Blood Creek Woodsman Pick-Ups

Rob gets Adam all bloody for some pick-up shots. Thanks for the location, Floyd!


It's the happy couple!


Splattery foam latex guts!


Making bloody horror movies RAAAAAAWKS!!!!!!

Dug a hole...

Dug a hole in my back yard last night. My son came home and asked me what I was doing and I told him I was going to shoot a scene where a girl is laying half in the hole, her lower section covered in grass and dirt and fake blood & guts on her belly, so she looks like she was cut in half. He said he thought I was digging a grave. I said I kind of was. Then he said that it was actually kind of cool. Indeed.

Also started on another paper mache prop - covered a halloween plastic skull with a plastic bag and paper mache'd over it. Step by step...

Late last night the girl who is going to get killed in a scene on Sunday said her boss had put her on the work schedule for Sunday and she had to work until 5, so she couldn't be there at 2:45. I suggested we could still do it, just shuffle a few things around, so now she will be there at 5:30. Hope it all goes well.

On it goes...

Eat at The Markum Inn!

Well look what I found!



Not only do they have great burgers and desserts, but I shot a huge amount of BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN at Ward's restaurant and house, too. Ward plays a bartender in the movie, a role he also played in my movie UNDERBELLY that I shot there a few years back. He also helped scout a bunch of other locations for the movie and even lined up a sweet police car for us!

Blood Creek Woodsman - October Shoot Pix

Still shooting on BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN. Shot on some private property in Dallas, Oregon for the movie's opening logging scene. The forecast was for afternoon showers, but it only sprinkled a few times! I also was very happy to have several old friends show up to act as cast and crew. Not only were they very helpful but they couldn't wait for their death scenes! True horror fans, all of them. As the day went on, we got more and more involved in squirting blood all over everyone and didn't really get any pictures, but here is what we did get.


Adam is mad...and Brent has no idea what's coming...


Bob as Jason the foreman


Craig waits with tubing up his pants while Rob prepares for rain...both water from the sky and blood from a pump!


Bob runs the blood-filled super soaker while Adam tries not to saw anything off and I try to get it all on tape!


Craig is impressed with Rob's chainsaw blade effect.


YEEEEARRRGGGGGH!


All smiles! Adam, me and Craig after a particular bloody death scene!


Rick in mid-splatter!

Blood Creek Woodsman - September Shoot Pix

Here are a bunch of pictures from the September 2009 shoot for BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN!


Happy campers Darla Doom and Francis Growth.


One flashlight and two headlights.


Branch through the head rig I made for Darla Doom!


Pair of fake legs I made. I should've taken a picture before I covered it all with foam and t-shirts - it's closet rods and hinges underneath.


Shooting upstairs with Mike on sound and Daren waiting for his close-up!


Shooting the "party house" scene. They are playing a game I made up called Sweet Corn!


Jaime screams for the first time in a movie...and she was great!


Annie performed a fantastic death scene!


Annie and Rob bask in the blood!


Hot chicks...kissing! Nice.


William meets the Blood Creek Woodsman.


Annie and Daren get close for a scene.


Sex and violence.


William splattered against the side of the RV.


Amanda screaming bloody murder!


Another great and bloody death scene in the can!

Blood Creek Woodsman - August Shoot Pix

Here are a bunch of pictures from the August 2009 shoot for BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN!


Rob Merickel and Bryn Kristi.


Madeline Morgan.


Madeline screams, reflected in blood splatter!


Thanks to Mike and Ward, we had this great police car to use!


Mike Hegg's rig done up as the sheriff's vehicle. Vinyl lettering, a color xerox sheriff's star and a real police car light bar made this look great!


We put this sign on the two police rigs when we were driving them to a location or around town.


Morgan Mayhem ready for some fake blood!


Bryn Kristi and Tom Stedham.


Tom Stedham argues with Jeremiah Benjamin while Michelle Ame Mahoney looks on.


Talking over the next shots with Adam Paris.


Michelle Ame Mahoney and Bryn Kristi beat the snot out of each other!


Tom Stedham takes aim.


Pigging out at The Markum Inn - me with John Bowker, Tom Stedham and Bryn Kristi.


Tom Stedham and Bryn Kristi share a quiet moment.

Much To Do, Much To Do

So it's been a while and I have been very busy.

Last week Tom Stedham flew out from Alabama to star in a horror flick called THE BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN. John Bowker wrote and produced it and he asked me to shoot and direct it. Rob Merickel came on board to play the deputy as well as do make-up and special effects and my BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES partner Mike Hegg picked up a sweet new HD camera and allowed us to use it for the shoot.

I was a crazy few weeks of planning, storyboarding, asking for favors, borrowing and buying props, designing logos, costumes, etc. Then it was a crazy week of shooting. I totally blew the scheduling and we were behind from day one. We had to have a bit of a pow wow and thankfully a few actors and actresses could make it for an additional day. We also pushed even more stuff off to sometime in September, adding to several sequences we had already planned to pick up then.



Great performances and some real magic captured on tape. Life has also been busy at home and work has been a killer, both before I took the week off and now that I have returned.


We capped off the week with a premiere of DEADLY PREMONITIONS at the Northern Lights Theater Pub in Salem, Oregon. It was extra special because Tom Stedham could be there for it, being out from Alabama for the movie shoot and all. We screened a nearly perfect DVD-r, that only really needed one scene's lighting tweaked and some sound fixed. Everyone said the thing looked finished to them. Because of those last few tweaks, I didn't have copies for everyone, so will have to take care of that in the coming months.

Several folks were taking pics during the shoot, so I'll try to look at them as well as my own and then put a bunch up here on the blog.

You may notice my snazzy blog design is gone - I had some bandwidth issues with my website host, so have taken a bunch of files down temporarily so they can track traffic and see if it's just someone hotlinking to some of my stuff or if by some weird fluke I am actualy getting TONS of traffic to the site. In the meantime, I've reverted back to this green motif that I like quite a bit.

Going to be travelling a bit in the next few weeks as well as getting back to some of my other movie projects and planning for the September shoots for BLOOD CREEK WOODSMAN.

More soon...

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