Fabian and I had talked about numerous ideas before we even considered Rose. All of the ideas started out simple, but then they would start getting complex or expensive. But the things we always kept going back to were ultraviolent horror films.

I kept telling him how I hadn’t seen a good gore film since the ‘80s and that I wanted to make one that would be nauseatingly gory. He liked the idea, but we both knew that if we wanted to “make it” in Hollywood that we couldn’t make that type of movie because Hollywood is full of a bunch of snobby assholes who have started believing that blood is a bad thing to show in a horror film! Jesus, the fucking genre was built on blood!

So we tried to think of more “Hollywood friendly” ideas. But we kept going back to horror movies.

Finally, we decided that all the ideas we had been tossing around would still be great films to make, but we wanted decent equipment to make them with. All we had at our disposal were two one-chip mini-DV cameras, two computers, and the desire to be filmmkaers. So we decided to go ahead and make a gory horror movie using this equipment in hopes that, when it was completed, we could sell it to a video distribution company and then use that money to go make a better movie with better equipment.

Let me backtrack just a bit.

The reason that we went ahead with the gore film idea (despite the Hollywood snobbery I just mentioned) is as follows.

I had been checking out a lot of movies from my local library for awhile, and a lot of them were horror films that had bypassed theaters and gone straight to video. And I started noticing something about these films.