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Okay, before we get to the "meat and
potatoes" of the interview can you do me a
favor and describe the room where you're
answering these questions?
Hardwood floors,
exposed brick walls, my hot, blind, half-naked
sister wandering around aimlessly bumping into
things, 18 foot high ceilings, dried bloodstains
on Tommy Hilfiger pillows and bed sheets,
razorblades, condoms, 24 lit candles,
incense/incest in the air.
So it's tough in
movies to discover a new horror sub-genre yet
your first writer/director/editor movie 'Slaughtered
Vomit Dolls' is championing the new
extreme of "vomit gore". How did that
development come about?
Well, I
have always been obsessed with the most extreme
movies I could find, and I always made extremely
violent drawings and disturbing music for my
whole life; then, when I got a bit older, I
became an Emetophile around the time that I met
and was dating/living with Ameara LaVey. I was
constantly shooting stuff with my video camera
for several years on end, but when Ameara asked
if she could live with me, I just said sure, but
you\rquote re gonna get videotaped pretty much at
all times cuz I am always shooting; she said
"sure ! what do you want me to do?"
Well, my sexual relationship with Ameara had me
dominating her, she was always extremely
submissive with me, and doing all manner of
Emetophilic sexual acts, and so I just kept on
shooting as I normally would. We realized right
away that the footage we were getting was very
fascinating to look at and was very dramatic and
disturbing, so I came up with various scenes and
her character, Angela Aberdeen, Ameara agreed to
a 24/7 Method acting/ Master/Slave agreement, and
we kept on shooting like that for about eight
months.
Are you trying to
push the very limits of gore and break new ground
by eliciting a physically sick response?
Yes
that's definitely part of it; I love the idea
that SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS causes pronounced
physical responses in many viewers because it can
make some people nauseous. Quite often when
people have a revolting physical response to my
movie they are partially blinded to what they
actually saw onscreen and their memory of a
particular scene will be "bruised" ,
i.e. sometimes exaggerated and/or bear
psychological bruising which I think causes
knee-jerk reactions like the now clich'e
"it's just a bunch of people puking!!"
and the classic "there's absolutely NO PLOT,
NO STORY . . ." etc etc. I also love to have
prolonged gore scenes like the eye gouging or
brain eating/puking scene in SVD, and not cut
away from a scene like that after a few seconds,
I LOVE the idea that an entire scene or even
sequence/section of a movie can be comprised of
an unspeakably gory act for several minutes at a
time. So, when I have an entire movie that I've
shot, like SVD or the second Vomit Gore movie
ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, I love to have many
scenes that are incredibly over-the-top on the
vomit/gore scale, and with that it's also very
important to me to show an interesting
connectivity and/or parallel or overlapping
planes of consciousness and story events/elements
that connect the scenes like a kind of tapestry
that gets stitched together. For example, Charles
Manson's girls took turns sewing him a beautiful
vest that is a tapestry of many different
meaningful images and scenarios based on his
relationships and experiences with the different
girls in his Family. So when the vest was
complete and Manson wore it, you could see the
"Gruesome Tapestry" , as it were, that
had been stitched together representing his
Family; each girl would chose slightly different
colors, thread, material, and depict a scene that
is specific and meaningful to her relationship
with Manson and would usually epitomize that
relationship, and it is the overall combination
of the interconnected, intertwined, colorful and
bizarre scenarios that share a common context,
that makes the final product coherent BECAUSE of
it\rquote s patchwork form: in this example it's
a vest for their leader Manson, but in my case
it's not a vest but a movie and each gal is
represented beautifully and horrifically based on
our experience together which is depicted in a
scene that I shoot.
Do you have a
personal favorite scene in the movie which you
think is the sick extreme?
Yes I
have a favorite extreme scene, but it\rquote s
not even in the final movie that was released
because my lawyer and executive producer advised
me that we would potentially have lots of
problems with the scene so I cut it. I knew this
was likely to happen before I even shot the scene
with Ameara, so, in SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS, when
you see her in the bathroom near a bath tub and
she is holding a wooden crucifix and gets
undressed, you will see that I have taped a pair
of scissors to the wall as a bitter joke to
myself knowing that this scene that I absolutely
LOVE will likely never be shown to the general
public.
Your leading
actress in the film, Ameara LaVey, has been
getting phenomenal reviews as Angela Aberdeen.
How did you go about casting her in the role?
With a movie like this what was the audition
like?
Well, as
I mentioned in a previous answer, Ameara LaVey
was my girlfriend at the time, she had been in
some adult films and we had some common friends
in that realm so that's how we met, she got
kicked out of her place and asked if she could
stay with me, and I said it was no problem as
long as she doesn't mind behind videotaped, at
all times, at MY discretion, no matter what,
while doing anything that I told her to do. Was
there anything she refused to do? Actually no, as
part of our agreement, Ameara COULD NOT refuse to
do anything I told her to do; we had a Safe Word
that she could have used, although she never did,
to get me to stop at any time to discuss anything
and tell me her concerns, take a break, or just
quit the scene or movie all together, but the
important aspect to note is that her using of the
Safe Word could only occur amidst her already
attempting to do whatever scene it may be, so the
idea there is that she would at least have to TRY
any scene that I could think of no matter what.
But, if after invoking the Safe Word and
it\rquote s inherent context, if Ameara LaVey
wanted to tell me to fuck off and die and walk
out on that scene or the movie forever it was MY
OBLIGATION to absolutely let her go without
question. There was a scene called "The
Maggot Joint" , in which Ameara's character,
the prostitute Angela Aberdeen, is in a sleazy
hotel room where she is brutalized and repeatedly
raped for money by her customers, and we see
Angela at the end of a night rolling a joint
filled with maggots (although we actually used
Meal Worms: beetle larvae). Ameara was terrified
of the "maggots" squirming and kind of
jumping around on the table in front of her, and
was having incredible difficulty doing the scene
and it was taking forever so I just decided to
forget about it so it's not in the movie, but she
tried over and over again to roll the maggot
joint even though she was very frightened.
And are all the
vomit scenes in the film genuine, they look like
it -- and if so how did you get the actors to do
this? Were there any tricks?
Yes all
the vomit scenes are real. All the actors are my
friends whether or not I've known them for a long
or short period of time, and there's never any
discussion or convincing or talking people into
puking, they all know me and know what I'm about,
so it's just understood that if you're on a
Lucifer Valentine Vomit Gore set, as a performer,
you will be puking.
However, the gore
as well as the film itself is also very stylized.
Did you want to explore the juxtaposition of the
gorgeous with the grotesque? Did you have any
cinematic influences in that realm?
Well the
"gore-geous and the grotesque" has
always been an innate part of my lifestyle due to
my nature, background, and types of friends that
I seek out and am sought by, and I always had a
video camera surgically attached to my hand since
I was young, however, I LOVE and had stylistic
influences early on from David Lynch, John
Waters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Spinell, G.G.
Allin, Andy Kaufman, Pier Paolo Pasolini the
wonderful and caring people who made the first
Guinea Pig movie, Brett Easton Ellis' book
American Psycho, Harmony Korine, Larry Clark,
Paul Reubens, Anton LaVey, Kenneth Anger, and
Crispin Glover to name a few of the important
ones.
What has been the
predominant viewer reaction?
Great !!
Open-minded groovy people who like art and music
usually love SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS and my work
in general. I have met so many incredible and
super kool wonderful people through their
responses to my movie. Initially, there were some
people on various discussion boards who had a
negative outlook on the existence of Vomit Gore
and SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS, and they're
certainly entitled to their opinions, but most of
those folks clearly stated that they felt
horror/gore movies need to adhere to strict rules
often relating to their views on Hollywood
"professionalism" and linear plots and
conventional rules of pre-established filmmaking,
which is the exact opposite of me and my kind of
filmmaking so I just ignore negative squares like
that because they are is so boring and I focus my
energies on kind, interesting people.
I've heard so
much about this film on the net and sites and
message boards and stuff. Everybody has an
opinion. What has been your favorite of all the
things your movie has been called?
"The
Sickest/Goriest/Most Disturbing movie ever
made" , I like seeing those lists people
make with their favorites, and I like the quote
"No Budget-Handicam-Art Gore-Garage
Shocker" as a description someone used in a
review I saw somewhere.
And this is the
first of a vomit gore trilogy - can you give us a
teaser as to what we can expect from you next?
ReGOREgitated
Sacrifice, the second Vomit Gore movie in the
Trilogy, continues to document Angela Aberdeen's
Death; as we see her passing through various
planes of consciousness we learn more and more
about who Angela Aberdeen is and her origins by
focusing on the characters that emerge as aspects
of her disintegrating mind as she dies from her
suicide by drowning.
Something tells
me you can't get 'Slaughtered Vomit
Dolls' at your local Blockbuster. How
can we pick up a copy?
People
can order SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS by going to the
official website !! www.slaughteredvomitdolls.com
So I am curious
-- what repulses you in everyday life?
Negative
energy from human beings repulses and sickens me;
I am repulsed by people who do not listen to
others, never learn and therefore do not
understand the people they come into contact
with.
Thanks for the
chat Lucifer.
THANKS !!
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