Don Coscarelli’s (’Phantasm’, ‘Bubba Ho-tep’) long awaited new film, ‘John Dies at the End’, recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Bloody Disgusting scored an exclusive interview with the director.

You can read an excerpt from the B-D article below and be sure to check out the film’s trailer as well.

This film had a little help from Hollywood A-lister Paul Giamatti, who produced and plays a role in the film. He wanted to work with Coscarelli on Bubba Nosferatu, the aborted Bubba Ho-Tep sequel, so offered his services when Coscarelli read the David Wong book John Dies at the End.

x”Yeah, he wisely just said, ‘Let’s forget it. It’s too difficult. There’s too many tricky things.’” Giamatti said of ‘Nosferatu’. “He said, ‘I think I have another idea. I read this book and I’m working on a script on it and I’ll get it to you when I’m done’ and it was this movie. He sent me that and I thought it was fantastic and he seemed to think it would be easier to do than ‘Bubba Nosferatu.’”

Giamatti and Coscarelli laughed at the foolish thought that ‘John Dies’ could be an easier film. The complex story includes monsters, time travel, alternate dimensions and a drug called Soy Sauce. It is also a horror comedy, always a tricky tone.

“It’s got a lot of really strange stuff going on,” Coscarelli said. “Wwe were talking earlier about finding the right tone was probably the most absolutely difficult and frightening part of making the movie because we wanted to maintain the humor that’s in the book, but at the same time we never really wanted to go too camp so you wanted to have there be genuine threat from the characters, that they were terrified or whatever. Watching the movie last night, I think some of the most satisfying scenes to me were the way that Chase Williamson who played Dave, his bafflement as the story unfolds, he’s trying to figure out what’s going on as things just get weirder and weirder and weirder. He reacts very seriously to a lot but he does have some deadpan moments that I find really funny. He’s a really nice guy and good actors. You need to find actors like I was noticing last night that Glynn Turman who played the detective in the movie, he played it really dead ahead and he was very serious. Yet he’s got some of the funniest moments. It’s a very challenging part of making the thing.”

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