Police Investigate Bloody Car That Was Part Of A Movie Set

Having done F/X and prosthetic make-up for an indie horror film in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I can related to this.

Police investigated what they thought was a very bloody murder scene to find out that it was only a scene for a movie. Police received a call, went to the scene, and found "a parked car with what looked like brain matter and blood on the front seat, dashboard and windows but no victim."

After a little searching, they found the car's owner, who was okay. The owner was working with two other students to make a horror movie called "Summer School".

I worked on a real stinker vampire movie about ten years ago. I made all the torn-out throats and gallons of stage blood. I also worked with the F/X crew to create intestines (out of condoms and KY jelly) and I worked with stage firearms. We had a scene involving a character's head being yanked off and thrown down an alley by the vampire, but on screen it looked so unbelievably fake that I cringed watching it.

The only good thing about this movie was that it introduced some new bands. Only one of the bands made the big time - Squirrel Nut Zippers. They caught on a few years later during the pop-swing craze of the late '80s, early '90s.

Thankfully, to counteract the embarrassment over that movie, I'm proud to say that I also did prosthetic makeup for an episode from the first season of "Homicide: Life On The Streets". I'm especially proud of the gunshot wound to the head that I made. I worked with the Baltimore City coroner, who said I had the projectory right on the wound, which entered near the scalp line and exited near the spine where the head and neck meet. That episode won a couple of Emmys, including (I believe), an Emmy for makeup. I loved that work. It was lots of fun.