The Thing That Sucked From Below

PLOT: Papa Joe Parker (Levi Corcoran) is trying to save his farm from contractor Smith Weston (David Alan Scott Jr.), who wants to turn the farmland into condo space. At the same time, his older son Davy Joe Parker (Adam Lindquist) is bitten by a strange creature. To the dismay of his financee Mindy (Amelia Harnas), as well as several townspeople, Davy turns into a horrible creature that devours its victims by sucking out their internal organs. Detective Bic Schaffer (Mark Bettinger) and Doctor Linda Phoenix (Adriana Harnas) team up in a frantic effort to find this mysterious beast. It's B-movie horror at its tacky best!

END CREDITS: under construction

TENTATIVE CAST:

PARTY PEOPLE- TBA
DRUNK GUY- Daniel Berman
DRUNK GIRL- Alexis Lambert
CREATURE #1- David Alan Scott Jr. (off-camera voice)
PAPA JOE PARKER- Levi Corcuran
BABY JOE PARKER- Kevin Hurley
SMITH WESTON- David Alan Scott Jr.
DAVY JOE PARKER/CREATURE #2- Adam Lindquist
MINDY- Amelia Harnas
DOCTOR LINDA PHOENIX- Adriana Harnas
BOY IN CAR- David Seymour
GIRL IN CAR- Beth Worthey
DETECTIVE BIC SCHAFFER- Mark Bettinger
COP #1- TBA
COP #2- TBA
HARE KRISHNAS:
* TBA
* TBA
* TBA

CAMERA PERSONS: under construction
* David Alan Scott Jr.
* Cynthia Clark
* Adam Lindquist
* etc.

SPECIAL THANKS TO: under construction
* TBA
* etc.

SONGS:

"(Theme from) The Thing that Sucked from Below"
performed by Simple Wisdom featuring DASjr
music by Adam Lindquist
lyrics by David Alan Scott Jr.
recording produced by Kevin Hurley

DATE(S) FILMED (SO FAR):
* May 28, 1998 (rejected, incomplete footage)
* various dates in 1999 (stay tuned)
* October 2000 (more info later)
* Summer-Fall 2001 (hopefully)

DATE(S) TO BE EDITED: 2001

LOCATIONS:
* Hornby (rejected footage)
* Beaver Dams
* Corning
* Fredonia
* and other places

c. 1998-2000 DASJr Productions
All Rights Reversed.

HISTORY:

Having written it within three days in late April 1998, I spent the next four months trying--in vain--to film even one scene for this B-movie horror film. One scene in which two people (Laura Marie Kahl and Steve French) get attacked by the monster while making out in a car. Unfortunately, the VHS camera's battery was charged improperly, so it ran out of power before I could finish the scene. In hidsight, that was kind of a good thing, since Laura and Steve (just friends) made the filmed make-out session look more like soft-core porn. At any rate, by the time I left Corning for SUNY Fredonia, I had no scenes filmed for this movie.
I did, however, write the lyrics to a song that I collaborated on with Adam Lindquist. With his girlfriend Amelia, we recorded "(The Theme from) The Thing that Sucked from Below", produced by Kevin Hurley, at a radio station, on my next-to-last night before leaving Corning to go to SUNY College at Fredonia.
Then, in Summer 1999, many scenes were shot for the film (including a re-shot make-out scene with new actors). However, due to a schedule-related misunderstanding with Kevin, I was unable to finish shooting crucial scenes before going back to Fredonia for a second year.
Though I had subsequently desired to finish the film during Spring Break of 2000, conflicting schedules delayed production once again. By then, I was downright sick of the whole thing. It would take a lot to inspire me to even want to finish the troubled production.
However, I managed to shoot footage for the opening scene in Fredonia, during a vacation period in October 2000, when I was hanging out with Cindy, Dan, and Alexis.
In Summer 2001, local rock band Soulstich (Joe Demerrit, Jamison Kirby, and Pete Pulkrabek) had agreed (via Pete) to play Hare Krishnas for one scene, but conflicting schedules intervened once again.
I hope someday to shoot the rest of the required scenes, with some being rewritten (to compensate for certain actors no longer being available to shoot later scenes).
If I ever finish this turkey, I'm having a huge party to celebrate it, because it's been a long time coming.

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