The Quarry Director Will Byles Names His Horror Movie Favorites And How They Inspired The Game – Exclusive – Looper

Naturally, "The Quarry" is chock-full of blood, horror, and gore throughout, including a scene where one of the counselors uses a chainsaw to amputate another one of the counselor's hands. A scene like that can only point in the direction of "Evil Dead"franchise antihero Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell), who used a chainsaw to lop off his possessed hand in director Sam Raimi's 1987 horror film classic "Evil Dead II." Byles said it wasn't done by coincidence.

"'Evil Dead II' is probably my favorite [horror film]," Byles told Looper. "I love 'Evil Dead,' but 'Evil Dead II' has the bigger budget. It is genius. I massively, hugely admire Sam Raimi. He's an incredible filmmaker."

Byles added that another one of his all-time favorite horror films is writer director John Landis' 1981 landmark horror film, "An American Werewolf in London."

"There are a few nods to that in 'The Quarry.' A [college rejection] letter in the game is from Landis University. ['An American Werewolf in London' is] a genius film and we paid homage to a large part of that, including the music style of the game," Byles revealed. "We've used a lot of [Landis' style of] incongruous, slightly oddly felt juxtaposition with light, frothy music and really nasty horror. That was really important that we went down that route."

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The Quarry Director Will Byles Names His Horror Movie Favorites And How They Inspired The Game - Exclusive - Looper