After three Satanists perform a dark ritual in the woods, an accident leaves Terry "fucked up reaaaaaal baad!" Now, the inept Warren and Elliot must trudge the psychedelic bowels of Hell towards a distant, omnipotent light - their only hope for Salvation.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Based out of San Diego on a shoestring budget, the production team had three months to write the script and prepare for shooting. Pre-production
began before the script was even written, since a few key aspects had been pre-determined: There would be primarily two actors, the horror would be
Satanic in nature, and it would be shot in the woods - lit with portable LED worklamps.
Principal photography began mid-September 2007 in Shasta County, CA, forty-five miles south of the Oregon border. The players spent a month sleeping and living out of a one room, half-constructed office on a local campground - the favorite rest stop of a hardened motorcycle gang. With no Internet and little phone reception; trips were made daily to Redding, CA, thirty miles from camp. Everyone became nocturnal. Shooting began nightly when the sun went down, through nightnoon, and on to sunrise (the temperature dropping as low as thirty degrees at times). There were only three crew members, which meant everyone had several jobs to do simultaneously, all night long. This proved difficult several nights, as the stunt car rented from the local convicted felon never seemed to work unless he was driving. When he "left," the players were forced to tether rope around the underbody of the Camaro and literally pull and push it around set.
It would still be more than a year-and-a-half before Fever Night's completion. Nearly twenty additional nights of shooting were needed to fill
the gaps, editing proved to be the greatest challenge. The last scene of the film went through twenty different versions, and over fifteen minutes
were cut to make the film more cohesive. Five different openings were considered for several months, before finally choosing its fragmented
prologue. Fever Night grew organically, through its own processes and the passage of time.
The innovative cast and crew of this truly independent high-def production pushed the limits of available technology (and genre conventions) to create a movie with a life of its own and, in the process, a new brand of cult horror, characterized by psychedelic beauty, fright, and irreverent humor.
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PRODUCTION HISTORY
Based out of San Diego on a shoestring budget, the production team had three months to write the script and prepare for shooting. Pre-production
began before the script was even written, since a few key aspects had been...
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