FUN FACTS

1. "Injecting yourself with saline MAY cause unconsciousness!"

 To achieve that extra-yucky feel in the truth serum sequence, REAL hypodermic needles were used! In fact, in the movie you are seeing the hand of the on-set physician injecting sterile saline into William’s knuckles and Macon’s arm! The only trouble was that Macon’s tourniquet was left on for about ten minutes for multiple takes ("Where’s that dang vein at?") and when it came off he promptly fainted. Because Macon is a big tough guy, he grumbled about going to the emergency room, but mother hens Skei and Kate insisted, and when he got there he fainted a few more times. (Pussy.)

 2. "Bleeding walls do NOT necessarily mean that Satan lives in your house!"

Sometimes it just means a low budget slasher flick is filming in the apartment above you! During the filming of the climactic White Room Massacre, SO MUCH fake blood was used that it literally soaked down through the floorboards and into the apartment below. The tenants were understandably concerned when, at around 2:00 am, blood began to trickle from the ceiling and down their walls. Yikes! Time for another tenants’ meeting!

 3. "Contrary to popular belief, making a movie DOES cost money!"

 And not ALL of it can be made fencing stolen bicycles! Sometimes you have to ask other people (usually grownups) for some of THEIR money. These are called “investors”, or “relatives.” And on Murder Party even MORE money than that was needed, so Jeremy and Skei and Chris had to spend every cent of their savings! (Wowza!) They shot half of the movie in February ‘06, then spent two months scraping together a second budget, and in May shot the other half! However, through the use of sophisticated “movie magic”, it appears as though everything was shot at the SAME TIME! Cooool!

 4. "Snow WILL NOT melt if it’s freezing outside!"

 Uh-oh! Jack Frost doesn’t care if you’re already two days behind schedule on your shoot! The Blizzard of 2006 fell on top of the Murder Party production JUST as our groove was starting to be gotten…but no Nor’easter or El Nino was going to break’a OUR stride! We tried using heaters on the great white menace but the melt wasn’t happening fast enough and we had outdoor shots to get that couldn’t be rescheduled…so EVERYONE from grips to gaffers to interns to producers grabbed big orange shovels and went to work. Just remember that whenever you see Hellhammer the Dingo Dog outside the warehouse, there was a SNOW DRIFT there just hours before! Far out!

 5. "Directors are easily CONFUSED."

 Eagle-eyed viewers who stick around for the credits might notice that nearly all of the CHARACTERS have the same names as the ACTORS who play them. Coincidence? Not hardly. As it turns out, Director Jeremy has a fairly common learning disability which prevents him from remembering the names of people he has known for several years. (This same disability prevents him from ever returning videos on time, responding to a text message, or NOT peeing on the toilet seat.) In order to minimize confusion on set, Jeremy decided that Paul’s character would be named ‘Paul’, William’s character would be named ‘William’, and so forth. There were some exceptions (such as ‘Zycho’, ‘Lexi’, and ‘Cicero’ who were played, respectively, by Bill, Stacy and Beau) but Jeremy just called them all ‘Frank.’