I was born in Columbus , Georgia in 1978 but have lived (almost) my entire life in Maine, you might being asking what this lesson in my birth and early life have to do with horror ? I would like to share a graphic with you that was posted on Facebook yesterday (and many times before I'm sure) and talk about it's contents and what it's like to film a movie in our beautiful state .
This graphic gets alot of attention on facebook, minybecause it makes mention of just about every scary place in horror history and yesterday someone asked in the comments of this post this pic was a part of "Why the state of Maine" ?
Being a Mainah, I can only assume that the entire state of Maine is mentioned because most of Stephen Kings amazing books take place across the state.
As an Indie film maker in the state of Maine I think my films will add to the thought process of staying out of the state if you want to survive LOL ...
Being a Mainah, I can only assume that the entire state of Maine is mentioned because most of Stephen Kings amazing books take place across the state.
As an Indie film maker in the state of Maine I think my films will add to the thought process of staying out of the state if you want to survive LOL ...
Sins of Man : Rise of Mortis originally was supposed to be set in an around a Maine High School but for whatever reason the local school board wouldn't allow us to shoot in any of their buildings so we did a rewrite and had to take the script in a completely different direction and change the setting to an ill advised camping trip with a bunch of recent graduates .
Now I know and understand fully that a horror movie set in a high school isn't ground breaking work and neither is a camping trip horror movie but it was the best I could do on the micro budget I had and the time I had, I think we have alot of advantages in indie film here in Maine with wide open spaces and things that in most "popular" filming spots in the country you have to create on a sound stage a great example would be the Sebec Country Store in beautiful Sebec Maine which we shot in last year, not many of the know filming hot spots have an actual general store. here in Maine we have miles of nothing but woods and miles of wooded road great for filming on where there is little to no traffic for filming roadside scenes. While we have beautiful places in Maine we also have alot of scary freakin' places too .
Now I know and understand fully that a horror movie set in a high school isn't ground breaking work and neither is a camping trip horror movie but it was the best I could do on the micro budget I had and the time I had, I think we have alot of advantages in indie film here in Maine with wide open spaces and things that in most "popular" filming spots in the country you have to create on a sound stage a great example would be the Sebec Country Store in beautiful Sebec Maine which we shot in last year, not many of the know filming hot spots have an actual general store. here in Maine we have miles of nothing but woods and miles of wooded road great for filming on where there is little to no traffic for filming roadside scenes. While we have beautiful places in Maine we also have alot of scary freakin' places too .
While I get that people might think it's weird or odd that a local film maker would even attempt to make a small micro budget film in Maine, I love this place and really can't imagine living anywhere else, my wife and her family are from here most of my family is here, my kids are in school here and we love where we live (a bigger house is in our future) . Maine is really coming into it's own as a filming location for indie film, alot of work is being done in the big cities like Portland, Freeport, Kennebunk etc. I like the more country settings like Solon and Sebec where the majority of Sins of Man : Rise of Mortis was shot. the closes we came to a city setting would be Gorham or Scarborough. Shooting in Maine is great if you're from here and have knowledge of cool places that not many people know about and I guess it's like that in other places as well.
My goal is to be able to buy some land and build a warehouse or buy land with a warehouse on it and create my own sound stage to work on so film makers across the state can come in and film their movies if they need space to create sets. I want to be a staple of indie film making in Maine for years to come .
My goal is to be able to buy some land and build a warehouse or buy land with a warehouse on it and create my own sound stage to work on so film makers across the state can come in and film their movies if they need space to create sets. I want to be a staple of indie film making in Maine for years to come .
In closing I want to say that I love my state and will do everything I can to make Maine a power house n the indie film world because I think we have a lot of talented people in this state that if they have the right platform can and will do amazing things !
STAY HUMBLE, STAY HUNGRY .
STAY HUMBLE, STAY HUNGRY .
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