which ones are you bringing back for Alone in the Dark?
Uwe - The depending on zombies...I think what I tried is, that mood that George A Romero did in the zombie movies that you are really like freaking out because also your friends are turning into zombies'. This is what I wanted to bring to it, make it that the people feel it on House of the dead but because we did the video game movie approach, its not only a zombie movie its based on The House of the dead, one of the biggest zombie shooter games of all time. So I had to make the zombies like faster and using weapons and all that stuff. That's what makes it more dangerous also for our heroes, this is the big difference to the other zombie movies where the zombies are not really moving basically they can not really run and there's a difference. In Alone in the Dark we have also a type of attacker, they are like zombies because their infiltrated with worms, they getting like worms in their spinal cord and now they are turning into an attacking mode and what I really like on 28 Days Later is how he did the attacking of the zombies. Cause they were totally out of their minds and he did it with a shutter, he shut the stuff with the shutter so you actually see from 24 frames you see maybe only 12 frames. Yeah…this made it very, very creepy. I think.
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