Three new pics and a word from the killer!
Special treat here for you, slasher fiends. In anticipation of Rob Hall’s Laid to Rest, ShockTillYouDrop.com will be unveiling three exclusive photos each week leading up to the film’s April 21st DVD release. These images will be accompanied by a “journal entry” from one of the key players involved in the production. This week, we’ve got Nick Principe who stars as the killer nicknamed “Chromeskull” in the film. You might recall we profiled Principe here. I hope you enjoy this weekly special feature! – Ryan Rotten, Managing Editor
Wow…here we are almost a year to the day we started shooting in a pit of a airport kinda town in Maryland in the freezing cold grounds of some former and rumored to be haunted crumbling insane asylum.
The crew was small but SHOCKINGLY on point at all times. I remember it being around three in the morning (did I mention the twenty-eight day shoot was completely at night?), I was standing outside of a dilapidated church we were shooting an exterior shot at wearing nothing but my Chromeskull suit and mask, it was thirty degrees and pouring rain. The mask is made of metal and for the most part surgically bonded to my face causing my face and bald head a numb mix of steel bone and flesh, and as I stood in the rain watching the barbarians of a G and E department move giant lights on C-stands seemingly unaffected by the cruel East Coast dead of night weather, I hit pause on my iPod – which for the entire shoot was playing Eyehategod, old converge and Pig Destroyer and feeding me inspiration through my ears. Lyrics and musical landscapes of murder, depravity and sledge hammer on bone-crushing riffs. I can’t stress enough how these bands built the mind set of Chromeskull. I took the ear plugs out, walked over to the camera and thought…HORORR MOVIES MEAN EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD TO ME !! Now I’ve played all manners of zombies, creatures and assorted evil beings that go bump in the night…but this…this was different. Chromeskull, right when I first read Rob’s script, I could see he was special…different…a future icon…and that was how I was going to play him…or kill myself trying.
Now when I say horror flicks mean EVERTHING to me…it’s truly everything. My personal time is spent watching all different caliber of horror flicks (from the garbage that The Asylum puts out…to name you’re fav quality production company ) reading novels, comic books and magazines telling me stories or news of what’s to come. My employment is centered on working on nothing but fantasy, horror and action – TV and film. So when I say it means everything to me…I mean I wouldn’t even know who I was as a person without these things…it runs my life AND it’s the ONLY thing that makes me happy.
When Rob asked me to don the face of the Chromed one I set a steady diet of my favorite slasher films with a couple flicks like Clean Shaven and There Will Be Blood to re-study my favorite lunatics and borrow little pieces (including watching Pieces) of their character’s essence to build my own…the neck movements of Roy Batty, the soft walk of Patrick Bateman, the arm slashes of Myers, the Grim Reaper mindset of Voorhees and the sadistic playfulness of the killers from Torso and the twins from Just Before Dawn. And hopefully, if I poured this mixture just right, I’d have made a sadomasochistic being who walks and drives through the deep south with only one goal…one passion: Cause as much human suffering as one man can. I think I did it…I hope I did it. You…my brothers and sisters of horror will just have to tell me when you see it.
So as I hang out waiting for LTR’s release next month and the following press tours where I get to meet my fellow gorehounds from around the world…AND wait to slash again when Hack/Slash starts shooting this summer…I’ll be doing what I’ve been doing for as long as I could see and comprehend: Feeding my dark soul these films and books that keep me from eating a bullet or doing a swan dive from the Capital Records building. I think me, Rob, Bobbi and all of the other actors and crew members from LTR know we’ve made an exceptional slasher flick for a speck of the cost of what the studios call sorry excuses for horror films – remakes, PG-13 teen kiddy flicks off the assembly line that get thrown into the theatres and are quickly forgotten. It was done with love and respect to the genre and I hope it shows when you finally see it. So…I’ll leave you with that and if we ever cross paths please say ‘hi’ and tell me what you think!
Thanks again and see you at the movies.
Source: ShocktillYouDrop.com
