Production Almost Complete

There's a scene that I specifically wrote into the movie that I thought would be fun to show audiences. I mean I know people are almost turned off by the tourture porn stuff after these past few years with Hostile and Saw III and IV. But it still brings in an audience and there are still things people have not seen.

My intention wasn't to do anything close to torture porn type stuff, but the idea we went with is pretty graphic and sickening. It was very intense to see it taking place on set. I actually was a bit emotionally disturbed for a couple days. I had a hard time dealing with what we were going to show. But at the same time it fits the character very well.

It's something I think some people will be really happy with, they will enjoy. Others I think will be disgusted. 

In any case it's something I needed to do in exploring my darker side and the things I want to do in making movies. It's something that is a part of me and I need to learn to grow from it and use it.

I don't want to be another Eli Roth, but I do want to deliver things audiences will wince at and will embrace. Before this I have not really broken out of that "Safe" place in horror and so I guess this is my way of doing that.

With all that said I just hope it looks good in the edit because of how difficult it was to get through - mentally, emotionally, and even physically for the actress.

I don't want to go into detail because I want people to be surprised and I want people to want to see it and have their curiosity piqued. And since seeing the blog entry my effects supervisor posted and how it's making folks come to me and say how bad they want to see it, I think it will ultimately be good for us.

Also, doing this third and final installment has a lot of people chomping at the bit to get to see something, anything having to do with this movie. I'm a little surprised at that but I have emails from people almost daily asking about the movie and when it will be done and how they can't wait to check it out. It's putting some pressure on to make sure this thing is as good or better than the last time out. But I'm sure we can deliver with what we have.

This story is definately a departure from the second film, more so than Bloodline was a departure from the original. But I think it's in a fun way. Most people who've seen the screenplay are thrilled about it and really like what we've done.  Like I said, this is the last chapter so I really wanted to turn things over on their side and do a little something different. One big thing is we gave actors more lines so they'd have more ability to express their talent through delivering lines as well as emoting through action and expressions from body language.

Also, we kind of went in the other direction with the amount of violence in the movie. Instead of going with more bodies, we went with more intense scenes. We also show more on screen this time around, but still keeping in mind that it's not what you see that always scares you.

I could talk about this for a very long time obviously. I'll shut up now until someone else comes along asking questions. I don't mind talking, but I don't want to turn people away with huge long answers. Sorry people who are turned away by that.