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Filming Through Shadows: Cursed in Baja · Cinema Yūgen

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G'day. That's right, it's that time again. Time for Cinema Yogan.
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Music.
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Yes, welcome back Yoganites with Halloween right around the corner.
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We have a horror noir thriller, Kirsten Baha, from filmmaker and actor Jeff Daniel Phillips.
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That's right, Jeff Daniel Phillips of the Munsters, the most recent Munster
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films, as long as a lot of other Rob Zombies work and other cool things which
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you'll hear us talk about.
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Jeff plays Pirelli, an ex-lawman and recently released con.
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Who is enlisted to find the heir to a Los Angeles fortune.
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Pirelli's history with the wealthy family on a past case has given them great
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hope in finding their lost grandson and sole benefactor of the fortune.
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The investigation leads Pirelli to return south of the border where he faces
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off with a drug cartel, a beast-worshipping cult, and his own complicated past.
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The journey challenges him to the core.
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The curse in Baja made its
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way up to the interview we had some technical difficulties
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but thank goodness Jeff is a gentleman and a scholar and
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we persevered you'll hear us talk about
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it a little bit but right now get ready to welcome the man who put who had no
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fear and put his movie together with his friends and fellow filmmakers a passion
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project indeed that was not cursed because it's It's out now.
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It came out on October 1st. Links in the description. Cursed in Baja.
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We had a great chat. A little bit of deja vu involved, but here he is, Jeff Daniel Phillips.
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Hello. Hey, nice to meet you, Kent. Wonderful to have you, mate.
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Now, listen, before we get into Cursed in the Baja.
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Cursed in Baja. Not the Baja. Yeah, wow.
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Jeez. Cursed in Baja. Cursed in Baja.
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Cursed in Baja. It does not have the in cursed Baja.
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And if it did have a vowel, it would be El Baja or La Baja. Yeah.
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Okay. Cursed in Baja. Cursed in Baja. Before we get in. Yeah,
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yeah. What? Cursed in Baja.
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Looking through your credits, you read a movie that I really love.
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Tell us your sneakers story.
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Meeting all those stars. We're laughing because we're redoing this. We got it explained.
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You got to fess up, man. Okay, to set up the story, Jeff and I literally just
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did this interview and came to the end of it and found out that none of it was recorded. That's fine.
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Now I'll tell you the story. because yeah now
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there's weird awkward moments it's because we've we've done
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this we've done right i felt like a phony repeating myself
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but okay this this we're at
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a pub and somebody else walked in and and oh there's
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jeff again he's repeating the same story so here
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i am so yes sneakers it
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was my first big hollywood job and i
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show up for the audition and in the audition room
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i look across the room and there's m
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emmett walsh and i my mouth dropped open and i'm looking at this guy i couldn't
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believe it and he's just uncomfortably trying to work on his lines looking at
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me i gotta tell you i'm just i'm your biggest fan i just love that he's gonna
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yeah yeah thanks you know he's just focused on what he's supposed to be doing
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so that was the beginning of it,
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fast forward to me on set i show up they bring me to the makeup trailer i sit
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down and the makeup artist says, hey, Jeff, why don't you meet one of the co-stars,
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one of your other actors in this?
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Ben kingsley so i was like oh nice to
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meet you oh yes hey how are you and
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they're putting on his little ponytail and and
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then they took me to set and they took me to one of the.
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Other sets and there was robert redford they were in the middle of shooting
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something and then they took me to where we were shooting and it
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was just mind-blowing everywhere i looked it was
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like a bigger star i get this set there's
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sydney portier dan akroyd and
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this guy david strathrin um who's
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academy award winner or nominated or
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whatever it is but anyway it was just the
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craziest shoot everywhere you look stars stars
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stars so yeah we
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were we were filming and and then david
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said to the director he said out he goes hey
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we work together and i said i don't i don't think so because obviously i
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had never done anything with that big and he
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goes no i know we work
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together i don't think so he goes you're the understudy and
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i had done a play like probably three
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six months before and it was i
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was a friend of the guy who didn't show up and.
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I helped him learn his lines and he just had
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some type of you know he has a history of
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not showing up but he told everybody i was his
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understudy which i wasn't but i happened to help
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him learn the line so they threw me on
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stage it was a full house and david was in the
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audience and you know history was that's an amazing start an amazing story yeah
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and it made me look really good with the director too so that was good it yeah
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it was it was even a more amazing story the first time i told it now it's like i was.
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I'm falling asleep,
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sorry audience that's okay yeah
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go ahead it was a great story that continues to be a great
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story i'm gonna go away and tell it to my friends
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later too yeah it'll be etched in your brain story twice this morning and it's
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so good i'll tell it to you too if you really like sneakers sit down for this
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one but i i read another interviews that part of the seed of,
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going off to do Cursed in Baja, was that you were asked to talk to a group of,
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to give a talk, if you will, to a group of filmmaking students.
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And initially you thought that they weren't too enthusiastic.
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You came out of it enthusiastic, saying, you know, stuff like from the Robert
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Rodriguez school, well, I know a guy who has this and I know these people and,
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you know, and riding around what you have.
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Like, you know, as you said, Rodriguez says, well, I have a guitar case and I know the local cops.
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And that was the kind of the birth of Kirsten Baja. Yeah, totally.
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So I was at Grand Rapids, Michigan, and I was promoting the Monsters movie.
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And they scheduled me to speak to some young filmmakers on a Sunday morning.
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I had no idea what I was going to say. They just told me last minute.
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And I just started rambling, you know, all the things to do about making indie
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films and things that I've done and start with your list of what you have locations,
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props, sometimes actors, and then digital advancements and sound.
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Make sure the sound's good.
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If the sound's no good, it'll take you out of the movie. I've done that before.
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I ruined a short. Make sure the sound's recording.
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Yeah. Well, yeah. Make sure you record this interview, hit the record.
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No, but anyway, it's like, so as I was telling them, okay, do a table reads, rewrite it.
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Record it, listen to it, you know, like all these things. I was just,
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their enthusiasm was contagious.
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Actually, they were really into it and I was into it, but I didn't even realize
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how excited I was about telling them the opportunities they have now and how
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you could pull it off for no money.
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Fast forward, I go to Los Angeles, go home, and I'm telling my friend,
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Kent Isaacs, the producer of Kirsten Baha, and I tell him, we're having a coffee,
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and he goes, well, why don't we just do this?
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And I'm like, what? And he goes, yeah, let's do it.
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And so as we were talking, we have a mutual friend who has a farm in Mexico, in Baha.
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And so we started writing it around that. And I know a bunch of crew people.
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I obviously know a bunch of actors.
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And we pulled off an amazing, you know, little few months of chipping away at a project.
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I had a DP that is very talented. He had all the equipment.
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In that situation, sometimes you do it like a short, you know,
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a week, two weeks, whatever your schedule is.
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In our situation, we would work at a few days. Whenever he had time,
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he goes, okay, I have next weekend available.
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Then I would write something or I actually had
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a script but I would rewrite and work it around this guy's schedule and the
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availability of actors or location and so that was one of the things the other
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thing that I had in that list was all these clips of other projects I had done.
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Either things that were part of something bigger or
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something that the young man in
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it I knew him since he was born so i had super eight footage of him i use that
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i use robin lee she was in there and i'd shot her 20 years ago mark fight all
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these different people i was able to weave in this footage i have that was also
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one of our assets you know to the whole part of the.
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Are you familiar with, but this is something I was going to ask the last time
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we spoke, not later on you go.
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Having had all of that footage, as you said, from different stuff and you can
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bind it in a way to give it.
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Do you know or like the film that Steven Soderbergh did called The Limey with Terrence? Yeah.
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Oh, I love The Limey. Yeah. That's exactly right.
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And they used Terrence Stamp's old footage from the movie. Yeah,
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that's exactly. That was the reference that we had with my editor. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah.
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Totally, totally. Yeah, I loved that movie when it came out.
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My editor, Mark Cohn, we've worked together for a couple decades too.
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Yeah. Yeah, we used that movie. We talked about that movie a lot.
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I love that. The nonlinear editing, right? Yeah. Love it.
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Love it. And I'm a fan of Nicholas Robe too, so like that kind of thing.
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No, that was something when we were talking just before that I was going to
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ask and because we got carried, the conversation went somewhere else, I forgot about it.
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But I was going to ask. Yeah, we were lucky we were doing this again.
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Yeah. Let's do it three or four times, man. Yeah, we'll cover all the bases.
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Another film that I got vibes from was the 1975 film directed by Jack Starrett
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starring Peter Fonda and Warren Oates, Race the Devil. Race the Devil.
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I love that movie. It was an influence. that movie i
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saw when i was a kid my parents took me to and it
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freaked me out and i don't know why they took me i was way too
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young and we used to go camping we had a trailer and you
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know in the movie it looks like you know these
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people are just dancing around the fire and
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then next minute it becomes a satanic ritual yeah
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they're being used by these people and in that movie i realized which I'm a
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big Warren Oates fan and Peter Fund is great too but it's like the character
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actors you just invest in the character actors and here these people are being
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chased they're up against.
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A group of people that the people are more evil than any monster or any creature. Yeah.
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And it was so bizarre and such great effects. Like that one scene at the swimming
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pool. Do you remember that?
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Yes. Yes. They come into the town. Everybody's having fun. Yeah.
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And they report some, you know what they saw.
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And here's this, this huge, like, you know, 40 people, 50 people at the swimming
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pool and everybody stops.
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And they just look over at them. I mean, as a kid, we used to have a swimming pool.
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We'd go to all that kind of stuff just freaked me out. And it was such a clever
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way, like a B-movie, low-budget way to throw the fear into you.
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Kind of crazy. It reminded me too of that scene from Get Out,
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you know, when him and the girl go downstairs and everyone downstairs stops
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and looks up and they're listening for what's going on.
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Yeah that was a brilliant movie i mean that was
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the way he did that yeah it was and everybody just
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all it takes is just somebody like turning and looking yeah or
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in the case like everyone else there just stops and
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it's like oh yeah you know my wife wasn't that
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interested in in get out until she walked back into the room and right into
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that scene where they're sitting around near the gazebo and she goes you know
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and then she sat down and stayed because like she goes what are they doing and
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when then dealing with the cards she goes.
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And like it was like you know all of a sudden she was she was hooked.
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But yeah these b movies are what what inspired this whole shoot because partly
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because it's the budget we had yeah and we had to be clever with with the storytelling
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whether it had to do with the editing you know all the film loops everything
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but also it's the movies that inspired me as a kid Like when I saw that movie,
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that movie stuck with me more than any Disney movie as a kid.
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That movie really stuck with me.
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I don't know. B-movies, creature features, all that kind of stuff. I loved it.
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Totally. Is your character, what I was going to, another Kevin question I was
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going to ask you for, your character, Pirelli, always struck me a little bit
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in the, he had, I felt he had a bit of a kinship with like Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now, Willard.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all the narration and like going.
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Yeah, I was looking for a mission and for my sins.
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Here's one of the cool things. I mean, I did have a lot of narration I wrote,
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but in the editing, while we are editing, this is the low budget.
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This is another one of those things. While we are editing.
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My editor and I, I would go into, he was editing at his house.
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I would go into his kid's closet with my phone and I did all my narration on my phone.
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So I would, you know, whatever it was, they're, they're trying to get me again, whatever it is.
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And then I send it back to him and we lay it in and go, Oh, this works or it's
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too much. Let's take it out. And that's how we did all the narration.
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So some of it I already had, but then we thought, Oh, let's pepper it here.
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Let's try it here. It's too much to take it away.
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And yeah, it's there on the fly. Because again, if things are working,
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and that's, I owe to like a Rob Zombie, if things are working,
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he just like opens it up and keeps pushing it in that direction.
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And if it's not, he cuts it. There's nothing too precious.
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He just gets rid of it. And I always admire that about him.
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I also admire that the character actors, he really liked that.
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He likes you to invest in the actors, especially in horror movies.
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If you're if you're invested even just to
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try to understand you don't have to empathize with them there i mean
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most of his characters are anti-hero and you don't
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necessarily trust them necessarily but at least you
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understand them when there is a killing or there's
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something happening to him it moves you you know it's not just some kid running
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through the woods getting chased by a monster it's just character actors he
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likes performance i mean that's that's all my friends All my friends that I
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brought in, they're all great character actors.
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I've done a lot of theater with them, and, yeah, and they have huge resumes themselves.
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And wouldn't you say the quintessential element, especially in a film like this,
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where if you don't – if the characters aren't sincere enough and you don't get
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invested, you don't care if they live or die.
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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, true. But like Mark Fite, my good friend who plays this
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character, Duravage you don't necessarily like him but there's something funny
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and quirky about him and you know when it comes to his demise it's like.
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I don't know it it makes it worth it more and
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you give you give you give an actor a moment and
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and these these particular actors i chose they're
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they're able to like fill it in and and make it
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even better like jackie wright the lady that does the
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stage thing right yes i mean she's
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she does these one woman shows and i knew she
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was the right person right and i sat down we
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wrote we came up with like plot points and i
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told her about the history down in baja because it's
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a big expat place baja right it's
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it's a weird mix and i'm not talking about in
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tijuana but outside like people from
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different countries come in there try to make it happen or they're
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or they're escaping or they're outlaws and then
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either jesse ventura down there yeah i
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think he is right down there yeah seriously it's
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like all these little pockets that have a history and that
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farm was one of them the history that was true so
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i wove that into it and then i gave it to jackie and
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we kind of came up with these these this story thing and she
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just went to town and she was brilliant she
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she wrote a lot of that stuff so she wrote
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all of it basically i mean i i just kind of
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fed her what what should happen and she just.
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Did it and she's that's the kind of people you want
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to bring to the set yeah in the
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in the press materials it says that this could possibly be the
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only chupacabra crime thriller the
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world's only chupacabra crime thriller
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i love i love when in b
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movies that the continued use of special
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effects and a non-reliance on cgi that was
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obviously something that was important to you too making this movie
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yeah and these b movies especially it's like
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cgi is great when it comes to when it comes
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to firearms or anything like that you can't afford
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that it's too dangerous to have anything real of course
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you do some smoke and gunshots but when it comes to the
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blood there's so many cool ways to do it and i
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picked this guy jim ojala he had
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turned me into a cyclops in a commercial once and i
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i went to his studio and he just has shelves of
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all these prosthetics and special effects and i just said yeah can we use that
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arm can we use that stomach exploded this and he goes yeah yeah and we just
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brought it all there and i designed it around all those gags around what he
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had already because of our budget and he just brought gallons of blood and a
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bunch a team of like special effects guys that were fantastic.
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Awesome. But we were talking a little bit before about independent cinema and
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how the balance of power has shifted in the past away from blockbusters to independence
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based on audience taste.
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But you said before, which is an interesting take on it, is you believe that
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there's essentially room for all of us to coexist. There's the big budget movies.
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There's B movies. is, yes, every once in a while there's a B movie,
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as in the case of like Easy Rider or The Blair Witch Project and things like
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that, that are made for a low amount of money and go on to make a lot of money.
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What do you think about the state of independent movies?
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Do you think that there could possibly, you know, in the future be some kind
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of incarnation, another incarnation of like an Easy Rider that starts another
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revolution like it did in its time.
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Yeah, I mean, so if we're going to, I mean, we could talk for hours on this
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because of the fact that theatres aren't being filled anymore.
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Right. And all these streaming platforms that you're hoping need content. Right.
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So you're hoping that, yeah, some of these B-movies have a way to platforms
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for people to see them. And, of course, festivals, they'll turn you on to new stuff.
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But if you dig deep enough, as long as you could find, you know,
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on YouTube or whatever, there's so many different channels now and so many different
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platforms that you're hoping that,
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yeah, a lot of these indies get seen.
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I mean, we all know, like, the big corporate movies, they're harder and harder to sell.
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So maybe they make 20 movies for
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a million a piece instead of one 20 million dollar movie you know if they're
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thinking like that maybe that's the way to go and maybe that's a better gamble
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sure you know who am i to say i mean of course it's like we were talking about
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earlier i feel like i'm in this time loop like my character i'm just repeating
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myself but it's like that.
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Right but it's like every once in a while it just swings back like that like
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the dogma 95 You know, they had this manifesto and they made him for next to
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nothing and they shot him in a week or whatever it was.
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And like, that's great if it happens again.
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Like, why not? Why don't we just keep, just keep churning out stuff, keep creating stuff.
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I don't know. Whoever knows what's going to happen with Senaman anymore, I don't know.
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But you would hope that – I mean, I'm talking to you in Australia, right? That's right.
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There's more of an audience, right, worldwide? Yeah.
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I mean, definitely streaming probably more than home video.
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And the manner – Yeah, and this will be Kirsten Baha, Anchor Bay.
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Thank God for Anchor Bay because they're into the physical media.
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They're they're producing a dvd blu-ray
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possibly vinyl all this
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stuff is gonna all happen the release of our
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film is october 29th and within
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like december the beginning of december i
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think december 10th 15th i'm not quite sure i
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can't remember we'll find out before this is released but uh
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they'll have the dvd blu-ray and then vinyl soon
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so it's like they know collectors they know horror
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fans they know cinephiles like physical
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media they like to own it and and i go to a
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lot of conventions when it comes to promoting stuff and it's
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fun man i i love to you know see people with
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it sign it whatever it's like he's a
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master at that he's he has so many albums and
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soundtrack we have a soundtrack val david
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the guy that our composer is this amazing composer
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and he's just a mad scientist with like sounds
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and music and so he's excited about
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the soundtrack i can't i guess i can't announce
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it yet but like who is it with but it's really
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exciting who this company that wants to do it so awesome there's so many facets
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to it that that i definitely am feeling very hopeful about the state of cinema
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and like people trying to figure out how to serve the indie the.
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The indie hunger, you know? It's like people like to watch different things.
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You like to watch B-movies.
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I know I did. I love B-movies.
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I had the privilege of writing a couple. Yeah, you have a vampire movie, right? Yeah, yeah.
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A vampire movie coming out in October as well, October 22nd.
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But in talking about your movie,
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another thing I was interested to hear about is myths about Tijuana.
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Tijuana is the most active has the most active homicide investigations in all of mexico,
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all of it is true all of it's true where all
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of it is true james woods in salvador kind of
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yeah all of a sudden you're like all eyes
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are on you we were shooting just like a skeleton
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crew just like a camera in the shirt going through
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some really nasty areas red light districts and whatnot
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and and then all of a sudden like a military
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group will come down the street with a big
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vehicle with a giant you know i don't even know kind of
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artillery like just and people in
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uniforms it was just it was insane and and
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i would never recommend this and it you would never
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get anybody to insure you if you told me you're gonna do this but it's
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uh we just started shooting that was one of the things
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so this kent isaac's like let's just go down there start shooting
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and we did and the dp is amazing this guy
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keith coleman yeah and we were
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shooting with he had drones he had everything and this is like we started in
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i think tijuana we shot half the day like we got out of there and then we were
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going to the farm and we're going to come back to the city and on the way we
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we shot these cool you'll see these through these mountains the car going through.
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And down there the gps doesn't work right and
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and that's why you're running the so his drone went down in
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the side of a mountain and we're like oh you know i felt horrible
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and so he climbed the side of the mountain to get it he came
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he fell into some barbed wire it was stuck on his back we peeled it off of him
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and then he kept shooting the rest of the day he was just he's just a machine
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so you get people like that in these indies things and you just like you're
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going to battle with a group of friends and you try to pull it off.
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I mean, if you don't like this movie, that's okay. But just know,
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have some respect for what we try to pull off.
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It's pretty amazing that we fulfilled it. I don't know.
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Well, when I did some research and found out that you actually went down to
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Tijuana and hearing all the stories.
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So, yeah, you put yourselves out there in more ways than one.
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And Cursed in the Baja is worth it for any fans of the genre.
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It's a genre unto itself, but it harkens back to a great many genres.
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Jeff, the other myth that I asked you to bust in our previous conversation was
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whether Meg Foster's eyes are as hypnotizing in real life as they are.
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She's otherworldly. i i i've done two
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films with her and and she's just like a
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otherworldly creature she's such a sweetheart and
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you know she just hypnotizes an audience at these
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at these conventions we'll go up and do a panel and like i'll go a lot of times
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with my friend richard break and we just hand the microphone to meg and she'll
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just explain like how she walked to the hotel that day and she just takes you
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on this crazy journey just her voice her body her eyes she's just like a mythical.
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Beast she's such a sweetheart and yeah her eyes are like,
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They're like mirrors. It's fantastic. As is cursed in Baja.
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Look for it. Did we cover everything? Did we repeat anything?
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No, I think we actually got some good original material this time.
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It's a shame. The other was original too, by the way. Yeah.
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It's a shame that in the parallel universe, we couldn't go back and get the
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actual recording and cobble it together and have a really, really comprehensive interview.
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Well the other thing where you you had mentioned
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apocalypse now which i've heard a lot of like that yeah well no i heard that
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reference just because it's like okay it's just that that that because i always
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i always really try to avoid that's why i look at all the other interviews because
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i try to avoid the same questions like you know what was it like to be herman munster.
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Yeah you didn't go there yeah because i was like he's probably sick of hearing
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munster questions Oh, no, no, no. I love Herman. Is that all you've got?
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She's like, oh, there's another guy. All he's got is, oh, yeah,
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what was it like to be? Oh, no, Herman Munster was a real gift.
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The whole thing was like, and it came to such a weird. The Munsters were my childhood.
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Every afternoon, and it was the Munsters and the Adams family, back to back.
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Well, all of us really dug it, but especially Rob and Dan Roebuck. Like, they knew every.
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As I said, I'm a friend and I've had Danny on a couple of times,
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Danny Roebuck. he's a he's a treasure that chap yeah yeah he's an encyclopedia
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great stories too all the stuff.
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He's in the river's
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edge and the mother in that was
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in our movie constance forslung yeah incredible
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stuff it's a small world the movie business yeah no
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yeah the monsters great sherry great rob
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it it was like a a handful of
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us go to another country in the in the
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middle of covid there's a lockdown curfews and
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like the group of us made it happen to dp the
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the producer and it was to try
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to do a comedy with a whole crew in
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masks and shields you just see their eyeballs right
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right yeah like if any comedy which i
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do a lot of more comedic commercials and stuff you're always
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kind of looking at the camera people or seeing if anybody's smiling or laughing
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and it's nothing man and they don't even they barely speak a lot of them didn't
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speak english so they're just staring at you with it because there's crickets
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so it was it was a tough tough audience except you just see rob around the monitor he's like.
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Half smiles okay i got it i got it i
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got it i hope so i got it so that was
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it was a trippy trippy thing and and the last
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day of shooting that and then i'll i'll bow out
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in the monsters we they had a drone come down
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to shoot the whole cast and crew right and we came
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out it was in front of the castle and i ran out of the makeup room i was half
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green and you know i'm standing there and we'll take the picture and i turn
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around and everybody take took off their masks and shield i'd been working with
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these people for three months and i didn't even know what they look like.
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First time i saw them outside everybody took off
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their thing for the photo it was just it was
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a really surreal shoot and
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that whole experience of knowing like the rest of
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the world you're not sure what's going to happen because nobody did
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know at the time yeah so yeah it was
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it was a cool one and we got through it and yeah
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it was a real gift that he gave that to me rob that's awesome
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fantastic just is cursed in
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the baja check it out in baja cursed
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in baja not the bar i'm never gonna get
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this right ladies and gentlemen
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check out cursed in baja it's being
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released by anchor bay october 29th and
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then check out december for physical media releases
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and the soundtrack on vinyl everything sounds better
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better on vinyl i can't wait to get
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the blu-ray dvd will there be any like extra features mate you're doing a comment
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yeah yeah yeah i did do some stuff and again it was like it again here we are
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low budget as as low as you could be yeah anchor bay's like so would you have
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the behind the scenes of and uh i was like,
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No, we really had a crew.
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You're trying to make a documentary as well. Yeah, are you kidding me?
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But I went to the location where we shot with a selfie stick.
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And I walked around telling stories because that's – Oh, that's great. Yeah.
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And then we used clips, and it ended up working out really well.
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So, yeah, there's a commentary.
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There's a behind – and yeah i i there's
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nothing there's nothing to be ashamed of that there's there's
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a very proud this movie barbara crampton
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like the way
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we did it it's like barbara do you have a few hours can i get
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you in here and there's a jail scene yeah why not
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let let me know uh when you need me and it's
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like all these guys are friends kanejo he's an amazing
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rapper this guy is a rapper in mexico
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a finnegan he's a big star old friends
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i didn't know her but she was just brilliant these
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guys brilliant there's the producer this
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woman i've done stuff with it was just all friends friends and family we pulled
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it off fantastic and all mixed together in possibly the world's only chupacabra
33:19
thriller if you like blood neo-noir if you're interested in the travails south of the border.
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Check out Hearst in Baja from Anchor Bay October 29th.
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Physical media releases to follow in December and the soundtrack on LP.
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It's been great to twice this morning. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. Speak with the wonderful Jeff Daniel Phillips, cursed in Baja.
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Jeff, it's been good to get to know you, mate, many times.
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Yeah, yeah. I feel like I've really gotten to know you. If you bring the film
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overseas. Yeah, why don't I? Do you have conventions down there? Yeah, we have.
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I believe our equivalent to Comic-Con is called Supernova or something.
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You might have heard of that.
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I don't know if we have horror conventions here. I think you do.
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I think you do. I'm pretty sure like Bill Mosley, one of those guys all over the world.
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Yeah, Bill's done a couple of films here in Queensland. He did that movie Bored.
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Did you see it? It was like a big killer pig movie.
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I remember reading about it for sure. Yeah, he's in that one.
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But, yeah, look, if you ever make it down another, we'll have a beer,
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and I'll bring the DVD, and I'll get the name of the movie right.
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And I'll just repeat the same stories. Yeah, and I'll say, told me the sneakers story again.
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You told it to me before but this time you're telling it to me in
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person thank you yes cursed
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in baja links in the description anchor
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bay entertainment it's out now get over to get down to the links in the description
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and then get over and check out cursed in baja jeff daniel phillips cursed in
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baja wherever and wherever you can great film,
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interesting exciting,
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inventive, independently awesome, Kirsten Baha,
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