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Pissed off on a porn set1/24/2024 "I was almost on the set of one that would have been absolutely mental. When the show was over we cleared the whole thing out and now it's a flat empty lot again. One night a rape/murder occurred in one of the junk cars we had in the lot. Once we started filming we had a fence put up that was covered with tarps so you couldn't get into or see into the set. and when we first showed up the place was covered in used needles and dead dogs. We had to cover the lot with about 40 trucks full of rubble, beater cars, junk metal, etc. "Had a standing set for the duration of a show that was basically an empty lot, one block long in a really shitty area. It was over multiple days, all overnight shoots." I was one of the people that had to run power 300ft through all of them. "We were in an alley behind a gay spa/bar that had hundreds of used condoms on the ground scattered everywhere. We powered through, and most people slept in their cars before driving back to LA." I've never been more tired and delirious in my whole life. He said there's no way around it because our time at the location was expiring, and he just needed us to be really positive and supportive because the rest of the crew and cast was going to be a wreck. Like, think the whole cast and crew shooting for 12-14 hours longer than we expected. He says there's a major script problem, he's working through it on the fly, but either way we are in for a REALLY long night. Mind you, this town has like 60 total people living there.Īnyway, going into the last night of the shoot the director pulls me and the producer aside and says that there's a big problem and he isn't really sure how to go forward. We had this amazing bar/lounge location where a majority of the film took place, and the bar owner was nice enough to close it off for the weekend for us 'Hollywood hotshots' - her words. "I was shooting a horror flick at some podunk town off Route 66 a few hours north of LA. A neighbor of the thong guy, some millionaire lawyer, threatened to smash my head open with a bat (I'm female and was in my mid-20s at the time)." The final scene was shot in a mansion and the owner of the location walked around in a thong, exposing himself to all the female crew members. He cast a porn star to do a cameo and ended up staggering around pimping her out to the crew at the wrap party. His work was brilliant, but he was a hot mess. The director had also just fallen off the wagon. He called me screaming in the middle of the night multiple times, claimed we withheld his pay, and took a bunch of our rental equipment hostage. The craft services guy they hired was a junkie who fed us cheap food and put the rest of his budget in his arm. I have a hundred bizarre stories from that set. All of a sudden I was the poor sap trying to hold this production together as it exploded at every seam. "I got a battlefield promotion when the line producer walked on a VERY poorly run pilot I worked on. We've parsed the wildly entertaining stories and selected some highlights from the thread "What's the worst film set you have been on?" (We've opted to keep the posts anonymous, in case any of you ever work with anyone involved.) Enjoy. Some angry Redditors took to the r/Filmmakers subreddit yesterday to share some of their worst production stories, and it will sure make you feel better about any problems you may have had on set.
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