Sneak Peek behind the scenes
CLASSIC TRUCKS
Making a period piece road movie certainly insures that you will work with some amazing classic vehicles. Our hero truck is a 1976 Chevy El Camino. Under the hood is a 400 cubic inch small block with a Turbo Hydra-matic transmission. Pre-production has certainly involved some shop work! We purchased two El Caminos for the shoot and spent many hours up to our elbows in grease, combining the best parts of each (including an engine swap) to create the ideal picture vehicle that looks great, runs well, and sounds very very groovy!
INTERIOR TRUCK SET
As almost half of the script takes place in a vehicle with no backseat (and involves a spider’s perspective) we decided to build an interior truck set with removable fly-walls, so the camera can see any angle of the interior. In order to pull this off, the second El Camino had to be torn apart and chopped into pieces (yaaa, I know, movies are like that).
ROLLING STUDIO
Our break-apart set is great, but having to fake all the driving scenes in a studio is far from ideal. Creative problems require creative solutions and getting the actors into real environments needed something groundbreaking. Rather than putting the interior set against a green screen we chose to build a 38 foot, glass walled rolling studio. This will allow us to film scenes with real backgrounds, while driving down the road, yet still use our interior set.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Of course, a psychological horror film needs a certain amount of spine tingling horror. We are fortunate enough to be working with an exceptional team of Special FX wizards who have worked on many of the huge budget shows that you know and love. We don’t want to show you too many things in advance but here are some very early works-in-progress to give you a sneak peek.
