Dallas

"O wild Providence! Unfathomable madness of Heaven! that ever I should write what now I write! I will not write it..."
---M.P. Shiel from The Purple Cloud


I'm in Dallas working on a horror movie. So far it's like a teenage-ish-ensemble cast with lots of violence and gore. It's sort of like "Hostel" or "Saw" I'm assuming ( I've never seen any of those movies.) I am really disturbed by the existence of these "torture porn" movies. ( is this a real term?) I think it is proof of really disturbing things just under the surface of normal white guys' psyches. I mean these kinds of movies are really popular, and they mix naked ladies with tying people up and torturing them. Can this be good for people to watch? Sub-consciously mixing sex and violence seems like a dangerous thing to do. I think it is just indicative of what I already knew: that sQuare white guys who smoke too much weed are really creepy and fucked up. I'm staying the Hell away from them. Stay away from me white people!
The movie I'm currently working on is called "The Final." It is sort of like a Columbine influenced version of "Saw 5." All of these picked-on nerds get together and torture all of these jocks and blond chicks. So far I am surprised and dismayed by the lack of nudity. I mean, I just figured that there would be a lot of sex and nudity in the thing. It seemed like that type of affair. Basically I figured that if you assemble a cast of attractive young actors, that you would also want to gratify the creepy white man demographic with some boobies. They LOVE boobies. The marketplace demands boobs, and in these troubled financial times, who can argue with marketplace?

One interesting thing: This will mark the first time for me working on a movie where the dialogue contains the world's-worst-word and cultural-love-bomb.....NIGGER. Yow-eee. Plus, I am working in sound dept. so I actually get to record the word itself. This is a milestone in my career. I mean working in the 70's-80's they probably got to record that word all the time. Like I watched "48 Hours" the other day, and it was bandied about throughout that movie. But we live in a PC era, and so I'm excited to get to stick a mic in a guy's face and have him say "nigger." God Bless America. P.S. the character is black, so it's not Quite as crazed.

"The Unborn"- I saw this the other night with Toby at this sleazy Dallas dollar theater. The experience as a whole was pretty amazing, but the movie was pretty awful. One thing prefer about Dallas to Austin is that it has more weird sleazy stuff and weird old neighborhoods. This place was hilarious. It had the obligatory couple bringing their baby to a WILDLY inappropriate movie because they don't give a fuck, and the guy talking on his cell phone throughout the entire movie because he doesn't give a fuck. Basically, no one gives a fuck. It's liberating. As far as the movie goes, it's yet another movie ripped off from The Ring, The Grudge, etc. where a creepy little kid/ ghost-thing appears a lot and then there is fucked-up screaming face with FX and scary noises. Upside down faces, weird backwards crawling stuff. A series of rip-offs from the last 20 years of scary movies.