Steven Seagal shitting on himself award for most unbelievable anecdote from the actual film shoot
The 30-hour dinner-scene shoot in 100-degree heat
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- Introduced as a rare category before the categories; the hosts suspect they picked the same anecdote, given the film was made for $60,000 in 100-degree Texas heat.
- After getting the grandfather's old-age makeup, John Dugan would not repeat the five-hour process, so his scenes, mostly the dinner scene, were shot over the next 30 hours in summer heat in a room of dead animals and rotting food with no air conditioning and blackout curtains; the stench made people pass out and go outside to puke.
- Edwin Neal, who played the hitchhiker, called filming that scene the worst time of his life, worse than being in Vietnam with people trying to kill him; a host compares being up 24 hours after an early flight back from Boston, and the shoot went six hours past that.
- Marilyn Burns was tied up the entire time, screaming while being mocked, and the cast got paid about 150 bucks; the 16 millimeter cameras needed so much light that interior scenes generated extra heat.