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Need backstory

posted 17 years ago by terryi1
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Love this little cult film and working on an article about it for regional history magazine. Can't locate anyone but Ragsdale who worked on it and no reply yet from him. I had a line on Matt Borel, now acting in New Orleans, but since Katrina, the New Orleans theater people are 'gone with the wind'.

Anyone out there know anyone involved with production (cast and/or crew) and how I can get in touch with them? Or anyone know details on how this little diamond in the rough got made? By the way, I live in Natchitoches and teach in the college where it was filmed.

[–] GiantPlum 17 years ago

Mary Agen Cox is a very respected stage actress now is Austin, Texas where I live. She was just in a play here this month. I've never met her but my spouse does local theater and one of his fellow company members might know her... Ive often wished Icould tell her what a cult following the movie has, and ask her about it.
I saw this in the theater when it came out, and the opening, with the sounds of all the unseen carnage. was so creepy in a darkened theater. i just got a copy and was thrilledto see it again.

[–] manwithponcho 16 years ago

There's a lengthy interview with the director in the new book Nightmare USA.

[–] VinnieRattolle 9 years ago

Doubtlessly too late to help with your article, but according to "Nightmare USA," writer Richard H. Wadsack (really, Dick Wadsack is not a pseudonym?!) was born in 1946, director James L. Wilson was born in 1947 and both are from Shreveport, L.A. And Wilson apparently still has a 35mm print of the movie with the deleted fourth vignette intact. There's some fascinating information about the production in the book, and I'm sure if other principal cast/crew members were tracked down, there are tons of great stories that are still untold.