I'm realizing that these may be more trivia with slight humor. I don't know. Anyway, I'm going to start way back and work forward.I'll do a new one each day until people lose interest or I run out of stories.
We shot the Sleepaway Camp Sequels back to back. They were very hard days and things happened that were funny now, but at the time, not so much.
- Brian Patrick Clarke (TC) was being picked at the airport to start on the film. He and Alison,one of the office personel, stopped at a Macdonald's and then were on their way to the location. Well, some kids had stolen a car and were making their getaway. In their haste, they hit the car that Brian was in head on. Now there he and Alison sit in the car stunned. Brian had cracked some ribs and they waited for help to arrive. Brian said that he had a mouth full of Big Mac, when they got hit. It was now on the windshield. Everyone kept coming by and saying,"Look, you can see where he threw up on the windshield". He said then an very large man came by and placed his bear like hands on his chest and tried to heal him. Well his ribs were busted and the extra weight wasn't helping him breathe. He finally asked the guy to take his hand off and Brian was put on a gurney. As he was being wheeled off, one of the people there recognized him from a soap opera and I believe wanted an autograph.
- There was a scene where a girl gets dropped from a flagpole and lands on her head. The DP and I got into an argument over the head that I made and I got offended and mouthed off to him. He came at me and the 1st AD, instead of trying to stop a literal fight, he took the fake head from my hands, so it wouldn't get busted. (A fist fight never happened but words were exchanged)
- The scene where the girl gets drilled in the car in part 2 had no car for that scene. So they went looking for someone to loan them their car. I agreed for them to use my freshly painted little Datsun B210. Well, if you have ever seen the movie, that is a pretty gory scene. I sat in my back seat with a big syringe of fake blood and sprayed it into the air on command. Well the blood got everywhere and we had a lot of cleaning to do after they got the shot. Well some of the blood got into the housing for the seatbelt in the ceiling. It was rather cold during the shoot and the blood is made of syrup, so it was rather thick. Well months later, when the weather got warm, it thinned the blood and it would start to drip from the seatbelt. It was like the Amityville Horror! I'm glad that I never got pulled over.
- This story is not a funny one, but was very strange. The camp that we shot at was an abandoned location in Waco, Ga. Well there was a story that the place was haunted by a little boy that had drowned in the lake. (Sound familiar. Here we are making a slasher film about kids at a camp with a killer and the real camp has a legend like Friday the 13th)Anyway, one of the crew reported that when he was working in the lunchroom, he felt someone brush by. When he looked, there was no one there. Later, the 3rd AD reported that she was standing by the flagpole and felt some hands grab her ankles. When she looked down, there was no one there either. She was really frightened by the event.
Overall, it was a fun experience doing the films, but a tough way to get started in a film career. More later.
We shot the Sleepaway Camp Sequels back to back. They were very hard days and things happened that were funny now, but at the time, not so much.
- Brian Patrick Clarke (TC) was being picked at the airport to start on the film. He and Alison,one of the office personel, stopped at a Macdonald's and then were on their way to the location. Well, some kids had stolen a car and were making their getaway. In their haste, they hit the car that Brian was in head on. Now there he and Alison sit in the car stunned. Brian had cracked some ribs and they waited for help to arrive. Brian said that he had a mouth full of Big Mac, when they got hit. It was now on the windshield. Everyone kept coming by and saying,"Look, you can see where he threw up on the windshield". He said then an very large man came by and placed his bear like hands on his chest and tried to heal him. Well his ribs were busted and the extra weight wasn't helping him breathe. He finally asked the guy to take his hand off and Brian was put on a gurney. As he was being wheeled off, one of the people there recognized him from a soap opera and I believe wanted an autograph.
- There was a scene where a girl gets dropped from a flagpole and lands on her head. The DP and I got into an argument over the head that I made and I got offended and mouthed off to him. He came at me and the 1st AD, instead of trying to stop a literal fight, he took the fake head from my hands, so it wouldn't get busted. (A fist fight never happened but words were exchanged)
- The scene where the girl gets drilled in the car in part 2 had no car for that scene. So they went looking for someone to loan them their car. I agreed for them to use my freshly painted little Datsun B210. Well, if you have ever seen the movie, that is a pretty gory scene. I sat in my back seat with a big syringe of fake blood and sprayed it into the air on command. Well the blood got everywhere and we had a lot of cleaning to do after they got the shot. Well some of the blood got into the housing for the seatbelt in the ceiling. It was rather cold during the shoot and the blood is made of syrup, so it was rather thick. Well months later, when the weather got warm, it thinned the blood and it would start to drip from the seatbelt. It was like the Amityville Horror! I'm glad that I never got pulled over.
- This story is not a funny one, but was very strange. The camp that we shot at was an abandoned location in Waco, Ga. Well there was a story that the place was haunted by a little boy that had drowned in the lake. (Sound familiar. Here we are making a slasher film about kids at a camp with a killer and the real camp has a legend like Friday the 13th)Anyway, one of the crew reported that when he was working in the lunchroom, he felt someone brush by. When he looked, there was no one there. Later, the 3rd AD reported that she was standing by the flagpole and felt some hands grab her ankles. When she looked down, there was no one there either. She was really frightened by the event.
Overall, it was a fun experience doing the films, but a tough way to get started in a film career. More later.
