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Quote: "Before we started production, Steve Miner screened a few 3-D movies for us, and I saw Dial 'M' for Murder for the first time. Do you remember the scene with the scissors, where the guy tries to strangle Grace Kelly with her stockings? She was lying backwards on this desk and reaching right out towards the audience. I said to myself, 'This is what the movie is - right here!' There was nothing to it. The previous writers had done at least a decent job, but I ended up writing three drafts. I suggested close-ups and what people had in their hands and certain angles so things could push toward the camera. No one paid much attention to whether it was realistic.
I was never under any pressure to flesh out the characters, only to work on the circumstances of how the next kid gets slashed. There was definitely a discussion of types: 'This guy has to be a good guy. This one has to be a bad girl. This one smokes. This one is sexually experienced.' Those decisions were made very quickly. Nobody agonized over any of this. Because a lot of the movie is a field trip of sorts. You're out in nature, hiding behind a bush and there is the obligatory amount of sex, or suggestion that some of these people are couples. Because when one of them gets it, it's obligatory that the other one gets it, too. But even then, it's on the most superficial level." - pg. 78, Crystal Lake Memories
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