Whats the difference between a doll and a ventriloquist dummy?
A doll just sits there. A ventriloquist’s dummy has a ventriloquist behind it giving it life, and I love the whole psychological aspect of who’s really in control. That’s what makes it scary for me, and that’s why I had a ventriloquist puppet and a puppet master in the first Saw film and why my second movie was all about ventriloquism. Something that isn’t supposed to have life seems to have life. Have you ever tried to do ventriloquism? No, I think I’d suck at it. But I really respect it. Your ventriloquist movie, Dead Silence, didn’t do well. It did okay on DVD and ancillary, but it definitely wasn’t Saw. I think I should have made Dead Silence as an independent movie. I mean, the fact that Insidious was not being run by a committee really afforded me the luxury to make a film with lots of creepy, bizarre moments that a studio might not “get.” How involved are you with the Saw franchise these days? They run things by me, but the producers on the Saw films have it down to a T. They do
