QUOTES:

"I don't do much. I make movies. Well, I think about making movies anyway, I've not finished one yet. [laughs] ... I'm going to finish one tonight. I've invited three of my friends over to be in it. ... I'll finish the movie and then, I am probably going to die." - Larry

"Right now we're recording us breaking down." - Mike

"Well, fox and I have one thing in common: we can't get any. Great." - Mike

LARRY: [to Dick] You can say anything you want.
MIKE: Don't talk, though.

[on his eleven-squirt Slushee] "This is the opposite of alcohol." - Jimmy

"I brought the latest issue of 'Cosmopolitan.'" - Dick

"I'm sorry, I've never met anyone with the name 'Dick' before." - Sam

"What if evolution is a two-way street?" - Larry

"I don't have a light side! My light side is Bud Light!" - Griff

"The built a porn shop, yes. A porn shop on my street." - Larry

"I got two-thirds of a million dollars." - Griff

"The human race: is it a bad idea?" - Larry

"I think all the guys know that Penthouse is better than Playboy. There's lesbians!" - Dick

"What's your favorite scary cereal?" - Larry

LARRY: [reading headline] Random Rage Hits Children.
SAM: It's about time something good happened in this society.

"Animal Game, Act ... fuck. [leaves]" - Sam

"Chocolate syrup? Isn't that what Hitchcock used for blood in 'Psycho?'" - Larry


WAITRESS: You can have anything you want.
LARRY: That's not true.
WAITRESS: [laughs] Well, anything on the menu anyway. [leaves]
LARRY: We need a new menu, is what we need.
MIKE: The waitresses are sensitive to philosophical discussion.

SAM: Cosmo confessions. I'm burning it.

MIKE: This woman is really attractive. Wow.

MIKE: They say war is hell, well, I suppose they're right.

GRIFF: Life is like a box of grenades. It blows you to bits.

LARRY: You're playing...
GRIFF: A pissed-off white dude.

DICK: Yeah, get the ducks!

LARRY: They fish at night, apparently, it catches the fish off-guard.

GRIFF: [seeing Slushee] Oh. Jesus on a stick.

GRIFF: Here's our villain: Senator Palpatine! Oh no!

GRIFF: You can drink his brain.

JIMMY: Action heroes do not use condoms.



CURIOUS FACTS: There are obvious references to the art of making horror movies throughout. The "cabin in the woods" plotline in Mike's movie is based on The Evil Dead.

Sam the sound guy [AKA Dr. Johnson] wears a gas-station attendant shirt with a leopard-print collar and a nametag reading "Korn."

Sam's "boom mike" is a hollow drum stick hooked up to a tiny amp. It was previously used for shooting spitballs.

Larry's house belonged to Ben Sipprell, who plays Dick.

Griff [Justin Bielawa] wears a cap reading "Special Effects Crew - Wing Commander," which he also wore in "Dr. Fred's The Phantom Movie." Some of Griff's part references "Blair Witch," as in looking for cigarettes, singing "Gilligan's island," and disappearing mysteriously.

The masks were previously used in the "Dr. Fred" movies.

Mike's camcorder is an ancient Betacam from the 80s. It doesn't work.Griff's is a brownie home movie camera from the 60s. It doesn't work. Dick's is a VHS-C camcorder from the 90s. It works, but isn't used. Larry's is a Hi-8 Sony Handicam.

In the original planned ending to the movie, Mike [Rabbit] died. The improvisational style led to a much stranger ending featuring Dick [the fox]. Although the characters never admit it, there may indeed be something dangerous in those woods: Griff's American Flag is found hanging from a treebranch at the end, a final warning, one of many little clues.

There were no second takes in this shooting, which indeed all took place in one night as it appears onscreen, and the five hours of rough footage could actually be watched as a finished movie by those patient enough. Any screwups were included as part of the plot.

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