Danny
28-Jul-2006, 06:32 AM
allright so im posting away on hpotd as usual and i post in one of the thread s something about old stlye slasher films like texas chain saw an' that and i finally get the gusto to be arsed to write a script.
which i do and its so good im really taking the film seriously and the writing was awesome i just needed a location for my 'bring back slasher films' project (couldnt think up a name yet), so i look and look but its all the same places from my younger amatuer films, but im really trying to give it that professional edge right?
so im driving with my mom to drop our old sofa off at a homeless shelter since we dont need it no more and as we head through stafforshire....which is nothing but countryside ala lord of the rings shire style, i see strachting achres of untamed woodlands, and if you remember i said in another post how i found in this area a cobblestone road and bits of an old gallows and crap right?....probably not, anyhoo i now had a script and a location.
but i better stop this story to explain the films story a little,
so heres the skinny (hey ive never said that before:) ).
for some reason i aint going to elaborate on now as it gives away some stuff theres a family of mad ,murderous inbreeding people, descended from a shunned paranoid noble family from back in medieval times, village was abandoned becuase nobles got more adn more mental but they stayed there for the generations ect, ect. im sure you get the idea. they bascally think ''everyone else has dirty blood but we are pure others just dont deserve to live", yadda ,yadda ,yadda.
no problem ill find people to play most of em but a problem would soon arise.
but i need to eplain the 'slash-ees'.
since its set in the woods that have grown over an old town theres rumors and sutch that leads three groups of sorts into the woods.
1: 3 goth girls into the whole "wiccan thing" (yes i did the doctor evil hand quote thing :lol: ) they go in to burn candles and pray to ''the godess'' adn all that jazz but get lost (yes at least one will die in the first half hour:elol: )
one is brave headstrong, ect and is the heroin of the story other two are your basic fodder that look up to her.
2:group of ghost hunters (cough-nerds!-cough) that go in to investigate rumors they meet up with the girls and head into the ruined town.
3:guy and his girlfreind rob local store and hogh tail it outta there but decide to avoid cops by taking dissuesd road (yeah there dead fast) they crash bike and get lost in woods team up with other guys as they make gruesome discovery and **** unfolds.
simple casting huh?
you got brave girl
crybaby girls
nerds
brave nerd who becomes unlikely hero
'bad boy'
plus abligotory blond bad girl (SO dead!:skull: )
and "the family" the group of bizaare nutters in the ruins.
simple, since i live inbetween city and countryside i can get a varied cast from freinds and contacts but heres the deal that sparked this problem...
the lead crazy.
the leader of this so called ''family'', since this was a serious script no tongue in cheeck jokes or bruce cambell quotes in it i felt to really capture the evil twisted mind of him who for the sake of argument well call...duke red.
see i wanted viewers to get the whole overview adn the moment they see him go "oh yeah, hes ****ing crazy as hell", kinda like a cross between the long haired guy from house of 1000 corpses and the ultmate bad guy , lord summerisle from the wicker man, i saw this duke red as a cross between the two, one minute calculating and cruel the next pyschotic and well....freakin' daffy.
so no freinds could play this part, so i posted something at my college message board :
"director danny smith looking for male actor willing to play a lead role in indie slasher film , non profit more of a prove your talent and get your name out there kinda gig, if interested me email at...."
going well right?, cool script, cool cast ,so far, awesome location since my contacts in the building industry my nerdy love of warhammer and making the terrain and my own imagination meant for no money i could make a decent set so far in the woos no one would **** with it , and if they did it would just look more natural anyway.
oh and a kickass dircetor, becuase like all directors (and i mean all kiddies) were legend sin our own minds who think were "BAD ASS MOTHER ****ERS!" to quote jim carrey:lol:
well i get a few replys form drama students.
...and, rather confusingly, a reply from a guy saying i stole his name....:confused:
two were good, very good but wanted paying, and i wanted to make something for nothing, just to see if i could y'know?
then in comes "number 16" a mr. knights, i aint gonna say his first name cus i think hed probably sue if he found out i mentioned him by name later in life,lol.
anywya he pulls off creepy dead well, has the walk to match the talk and suits the part to a T.
thats were the problems started.
we start filming and we have a great day, even though a freind wrote on the directors chair i got off ebay "cock-master" in tip-ex.:lol:
day two a building aka curbmling front we ran over with car to make it look "authentic" gets set alit by my stoner freind dropping a match on flammable paint that wasnt completely dry.
note - this is the jay to my silent bob i mentioned in another thread.
i got ****ed to which he replyed "yo, calm down hodge-podge muther ****a!"
which made us all laugh but oh no, not mr knights, he calls him a "neanderthal". to which we have to pull this guy away before he clocks mr knights, and after another day of putting down all the other actors im wanting to kill this guy, but his acting is really, really good im ashamed to say so i put up with it.
but then next weekedn sicne we filmed each free sunday or other i get a call from a girl playing on of the goth girls she says she hurt her wrist ,i ask how and she says mr knights pushed her when she said she didnt wawnt to go out with him when he asked.
so he shows up and calls her a "lying slag of an extra, and dead wieght that needs to be dropped". now ive known this girl for about a decade and she wouldnt lie.
needless to say i punched the bastard and told him to get lost, but now we gotta recast, and re film, no bigee really i just hate scoping for actors as the student ones are all premaddonnas.
bastards.:mad:
which i do and its so good im really taking the film seriously and the writing was awesome i just needed a location for my 'bring back slasher films' project (couldnt think up a name yet), so i look and look but its all the same places from my younger amatuer films, but im really trying to give it that professional edge right?
so im driving with my mom to drop our old sofa off at a homeless shelter since we dont need it no more and as we head through stafforshire....which is nothing but countryside ala lord of the rings shire style, i see strachting achres of untamed woodlands, and if you remember i said in another post how i found in this area a cobblestone road and bits of an old gallows and crap right?....probably not, anyhoo i now had a script and a location.
but i better stop this story to explain the films story a little,
so heres the skinny (hey ive never said that before:) ).
for some reason i aint going to elaborate on now as it gives away some stuff theres a family of mad ,murderous inbreeding people, descended from a shunned paranoid noble family from back in medieval times, village was abandoned becuase nobles got more adn more mental but they stayed there for the generations ect, ect. im sure you get the idea. they bascally think ''everyone else has dirty blood but we are pure others just dont deserve to live", yadda ,yadda ,yadda.
no problem ill find people to play most of em but a problem would soon arise.
but i need to eplain the 'slash-ees'.
since its set in the woods that have grown over an old town theres rumors and sutch that leads three groups of sorts into the woods.
1: 3 goth girls into the whole "wiccan thing" (yes i did the doctor evil hand quote thing :lol: ) they go in to burn candles and pray to ''the godess'' adn all that jazz but get lost (yes at least one will die in the first half hour:elol: )
one is brave headstrong, ect and is the heroin of the story other two are your basic fodder that look up to her.
2:group of ghost hunters (cough-nerds!-cough) that go in to investigate rumors they meet up with the girls and head into the ruined town.
3:guy and his girlfreind rob local store and hogh tail it outta there but decide to avoid cops by taking dissuesd road (yeah there dead fast) they crash bike and get lost in woods team up with other guys as they make gruesome discovery and **** unfolds.
simple casting huh?
you got brave girl
crybaby girls
nerds
brave nerd who becomes unlikely hero
'bad boy'
plus abligotory blond bad girl (SO dead!:skull: )
and "the family" the group of bizaare nutters in the ruins.
simple, since i live inbetween city and countryside i can get a varied cast from freinds and contacts but heres the deal that sparked this problem...
the lead crazy.
the leader of this so called ''family'', since this was a serious script no tongue in cheeck jokes or bruce cambell quotes in it i felt to really capture the evil twisted mind of him who for the sake of argument well call...duke red.
see i wanted viewers to get the whole overview adn the moment they see him go "oh yeah, hes ****ing crazy as hell", kinda like a cross between the long haired guy from house of 1000 corpses and the ultmate bad guy , lord summerisle from the wicker man, i saw this duke red as a cross between the two, one minute calculating and cruel the next pyschotic and well....freakin' daffy.
so no freinds could play this part, so i posted something at my college message board :
"director danny smith looking for male actor willing to play a lead role in indie slasher film , non profit more of a prove your talent and get your name out there kinda gig, if interested me email at...."
going well right?, cool script, cool cast ,so far, awesome location since my contacts in the building industry my nerdy love of warhammer and making the terrain and my own imagination meant for no money i could make a decent set so far in the woos no one would **** with it , and if they did it would just look more natural anyway.
oh and a kickass dircetor, becuase like all directors (and i mean all kiddies) were legend sin our own minds who think were "BAD ASS MOTHER ****ERS!" to quote jim carrey:lol:
well i get a few replys form drama students.
...and, rather confusingly, a reply from a guy saying i stole his name....:confused:
two were good, very good but wanted paying, and i wanted to make something for nothing, just to see if i could y'know?
then in comes "number 16" a mr. knights, i aint gonna say his first name cus i think hed probably sue if he found out i mentioned him by name later in life,lol.
anywya he pulls off creepy dead well, has the walk to match the talk and suits the part to a T.
thats were the problems started.
we start filming and we have a great day, even though a freind wrote on the directors chair i got off ebay "cock-master" in tip-ex.:lol:
day two a building aka curbmling front we ran over with car to make it look "authentic" gets set alit by my stoner freind dropping a match on flammable paint that wasnt completely dry.
note - this is the jay to my silent bob i mentioned in another thread.
i got ****ed to which he replyed "yo, calm down hodge-podge muther ****a!"
which made us all laugh but oh no, not mr knights, he calls him a "neanderthal". to which we have to pull this guy away before he clocks mr knights, and after another day of putting down all the other actors im wanting to kill this guy, but his acting is really, really good im ashamed to say so i put up with it.
but then next weekedn sicne we filmed each free sunday or other i get a call from a girl playing on of the goth girls she says she hurt her wrist ,i ask how and she says mr knights pushed her when she said she didnt wawnt to go out with him when he asked.
so he shows up and calls her a "lying slag of an extra, and dead wieght that needs to be dropped". now ive known this girl for about a decade and she wouldnt lie.
needless to say i punched the bastard and told him to get lost, but now we gotta recast, and re film, no bigee really i just hate scoping for actors as the student ones are all premaddonnas.
bastards.:mad: