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While the majority of <I>Terror Firmer</I> is shot at the extremely cinematic Greenpoint, Brooklyn location, the remaining weeks of production are spent at a few other locations, primarily in a defunct video distribution warehouse in New Jersey. The owners cleared out their stacks of WWF and antiquated porno videos in order for us to shoot. The warehouse is smaller and less exposed to the elements then the ship yards, so things run a bit smoother because there's less space to travel in between camera setups and inclement weather doesn't slow down production. It's at this location that we film an exploding head, some exploding boobs, and one of my big fistfights.
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The film is loaded with action (as you may have inferred from these articles), but it's always exciting (in a dangeroous kind of way) whenever the explosives guys go to work. In Lloyd's book, <I>All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From the Toxic Avenger</I>, he goes into great detail about how you can never trust a pyrotechnic "expert." <I>Terror Firmer</I> seems to be no exception. A scene calls for a fake head to get blown up as if it was shot with a pistol. After the explosives guys rig the head, they make everybody leave the room. A few minutes later, there's a (literaly) groundshaking BOOM. When we go back into the room, the dummy head looks as if it was shot with a Howitzer. Wet globs of fake flesh have been blown in a fifty foot circle. The head is completely destroyed (much to the chagrin of our special FX girl, Ruth).
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