FANTACIDE - I WORKED ON THIS MOVIE FOR ALMOST A YEAR, DESIGNING AND CREATING THE SPECIAL GORE FX, DREAMING UP THE INSANE AND ORIGINAL STORY WITH MY BROTHER, WHICH WE DISCUSSED FOR MANY, MANY HOURS, DAYS ETC AND CO PRODUCING WITH SHANE AND NICOLA FENN. THERE WERE MANY OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS , BUT YOU GET THE PICTURE, THIS IS A MATHER BROS PRODUCTION AND EVERY SCENE IS TESTAMENT TO THAT! FILMING BEGAN IN JULY 2006 AND MY BROTHER AND I WERE DETERMINED THAT THIS PRODUCTION WOULD NOT BE PLAGUED BY UNRELIABLE PEOPLE PROBLEMS, AS WERE PREVIOUS MOVIES, BUT THE FIRST DAY WAS LITTERED WITH DISASTERS.... PEOPLE ARRIVING LATE, HAVING TO LEAVE EARLY, GIVING LIFTS TO OTHERS WHEN THEY ARE NEEDED IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA, MOANING ABOUT BLOOD, THE SUN AD INFINITUM.... MY BRO AND I WERE FUCKED OFF TO SAY THE LEAST, GORE SCENES HAD TO BE CHANGED AT THE LAST MINUTE, THE TWO LADS WHO GET SHOT WHEN YIDSTIEN IS INTRODUCED WAS GONNA BE FAR BLOODIER, BUT WE HAD TO SCALE DOWN THEIR KILL SCENES BECAUSE OF THEIR ABSOLUTE UNRELIABILITY. IF THIS IS HOW FILMING WAS GOING TO COMMENCE IT WAS TO BE A LONG SHOOT, AND IT WAS! AFTER THIS WE FILMED THE CHIN MCQUEEN MASSACRE, THIS WAS IN AUGUST OF 06 AND MORE HAZZARDS AWAITED US, RAIN GALORE, DOGSHIT ALL OVER THE PLACE, SQUIBS LEAKING AND HORRIBLE SWAMPS, KARL HOLT AND MIKE MORETTA WENT THROUGH A GRUELLING KILL REGIME, BEING RIGGED OVER AND OVER WITH SQUIBS ON THE FACE, HEAD AND BODY. AS FOR DERRICK MIGHALL, BEING GAROTTED AND SHOT, FOND MEMORIES ABOUND. OTHER SCENES WERE FILMED IN AUGUST SUCH AS THE MEETING OF FONTAINE AND MCQUEEN AND SEPTEMBER SAW THE FILMING OF MY AND PETER RANDS BED SCENE, THIS WAS WHEN THE HUMOUR OF FANTACIDE STARTED TO FILTER THROUGH, AND FROM HERE ON IN, THE BLOOD, LAUGHS AND MORE EXPLODED! OCTOBER 2006 SAW THE WAXWORKS IN GREAT YARMOUTH BEING CENTER OF A VIOLENT AND GORY ESCAPADE , IN THIS SCENE OPPENHEIMUR (RANDS), DALE (DEAN MATHER) AND BEEFY(K.HOLT) DESCEND UPON THE WAXWORKS TO RECOVER A DUMMY WHICH HAS THE SPEAR OF FANTASY CONCEALED IN ITS TORSO, THINGS GO AWRY WHEN AN ATTENDANT INTERUPTS THEM AND HE IS GORILY MURDERED BY DALE. I USED A FULL FAKE TORSO LOADED WITH BLOOD PACKS FOR THIS FX HIGHLIGHT, AND HACKED INTO THE BODY TIME AFTER TIME, BLOOD SPLATTING EVERYWHERE! A TUBE WAS THEN ATTACHED TO THE INSIDE OF THE TORSO AND BLOOD WAS PUMPED SO MORE OF THE RED STUFF SPURTED FROM THE BODY. FAKE FLESH WAS ADDED AND THEN REMOVED FROM THE GAPING WOUND AND EATEN! BY NOW, WE HAD SET A DEFINATE DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION OF FANTACIDE, DEC 19 2006, SO THE REST OF OCTOBER , NOV AND DECEMBER WERE HECTIC TIMES. YIDSTIENS GORY TORTURE SCENE, BEEFY STEVENS SHOOTING (COLD COLD NIGHT IN NOV), CHURCH SCENES (DAY AND NIGHT), TIT SLICING SCENE, WHICH MADE A MESS OF MY KITCHEN, SO MANY SCENES I COULD WRITE A BOOK! BUT WE GOT TO THE END SEQUENCE AND KNEW WE HAD TO TOP THE REST OF THE FILM, MANY FX SCENES WERE TO BE USED, BITTEN LEGS, FOR WHICH I TAPED A TUBE UP MY LEG, COVERED IT WITH FLESH AND THEN ANOTHER LAYER, GORED IT UP AND PUMPED THE BLOOD. LOTS OF FAKE HEADS BEING HACKED AND CHOPPED. ONE SCENE WE HAD A LAD CALLED RYAN WHO PLAYS ONE OF THE WORSHIPPERS AT THE END OF THE MOVIE HOLDING A FAKE HEAD ABOVE HIS OWN WHILST SITTING IN A CHAIR. I HAD PRE CUT THE TOP OF THIS HEAD FILLED THE INSIDE WITH A HUGE PACK OF BLOOD AND FLESH,THE SCENE WAS FILMED WITH TWO CAMERAS AND I HAD TO HIT THE HEAD QUICKLY BEFORE THE PRE CUT PIECES STARTED TO COME APART! I REMEMBER SPEAKING TO CHERYL, ANOTHER WORSHIPPER AND TELLING HER THAT HER CHARACTER WOULD BE GETTING SPEARED IN THE VAGINA, I THINK SHE THOUGHT I WAS JOKING AS ALL SHE HAD TO DO WAS COUGH UP SOME BLOOD IN HER DEATH SCENE. A WEEK LATER WE FILMED A DUMMY PAIR OF LEGS WITH A FALSE CUNT AND SPEARED IT, THE RESULT,THANKS TO SHANES EDITING IS GRUESOME FLAWLESS EXTREME. THE FILM WAS FINISHED BY DEC 19 06 AND WE HAD OUR PREMIER ON THIS DATE, IT WAS A CLOSE CALL, MY BROTHER WAS EDITING RIGHT UP TO THE LAST MINUTE. FANTACIDE WENT DOWN VERY WELL WITH THE AUDIENCE, GETTING THE RIGHT YUKS AND LAUGHS AS INTENDED. JANUARY 2007, MY BRO AND I DISCUSSED SOME CHANGES WE WANTED TO MAKE AND FIRST OFF WAS A SHOTGUNNED HEAD TO BE RESHOT. AFTER I AM BITTEN I BLOW APART THE MONKS HEAD WHO I HAVE KNOCKED TO THE FLOOR,THE ORIGINAL KILL HAD THE BLOOD GO IN A SIDEWAYS DIRECTION, WHICH DID NOT LOOK VERY GOOD. WE RESHOT THE SCENE WITH SQUIBS AND A FAKE HEAD WITH A MASSIVE HOLE IN ITS BONCE AND A THICK TUBE PLACED IN THE CAVITY, WITH FAR SUPERIOR RESULTS! OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, A COUPLE MORE CHARACTERS WERE INTRODUCED,THE BLOODY AND VIOLENT RAPE ADDED,THE ORIGINAL ENDING CHANGED, MORE GORE FX (EYE SHOOTINGS, EYE PLUCKING, SHOOTINGS) AND A BEEFED UP STORYLINE AND BETTER CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, ALL RESULTING IN A MOVIE ALMOST TWO HOURS LONG, A BODYCOUNT OF 50+ AND A LONG ,FUN AND TROUBLESOME SHOOT, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, YOU COULD WRITE A BOOK ON FANTACIDES FILMING, ASK MY BRO IF YOU DONT BELIEVE ME.
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