The VelociPastor
A man of the claw
Country
Production
Budget
$35 000
Box office
$100 000
Director
Brendan Steere
Actors
Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Daniel Steere, Fernando Pacheco de Castro, Aurelio Voltaire, Yang Jiechang, Jesse Turits, Zachary Steere, Claire Hsu, David Sokol
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Brendan Steere
Producer
Brendan Steere, Brandon Taylor, Jesse Gouldsbury, Jessica Yue
Camera operator
Jesse Gouldsbury
Composer
Artist
Siyu Lin
Audition
Editing
Brendan Steere
Whole Team (11)
Whole Team (11)
Short description
After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a prostitute convinces him to fight crime. And ninjas.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is a full-length adaptation of a grindhouse trailer that Brendan Steere (director, screenwriter, and producer) shot as part of a school assignment and which unexpectedly went viral. (Grindhouse is a cinema showing mainly exploitation films, i.e., films exploiting a popular theme for quick profit.)
- The film was shot on 16mm film. Before developing the negatives, they were artificially “aged,” meaning they were placed in the microwave for 10 minutes at a temperature of 93 degrees Celsius. Scratches on the film appeared because Brendan Steere pressed the undeveloped film against various surfaces in his own bathroom (it was the only room in the house without windows, so dark that recently shot film could be removed from its case without fear of exposure).
- According to Brendan Steere, the velociraptor costume used in the film was found in the basement of his own house, where it had been lying for years. The costume was originally made for a school production, but it was not allowed to be used then.
- During the filming of the final battle, a police unit arrived at the set. The filming took place in a relatively remote and therefore deserted part of the park, but someone still noticed what was happening on the makeshift set from afar and called the police, reporting that "some ninjas were running around the park and someone was in a fat dinosaur costume."
- Fernando R. Pacheco was delighted to be offered a role in the film. He came up with his character's name and profession himself, shaved his head, and even bought a costume for filming.
- The film mainly used practical effects. In this regard, Brendan Steere took his cue from his idol, Guillermo del Toro. He even named the priest Dag Jones – after the actor who starred in del Toro's dramatic fantasy film "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006).
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