Interesting interview with late great Brion James...

(Interviewer Louis Paul, August 1999)

LP: THE HORROR SHOW, was that designed for sequels?

BJ: Yes. They wanted me to be the next Freddy Kreuger. I read the script, it was bad. Lance Henriksen came and he saw it. We spoke to each other and I said I'll do it if you will, and vice versa. We told the producer Sean Cunningham, that we liked it, so when are we doin' it. And he said "O.K. So we made it a horror-fi. I made this guy intelligent, evil. In the script he was a mindless slasher, there was nothing to it. It was evil for evil's sake. So I made the guy a person with a history. Child of seven, molested by his mother, child of thirteen kills his parents. That way the audience can see that 'Max' was not a regular child and that's what *beep* him up. I'll always show and tell something, to the people, about the guy, how sick he is. It was just fun, having fun playing a maniac. We had a lot of fun on that film, and it became a video cult hit.

LP: But not enough of a hit to generate a sequel?

BJ: No, thank God. Because I don't want to do that kind of a role. One time's enough.