The VelociPastor

The VelociPastor (2018)

Timing: 1:15 (75 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2018-09-28

Country

United States

Production

WildEye Releasing, Hollow Tree Productions

Genre

Horror, Action, Comedy

Budget

$35 000

Revenue

$0

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Director

Brendan Steere

Actors

Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Claire Hsu, Aurelio Voltaire, Daniel Steere, Fernando Pacheco de Castro, Nicholas M. Garofolo, Zachary Steere, Jesse Turits, David Sokol
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Scenario

Brendan Steere

Producer

Brendan Steere, Brandon Taylor, Jesse Gouldsbury, Jessica Yue

Operator

Jesse Gouldsbury

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Brendan Steere
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• 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 The costume was originally made for a school production, but it was not allowed to be used then.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).