We've just received word that Slime City Massacre, Greg Lamberson's follow up to his 1988 cult favourite - Slime City has just wrapped over in Buffalo, New York where it was shot in several locations.
The shoot lasted 19 days and was documented fairly extensively in a series of video diaries. Check these out here.
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“Despite our budget, this was the biggest film I’ve ever worked on,” says Lamberson. “We had four characters who become Slime Heads, five who are mercenaries, eight who are cannibals, and fifty homeless people. My director of photography, Chris Santucci, did some amazing shots and the entire cast performed beyond my wildest expectations. Halfway through the shoot Debbie and Kealan came to me and said, ‘Greg, this has been such a wonderful experience that we’ve decided to get SCM tattoos. I was speechless; Debbie’s been in 200 films, and this is her first tattoo. Mine, too!”
SLIME CITY MASSACRE is set in the ruins of midtown Manhattan seven years after a dirty bomb decimates the financial district. Four squatters discover a supply of “Himalayan yogurt” and “Zachary Devon’s Home Brewed Elixir.” The concoctions turn each survivor into a slime oozing monster compelled to murder as they are possessed by the spirits of cultists who committed suicide decades earlier. Sabin appears as Zachary in flashbacks and Bogle returns as her SLIME character, now called “Swan.”
“SLIME CITY MASSACRE is loaded with old school latex effects and newfangled CGI,” Lamberson continues, “although the SFX crew used silicone, not latex. There’s a lot of action and gore, and references to other 1980s splatter flicks abound. Lloyd Kaufman and Roy Frumkes generously flew here on their own dime to participate. Lloyd has a cameo at the beginning of the film which should get things off to a good start, and Roy has a more substantial role as a greedy developer who hires mercenaries to wipe out the homeless people in Slime City.” |
