Macbeth 3000 / French Onion /  Bloody Hell / Skitch / Orange Crush / The Perfect Sandwich / King Lear 2000 / Hamlet

Synopsis

Derek has killed; there's something wrong with Derek. We jump into his combobbled head as he experiences a series of flashbacks, and his deluded journey to the deep murky expanses of a lifeless hell filled with misery and confusion and run on sentences.

Production Synopsis

By: Denis Logan

Bloody Hell was made for the 4th Indietalk Online Original Film Competition, and received much audience acclaim. The most common opinion was that a lot of story was crammed into five minutes without feeling hurried or dragging on. As far as pre-production went, I wrote 5 completely different and unique scripts, 4 of which were utter garbage, and settled for a simple story about a psycho and his dead girlfriend.

The first night of production Kevin, Amanda and Denis filmed all the apartment scenes for the flashbacks of Derek and Wendy. Olga arrived to assist, and when the scenes were wrapped Kevin left for the night and Denis, Amanda, and Olga traveled to meet Paul Wishart for his rooftop scene where he is murdered.

The next morning, despite some minor setbacks (Denis sleeping through the alarm), Kirill, Dan, and Vanessa joined the crew, and we began using the small laundry room for our scenes. The bar scene was actually filmed in a corner of a sewing room, for lack of time to get an actual bar. All the red scenes were shot in close angles, so you can't really tell what kind of room their in, except for the idea that there it is barren and industrial.

The last sequence required a bucket of fake blood to be dumped all over Denis. The solution he had concocted was the ever popular Corn Syrup and Food Coloring recipe. That being said, wrapping very shortly after the blood sequences were filmed, the cast and crew all went off to their own Thanksgiving festivities.

Over the next few weeks Denis edited the footage and sent it to Kirill and Kevin for the score and sound respectively. When the final mix came from Kirill (the night before the deadline), the film went live to the internet, and here it sits for your downloading pleasure- we hope you enjoy, because it was fun making it.

Trivia

 
• Bloody Hell was shot on two different cameras- a Sony TRV-25 (the camera Macbeth 3000 was shot on), and a Panasonic DVX100a (a fantastic camera). The DVX was too large for our steady-cam's mount, so most of the DVX footage was shot with the camera jerry-rigged with masking tape to a loose steady-cam.
• Paul Wishart is now a successful Canadian television and music video producer, and is expanding his film career at an exponential rate.
• The role of the detective was a last minute addition- originally Sean Jordan (from Orange Crush) was cast in the role of a nerd who comes to do his laundry and walks in on the murder, but he had to cancel at the last minute. Emergency re-scheduling fell to another actor, James Rice, but he too had an emergency at the last minute. Pulling the trump card from the sleeve, Denis called Dan (an actor/comedian) and re-wrote the ending with a random detective showing up. It was part of a homage to a script Denis is currently writing, and hopes to film in 2006.
• Amanda's make-up included liquid latex, which smelt a lot like dirty snatch.

Cast

• Derek... Denis Logan

• Wendy... Amanda Duncan
• Boyfriend (Steve)... Paul Wishart
• Detective... Daniel Peters

Crew

• Director... Denis Logan
• Writer... Denis Logan
• Producer... Denis Logan
• Director of Photography... Kirill Kripak
• 1st Ass. Director... Kirill Kripak
• Funny Name... Joe Guy
• Additional Cinematography... Denis Logan
• Camera Operators... Kirill Kripak, Denis Logan, Paul Wishart, Olga Peterson
• Human Tripod... Vanessa Wishart

• Location Manager... Paul Wishart
• Bloody Bucket Dropper... Paul Wishart
• Wardrobe/Make-up... Vanessa Wishart
• Editor... Denis Logan
• Sound Recording... Kevin Dunlop
• Sound Editing... Kevin Dunlop
• Additional Dialogue/Foley... Kevin Dunlop
• Original Music... Kirill Kripak, Kevin Dunlop
• "Bloody Hell Score"... Kirill Kripak
• "DDT" (club song)... Kevin Dunlop
• Production Assistants... Paul Wishart, Dan Peters, Olga Peterson, Vanessa Wishart
• Special thanks... The cast and crew for taking Thanksgiving to film (thanks), the Indietalk judges for the awards and recognition (thanks), and of course... you... the audience...

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