-In the clip we showed when
we first had you come out, your brother is in there.
Your brother is one of the co-stars in that film.
-Yes. Yes, my brother Paul.
The David Lee Roth of the group. -Right.
-As we've mentioned. Yes, yeah, Paul got to be in it.
And he plays -- he plays -- he plays Carl Glatzel.
-Have you guys ever been in a film before?
-We actually did do one other movie together
called "Big Stone Gap."
But this was a great deal for him to be in the movie.
And he auditioned totally on his own.
I had nothing to do with his audition.
You know, once it got to a point,
I was like, "That's my brother!" [ Laughter ]
And then -- yeah, it was awesome.
I mean, you know, as you know, regardless of how a movie does,
your movie is defined by the experience you have.
-Yeah. -So for me, I had this house
down in Atlanta when we shot it.
And having him there for a couple months,
we hadn't lived together, you know, since we were kids.
So, it was awesome. -Now, a lot of times,
these horror movies are all special effects
and they're not particularly scary onset.
-Yeah, this is true. -But you know, this was
from the second film where you had a wonderful,
this is a genuine -- this is a person.
-Yeah, Javier. Yeah. -Obviously in make up.
But this seemed like it would actually be terrifying
in real time. -And I've done a few of them.
Of all the horror movies that I've done,
working with Javier on that scene in particular,
we finished the take and I said,
"That's the scariest thing that I've ever done."
Because usually again, it's all done technically.
-Yeah, but -- -But the way that he --
but the way that he can move,
and he shot this whole sequence backwards.
This is a true story.
And he shot it backwards
and then we played it forwards.
But it looks like it's done digitally and it's just not.
It probably wasn't as scary to the audience as it was to me
being in the room watching it.
Terrifying, totally terrifying.
-It does strike me that your kids are the age
where they might want to engage in horror movies like this.
-Yeah. -Have they seen these films?
Do they like them? -They have. They have.
They love them.
And I feel like a terrible parent
every time they watch them.
Because my 11-year-old who loves it,
who's fascinated by it, you know.
But we're always like, God, please don't wake up
and have a nightmare 'cause then I'm just going to
feel like the worst. -It seems like that's
technically the age where it would be okay to watch a movie
like that. -It gets there.
It gets there. I mean, he's also --
They're also, you know, they've grown up on sets,
so they'll still -- they're demystified in one sense
because they see it all happening.
But yet when it's still put together,
for them, there's still that wonderful child imagination.
-Alright, is there stuff that you've done
that they're just flat out bored?
And, if so, do they ever tell you? Or are they good?
Are they good kids, that they're like,
"That was another A-plus, Dad."
-No, yeah, I don't know if I get that.
I mean, they're still teenagers. -Right.
-Like, "No, it's good, Dad, it's really good."
Yeah. No, they're super supportive.
They love coming to all the sets.
-Was like "Aquaman" for them a fun set to be on?
I would imagine. -"Aquaman" was cool because
we shot the first one in Australia.
So for them, it was -- -Right.
-But when you talk about "Aquaman" in Australia,
they're not talking about going to set.
They're talking about the beach and everything else.
So, it's like -- "Yeah, Dad's at work."
You're inside all day. It's in a stage.
-When you went to -- you mentioned that you went
and saw the screening of the new movie.
-Yeah. -Were people aware
that you were there? -No.
No, we totally surprised them.
-Oh, but then did you reveal. -Yes.
-Gotcha. -Ta-da!
Thank God, cause my fear was like I'd go, "Hey!"
And they'd go, "Who are you?" Be the worst.
-You wait until the end of the movie.
-So terrible.
No, but you know, it was awesome.
Because that was the opening night,
and of course, I said,
"I want to see a show of hands,
how many people have seen all seven films,"
this being the seventh.
And so many hands went up.
But what was cool, is I swear to you,
about 80% of that audience,
it was their first time in a theater since the pandemic.
So to me, yes, I want you to see the movie,
but just to see how people are coming back
to the movies was such a huge, huge deal for me.
-Because it's also, you can see it --
-Yeah, you can see it at home on HBO Max.
-So that really I think speaks to the value
of that collective experience of going to the movies.
-Yeah, it does. It really does.
I mean, right now we can see on it any format that works for us.
But, you know, there's nothing like going to the movies.
-Yeah. Well, thanks, man,
for making the time and being here in person.
Really appreciate it.
Congrats on the film. -Thanks, buddy.
-"The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It"
is in theatres and on HBO Max now.