What are the pros and cons of being a cult film icon?
It’s great to have a fan base. The disadvantage is that I’m more stereotyped outside the industry than I am within. If all you watch is horror films, that’s all you’re going to know me for. There’s other stuff out there, too, but rabid fans tend to home in and only watch very specific genres. There are verbatim lines of dialogue in the new film from my encounters with fans – anywhere from “Did working with Ellen turn you gay?” to “Why did you make ‘Serving Sara’?” I had a conversation with a wheelchair fan who was the rudest person on the planet. And what are you going to do? You have to be nice to this person because they’re in a wheelchair, but you want to kick them in front of a bus. In the movie, I get to do that. Fanboys and fangirls have asked you to autograph their bodies, then had your signature tattooed in place permanently. Does that strike you as a little weird? It’s great. I just did eight of them in one night. They come up and say, ‘Here you go, I shaved a spot for you.’ I
