BACK TO "my NIGHTMARE"
Gotta love the cheesy grin.
Well, let's just say you don't wanna cross this one as she certainly put across a good performance as a psychopath!
Along this stretch I've had some intense strangulation and and rather involved hatchet killing action.
It looks picture perfect now, but when the blood is flowing and the insects are all biting you you to death it's a whole other place.
As you can see he get's somewhat bloody in this movie...but this is him clean and at the beginning of a filming session!
And you've gotta love a 6ft skin head who does Jujitsu getting beaten up and slaughtered by the 5ft 4 girl next door!
An extreme close up (ECU) on Emma's wild eyes as her character contemplates her love of murder and what she's going to do next to poor old Knoxy boy.
The shot prior to this scene of violent leaves involved Emma hacking into the ground beside my head with the hatchet as I filmed her and as Gareth squirted blood into the air after every hit.
I will certainly remove the audio of that shot though - it sounds as if Emma's victim is farting everytime he's hacked into, thanks to the bottle of blood!
As any good Director should do, I am going through the next couple of shots with my actors...but don't ask me why I'm standing like that, not even I know that!
Gareth (or my very own Bruce Campbell as I put it) put up with getting absolutely soaked in fake blood as well as lying on the floor with minimal fuss as I got quality extreme long shots of his 'dead body'...all the time he was being sucked dry my mosquitos.
Emma as my femme fatale. When she got into the role it got pretty scary, she'd done Drama at High School and turned out to be a really good psychopath!
Here they both are right after filming Gareth's final demise at the end of the film...I bet the fishermen nearby wondered what on earth was happening.
This is where 'the driver' (played by Gareth) encounters a house of horrors kind of situation and some grizzly visions of himself.
This is in fact an out-of-use cattle shed, complete with cow shit floors in the main building as well as animal carcasses shredded by Foxes and finally, a nice rat infestation.
Apart from that it'd be a great place to live, don't you think?
A peaceful scene only shattered by the sounds of things that go bump in the...er...day.
This is the site of a nice and grizzly scene where Gareth is attacked and left in quite a state.
Day 2 of filming was a laugh and a half here alright. By the end of it, Gareth was covered to the point of dripping with fake blood, but the shots looked fantastic!
Weather-wise we were actually quite lucky when shooting. Even Day 3 which was set to be heavy rain ended up being nice and sunny! I had some luck and the weather decided to slow down all day so that I had enough time to get the required shots done before it started raining and got to dark to film.
Despite all the insects and the cow shit everywhere, Llangarron is actually quite scenic.
Gareth certainly had a love for this bit, he was seemingly in love with this dead tree sticking out of the stagnant water.
Although from here it looks rank, it's actually quite pretty when seen in it's entirety. Of course, that's without all the green sludge and dead trees lying around of course.