SPIRITEUR diary

SPIRITEUR DIARY - 10/19/9 - okay, so I've been doing the movie journal stuff at mmmmmongrel.blogspot.com, but I hate jumping around from site to site and right now all the action is right here.

Spiriteur began as an germ in my head when I was temping after I graduated from AFI back in 2000. I'd file and xerox reports at this company in Burbank and it was so tedious and boring that I started to try to think up the scariest stuff I could, just to keep from numbing out. I started thinking about scary movies, like really scary movies, not just thrillers dressed up as scary movies. I started writing SPIRITEUR, working on it in between other writing projects. When I finished the first draft in 2002 I gave it to my manager at the Pitt Group. They told me it was "too small," "too disturbing."

I kept noodling with it in between other projects for the next seven years. After MONGREL COLLECTIVE finished the guerrilla version of my crime thriller Red Hands back in July (we've just finished editing it and are getting ready to put it out there for you and send it off to Slamdance, but that's another story), SPIRITEUR seemed like the next logical step.

In future posts I'll give you the skinny on the production process and hopefully inspire you to collaborate with us in the future, or even go out and make your own movie, which we've proven can be done quickly for virtually no money if you're down with the MONGREL dogma.