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Extreme close-ups, stark high-def imagery and pounding audio gave the footage an astonishing presence somewhere between horror movie, Kiss concert and fever dream.

After He’s scary — he’s not really a superhero…. He doesn’t wear tights, he doesn’t have, like, you know, invisibility power,” co-director Taylor said. “His power is, he sucks out your soul. Like that’s the Ghost Rider’s superpower. That’s insane — it’s totally insane.”

Cage embraced the amped-up take on the Ghost Rider character, whose powers include the Penance Stare, the ultimate crazy-eyes look that causes those who receive it to relive past sins. (Could there be a superpower more befitting Cage, who truly shines when brings the crazy?) Clearly relishing ’s horrifying tone, Cage said it fits with the character’s evolution since the last film.

“Johnny Blaze has been living for several years now having had his head catch on fire, so it’s had a little bit of an effect on his mood,” Cage deadpanned. “In the first movie, he was kind of an innocent goofball — he was keeping the ignition at bay. This one, he’s been living with it for several years and it certainly has made him a bit more sarcastic, a bit more edgy [and] ironic.”

There’s possibly no directing team more capable of capturing that edginess and insanity than Taylor and his partner Mark Neveldine, who work under the name Neveldine/Taylor . movies — and for their innovative and risky filming methods.

An outrageous behind-the-scenes reel screened at Comic-Con showed off Neveldine and Taylor’s utterly unorthodox style, with the daredevil directors riding on rollerblades, hanging off the backs of motorcycles and dangling from wires over steep cliffs while clutching cameras to capture death-defying footage.