Horror: B-movie

The art, unfortunately, ate the camera first. Then it ate Kevin from accounting. Then it absorbed the entire camera crew, their bodies dissolving into gelatinous lumps that still weakly held their boom poles.

We were shooting The Spore That Took Toledo , a masterpiece of low-budget schlock. Our director, Lenny "Five-Takes" Falzone, had found a deal on fifty gallons of corn syrup and red food coloring. Our monster was a rubber suit left over from a 1987 Toho rip-off. Our lead, Dirk Steele (real name: Kevin from accounting), delivered lines like he was returning a library book. horror b-movie

Take fourteen.

"Look out!" Dirk screamed, pointing at the cardboard spaceship. "It's the... uh... slime thing!" The art, unfortunately, ate the camera first

A broke film crew, a cursed script, and a special effect that refuses to stop growing. We were shooting The Spore That Took Toledo

By noon, the craft services table was buried under a pulsating, mustard-yellow carpet of mycelium. The boom mic had turned into a fleshy vine that whispered "Toledo must fall" in a wet, gurgling voice. The script supervisor, Brenda, was last seen crawling into the Porta-Potty, which had grown a thick, leathery hide and started purring.