Another Screening

About a year ago, I worked on a feature length, independent horror movie called "Suffering Man's Charity." For you all Crock Blog veterans, you'll remember I posted my production journals of the experience. HERE, HERE, and HERE.

I can't recall if I ended up writing about the resulting espionage, lawsuit, and squabbling that developed during post-production but I am reluctantly happy to announce the the G.D. movie is finally being released and screened tonight at SXSW.

You can look at bits relating to the film(actually we shot on high-def) at www.sufferingmanscharity.com.

Crocker's factoids about the movie:

• While Alan Cumming learned the cello for the role, he never actually played it in the movie. I know this because I was cueing all the cello music.

• The house we shot in was...shall we say...lived in. It was the filthiest, smelliest house I have ever encountered in my entire life. Absolute squallor. Disgusting. My mother's worst nightmare. It came with seventeen feral cats, three strug-out addicts, and within spitting distance of the 10 freeway.

• The lawsuit following this movie was resolved this past Monday, after more than a year of deposing and perjuring.

• Alan Cumming, who stars and directed the film, spent two weeks storyboarding every shot in the movie during prep. The storyboards were lost on Day 2.

• There is one big stunt in the movie that involves a blow job and a garbage truck. It was 45 degrees at 3 AM on DAY 1 when we shot this. I had a cold the rest of the week.

• Not really trivia, but I can't imagine this movie is going to get good reviews despite having a pretty good cast. (if anyone can corroborate this with reviews, please feel free to pass them along)

My friend Chris worked on Pirates of the Caribbean 2 for three months in the carribean and as a wrap gift, he got a custom folding knife with a nice wooden handle burned with the name of the movie.

For my work on Suffering Man's Charity, I got a bottle of "Cumming;" Alan Cumming's cologne for men, the box art of which just has pictures of Alan in various forms of undress and assorted poses with his dog, Honey.

So if any of y'all are making your way to South by Southwest today and want to get in a screening before pummeling your eardrums and liver all night, I would recommend "MONKEY WARFARE."

Have a good weekend and rock on!