Gut Pile

Not that it matters now because it's been ten years since Gut Pile was released, but to everyone who said it was too long even at 50 minutes: it was never meant to be released as a feature. Jerry (O'Sullivan, the writer/director) wrote it as one part of an anthology that he and I were producing. We actually shot the entire short on 16mm but ran out of funds to complete the anthology. Instead of trying to raise money to shoot the other segments, he was talked into "padding" the script and producing it as a feature and shooting it on video, something he agrees should never have been done. As a 20-minute short the story was tighter, there was a lot more tension, the acting was much better (different actors were used the first time), the pace was quicker, and the effects looked much better on film. Yes, there were some shots that were similar to Evil Dead, but not as many in the original short.

I'm hoping that we'll be able to construct the original 16mm version and include it on a DVD we'll be releasing of a feature we're currently working on. I think you'll like it better in its original form.