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Cat Vicious is a rising shock jock podcast DJ, with a nihilistic on air personality, who spends most of her show mocking and belittling her listeners. But when a mysterious caller pirates her frequency, things take a turn for the terrifying as Cat ultimately realizes that her beloved radio station might soon become her tomb. Can she survive the night or will this be her last broadcast? A WORD FROM CHRIS "iPsycho" was a brain fart that spun out of control into a really awesome concept for a horror movie. What started out as just a nifty title, which I had borrowed from the "iCarly" TV movie of the same name, quickly became my next official project. But as excited as I was, there were a number of obstacles I had to overcome. The first being a complete accidental deletion of the script. Literally moments after finishing the first draft, my computer suffered a glitch and unexpectedly quit my writing program. Subsequently, all open documents were erased and seeing as how I didn't save it, everything I spent the last 2 hours writing was lost. Even the autosaved version of the document was corrupted and wouldn't open. Needless to say, I was quite pissed off and immediately deterred. But I didn't quit. Kim Santiago and I sat in our seats and literally rewrote everything that was deleted. It was long and arduous, but it had to be done. The second obstacle was acquiring a radio station to film in. You would think that would usually be a piece of cake, but damn, was I wrong. I called up every single station with in a 50 mile radius, including all college stations too. Everyone said no. I heard every excuse from, "you need insurance" to "you're not a student here". But in spite of every door continually slamming in my face, I did not give up. As it turns out, my good friend, Brimstone put me in touch with Nexus Radio Productions literally 24 hours before my scheduled shoot date for the station scenes. And low and behold, the people of Nexus were kind enough to open their doors to me and let me slaughter a couple of people during their automation hours. It was a real treat and I think they had a blast watching. I will also say, it doesn't hurt to be incredibly quick at filming when you're essentially imposing on someone else. And yes, if you scored a location for free, it's imposing no matter how you dice it. So being able to get in and out of a location in under 2 hours really helps sell you as being a "good idea" to those you impose upon. My final obstacle in all of this was scheduling. I had cast iPsycho practically moments after finishing the script; I sent out emails and made calls to everyone that I wanted to be a part of this project. But wouldn't ya know it, one actor, who will remain nameless, dropped out of the project no less than 24 hours before their scheduled shoot time. They sighted "personal problems" as their reason to screw me over. Now I don't know about you, but if you're a rising actor, and constantly pay praise to one specific director, stating how much you love their work and how much you want to team up with them, yet virtually every time they cast you, you flake out last minute, wouldn't you think that director might get a little upset with you? Well I sure was. For the 5th time in a row, this one specific actor bailed on me again at last minute and left me with practically no alternative. But thanks to some quick thinking by Kim and myself, we DID manage to find a last minute replacement actor, and they were excellent in their part. It sucks that one bridge was horribly burned, but at the same time, another was built in it's place. All in all, iPsycho was just a fun idea I had at the spur of a moment and actually managed to get away with making it on a respectable scale. Our budget was less than $50.00 as usual, but thanks to some really special and talented people, you'd never know that. |