Ack wrote:Oh man, tell your buddy that I really want to track down a copy of his movie now. Also, give him a thumb's up for me.
Will do. He's a great guy.
The movie is apparently really, really hard to find, however. My neighbor does not even have a copy - despite starring in it - and I have never seen any available for purchase online. (Admittedly, however, I haven't been looking that hard.)
Wow. There is an Amazon page, but it's not available for purchase. There's also currently nothing on eBay and only that one video on YouTube. The IMDB page has a thread for a guy asking to see the movie. Good rating though, 7.3...from 11 users. Wow. Worldcat lists it not being held in any library worldwide...not surprising.
Oh man, apparently a YouTube account uploaded the whole thing on August 5, 2015, but the account has since been suspended. Oh man...so close.
That said, I'm starting to find info on it. If you can track down a guy named Junior Webb, he did the makeup for it. He apparently lived in a mobile home in west Charlotte over by the airport as of 2012. And the director, Jet Eller, still lives in North Carolina. Maybe you can track him down and see if he has a copy?
you guys trying to track down the guys who made this movie is eerily similar to the beginning of The Hills Run Red. If that movie is correct, you're next move is to find the director's stripper daughter.
noiseredux wrote:you guys trying to track down the guys who made this movie is eerily similar to the beginning of The Hills Run Red. If that movie is correct, you're next move is to find the director's stripper daughter.
Haha, of course.
By the way, noise, you should come down south and help us figure this out. I'll wear my best finery, just for the occasion.
fastbilly1 wrote:
And here I thought most people used flaked laundry detergent and boric acid, since potato flakes are known to attract bugs and studios are rarely cleaned thoroughly. Or you know, they use a special effects company that specializes in snow with very specific techniques like fireworks and specially made machines: http://www.snowbusiness.com/
Or was that sarcasm?
In my experience, at least on smaller productions, people have either used laundry detergent or the potato flakes. I've seen the potato flakes used more, but they had every intention of cleaning up the scenes afterwards. I would think that more people use the detergent, but it can get really slippery. The extent to which the potatoes are used may have been exaggerated, but Luke may well have heard stories about using it or seen it used. I met a lot of people who said they learned it from this:
Never worked on a production big enough to justify using the budget for paying a company specializing in snow. Those machines they use are stupid expensive.
My brother is a huge fan of kung fu and martial arts movies and has amassed a decently sized collection. It's not quite Nick Frost's action movie cupboard in Hot Fuzz, but it does fill several boxes and bags between the DVD and VHS stuff he owns. Now that he is in China, he has given it all to me for safekeeping.
I'm contemplating playing a joke on him while he is away and switching most of it out with really bad martial arts movies, save for the stinkers I have previously bought him like American Ninja and Miami Connection.
fastbilly1 wrote:
And here I thought most people used flaked laundry detergent and boric acid, since potato flakes are known to attract bugs and studios are rarely cleaned thoroughly. Or you know, they use a special effects company that specializes in snow with very specific techniques like fireworks and specially made machines: http://www.snowbusiness.com/
Or was that sarcasm?
In my experience, at least on smaller productions, people have either used laundry detergent or the potato flakes. I've seen the potato flakes used more, but they had every intention of cleaning up the scenes afterwards. I would think that more people use the detergent, but it can get really slippery. The extent to which the potatoes are used may have been exaggerated, but Luke may well have heard stories about using it or seen it used. I met a lot of people who said they learned it from this:
Never worked on a production big enough to justify using the budget for paying a company specializing in snow. Those machines they use are stupid expensive.
They are stupid expensive, but the biodegradable foam they shoot is awesome. Some of them can even make it so you can make snowballs out of the foam snow. As you can imagine, that is even more expensive. It was more of a jab at Luke since he has stated recently that most of his posts are sarcasm.
I have made snow machines in the past, and plan to when we have kids. A big air compressor a special set of fitting is all they are if you live where it gets cold enough - https://www.snowathome.com/free_plans.php.
