Invasion For Flesh And Blood

Invasion For Flesh And Blood

Released 2006 USA and Canada via Troma, Inc

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Warren's memories: 

INVASION FOR FLESH AND BLOOD was a direct sequel to FLESH EATERS FROM OUTER SPACE. The original shooting title was RAISING HELL, not INVASION FOR FLESH AND BLOOD, but when you cut a deal with a distributor they sometimes want to change title to something they feel is more commercial.

INVASION started shooting a few months after FLESH EATERS (AKA "A TASTE FOR FLESH AND BLOOD") got picked-up by a distributor. Some of the people who worked on FLESH EATERS stayed on for this sequel. Tony Annunziata, Kathy Months, my father, Shawn Reich, Gary Hoffman, Steve Mezo, Kenneth Arotin and Adrienne D'Accardi stayed for the sequel. Nick Primiano and James Cirronella were new crew members/ actors.
 
 When I wrote the screenplay I kept it simple so things could be added as we shot. I wanted as many splatter effects as I could get and we came up with a list of maybe 20 interesting ways for the monster to kill people. We posted the kill scenes on a wall and individual crew members selected what splatter effect they would personally like to do.
 
It was the best movie I made from a behind-the-scenes point of view. I had people sculpting, painting, building sets and props, which allowed me to include more effects in the movie.
 
Jim re-sculpted the monster's mouth because he felt he could improve the "flap mouth" Tony and I did. Actually Tony and I didn't get to finish the head before we had to start shooting on FLESH EATERS. We were originally going to have finger-like claws in all of those holes around the monster's mouth that would reach out and grab a victim and drag his head into the fanged mouth. Tony did excellent sketches of what we wanted the finished monster suit to look like but time ran out and we had to start shooting.
 
Jim loves Godzilla movies and he re-sculpted the mouth area with very cool teeth. The only problem is he didn't listen to me when I told him not to use cotton in the latex as a thickening material, so his new monster mouth looked great but didn't move. We had to make additional biting monster effects head for the attack scenes or when the monster's mouth was required to move. I wish the suit head had had mouth movement, it would have looked better. 
 
I was always looking to grab footage anywhere I could to add scope to those early movies. I used  those airliners landing at the airport in all four movies of my first films.
And a town was doing an emergency drill of some kind so I got lots of footage of a wrecked train, police, helicopters and fire department stuff. A Critic in a review said I had stolen that footage but he was dead wrong; I shot everything that was on the screen in those movies myself. 
 

Jim's father was a volunteer fireman and got us matching equipment and suits so our scenes where Kathy Monks is found on the beach in the opening matched all the other footage I had shot previously at the town drill. 
 
One critic in a 2005 review said I was a filmmaker who didn't allow working conditions or lack of budget to stop me from accomplishing my story-telling goals. He is 1000% correct. I did scenes whether I had the money to do them right or not, hoping that my talent would still shine through to potential investors.

I must say INVASION was extremely hard work  but we had a lot of fun doing it. There was a sense of pride on the part of the young people working with me. They were fans of this kind of movie and respected the material even if we were trying to do comedy with it. I think that sense of fun was transferred to the movie itself and makes the movie more enjoyable for the audience.
  
INVASION FOR FLESH AND BLOOD and FLESH EATERS FROM OUTER SPACE both got reviewed in the NY Times.

Review for Invasion for Flesh and Blood

Joe Bob Briggs  "Joe Bob's Drive-In"

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May 06, 2013

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Rick

0 Whose the actress that got her throat slashed in the movie while doing cocaine?

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