Eli Roth’s ‘A Ghost Ruined My Life’ Returns For Season 2: ‘It’s So Much Scarier’ – National

If you missed the first season of Eli Roth says: A ghost ruined my lifeTake heart – the acclaimed horror director is back for the second season of his paranormal show, and it seems to be scarier this time around.

With the supernatural experiences of ordinary people, A ghost ruined my life introduces footage and re-enacts the story of a variety of unexplained events, from haunting to mysterious to simple eerie. Roth and his team solicit stories from the public and are specifically looking for skeptics and disbelievers, whose brushes with the supernatural are often so traumatizing that they convert to believers.

Global News spoke with executive producer Roth about Season 2, their story selection process, and how he managed to keep the show scary.

Global News: A second season! Are you excited to be back with this series?
Eli Roth: Sure. I feel very fortunate that they gave us a chance with Season 1, and we really had to improve and see what worked and what didn’t and build on what made the show so perfect. totally scary.

What’s different about this season, if anything?
Part 2 is much, much scarier. In part 1, we put out an appeal for anyone who has been tracked by a ghost or paranormal entity and we received about 20 submissions that are true stories. For the benefit of the people who watched the first season, we had over 300 people, so we could really choose eight horrifying stories to tell. People really opened up to us, it was unbelievable.

Do you still tell the stories of people from different age groups and classes?
We try. We don’t want to see the same thing happen to the same kind of people. One of the challenges is not repeating yourself, but every phobia is different. I’m often on the lookout for amazing stories that happened to people where you would absolutely never believe a paranormal experience would happen. Skeptics, non-believers, they’re the best because they tell a large audience that wants to believe in ghosts, but shouldn’t believe it completely.

I understand something creepy happened during filming. Did the camera just go off in the middle of the interview? Can you tell me more about that?
That happens sometimes but there’s usually an explanation for it. In this case, none. Cameras are working fine, we arrive at the haunted location, subject warns us that they will know we are talking about them, and lights are blinking or camera is broken. It’s crazy, but we just accept it as part of the implementation of the show.

So are the stories so scary? Any plans to turn any of these into a horror movie?
Very. When you see the paranormal attack that a couple is captured on camera this is amazing. They’ve never shared footage before, and that’s confusing. I want to turn some stories into horror movies, but for now the focus is on telling their stories as honestly as possible. We don’t judge, we edit where we need to legally protect someone’s identity, but we just let them tell us what happened and we shoot horror scenes. weird about the scariest parts.

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The footage is said to show the woman’s leg being pulled over her head by a ‘evil spirit’ while sleeping

Is there anything that’s really stuck with you as you move on with your life? Why?
That couch attack really stuck with me. We’ve all slept on the couch but many of us have our legs pulled over our heads when lying on our stomachs. The scene is scary, it’s not a pose you can recreate even if you’re a master yogi.

Many performances in this style use scarecropping and other sounding techniques. Do you find ways to avoid these, and what do you do to give an authentic performance?
I feel like you get a jump for each story. Fear is involuntary and dancing can be fun, but more than that it feels cheap and unsafe, like you’re out of stock and you’re overcompensating with a piece of music. We try to find stories that are simply disturbing and creepy. Things are out of place, children and dogs behaving oddly, all of which can be a lot scarier than a jump.

It’s important to tell the story as honestly as possible, and the story itself is so scary that you don’t have to force it.

What do you have next? Stick with the small screen or plan to return to the big screen?
I’ll be on Pandora for a while longer to do Borderlands, then I want to go back to spill some blood on the big screen. I remember it.

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Season 2 of ‘Eli Roth Presents: A Ghost Ruined My Life’ premieres on T+E on Friday, October 14 at 10 p.m. ET/PT during the channel’s annual Creep Week televised event, taking place out October 8-16.

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