How was it filming that final confrontation with Monica Potter, who plays Maris mother Emma?
It wasn’t just with her. The confrontation has changed from the original. That was the most technical part of the movie. Actually dying was slow, technical, and shot over many days. That part was a learning experience and we had an amazing medic on set that had seen every sort of death in real life. He was advising us, “If someone gets shot or stabbed like this, this is what they do.” We were just trying to make it accurate. Was Wes or Sean hands-on at all? Wes wasn’t actually on the set. I didn’t meet Wes until about three months ago but I know he was very hands-on with constantly watching dailies. Sean was there almost the entire time. When I arrived there the first day, Sean picked us up and took us out for dinner. He’s fascinating. Every time I was with him, I made him tell me stories about the original Last House on the Left and Jason. His stories are unreal and he’s like this wealth of bizarre horror knowledge. I know Wes was very involved, but when he saw how well things were go
