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Synopsis

The Carnal Morgue presents its first twisted tale of macabre erotica:

Mike loves porn. Unfortunately he is blinded by his addiction to XXX entertainment as it slowly eats away at every aspect of his life. One day a mysterious DVD arrives in the mail and Mike quickly begins to realize there is a much darker side to the world of adult entertainment.

Bondage, Murder, Self-Mutilation, Cannibalism, Necrophilia - these are just the icing on the cake of this journey into Hell.

The Cast

Caroline Pierce - Andromeda
Caroline has starred in over 100 adult films and graced the covers of numerous men's magazines. Recently Caroline has served as an extra on the sets of The OC, CSI and Miss Congeniality 2. She is trained as a classical dancer and she is currently pursuing a career as a voice actor. Slaughter Disc marks her first leading role in a feature horror film.

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Robert Williams - Mike
Robert is rapidly gaining experience as an actor in the independent cinema crowd in San Diego. Robert is a natural method actor and he is currently taking acting courses to improve his skill. Slaughter Disc is his first feature film.

Jewels Mackenzie - Carrie
Jewels Mackenzie has been actively involved with the theater since she was 12. At 21, she performed with her first Professional theatrical group in "No Mother to Guide her or More to be Pitied then Censured" as Spring Overton, the Naive damsel in distress. She then went on to perform in her favorite production, thus far, "Lunch Hour" as Carrie Sykes. A Spoiled, Neurotic Child trapped in a woman's body. Slaughter Disc is her first feature film.

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Also Starring:
Travis Lee, Albin Kinsey, Gabe Messer, Ashley Rees, Chris Spoto, Pete Arnold , Craig Curlee, Roger Gobin, Kristen Quitmeyer and a few special cameos by David Quitmeyer

The Crew

David Quitmeyer - Writer & Director

Numerous critics have proclaimed that David Quitmeyer is a "filmmaker with balls" after his directorial debut with the splatterpunk feature Slaughter Disc. At early age, David discovered his love of horror movies; today he is an award winning writer and filmmaker. David's films have been featured in numerous film festivals, TV programs, radio shows and magazines around the world.

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Peter Gorritz - Composer
A diverse musician and composer, Peter was born in New York City, and raised on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico. Originally a self-taught guitarist, Peter studied for a short period at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston before eventually moving to California. While touring as a guitarist for The Shroud Peter met his current band mates from The Last Dance. Peter's first venture into scoring film was with the dark and moody film noir, Deadly Obsessions . Peter was trusted to use all of his musical skills and influences to compose the score for Slaughter Disc. The result of his sleepless nights and caffeine fueled coma is a powerful musical score that propels the film through it most erotic and horrific moments.

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Supporting Crew

Screen Shots

The Film's Inspiration

Mixing the genres of Horror and Erotica is certainly nothing new. Whether you look at the seductive lore of the succubus in early religious texts or the voluptuous curves of horror hostess Elvira, Mistress of the Dark on late night TV, one thing is apparent: sex and horror, no pun intended, are perfect bedfellows.

Filmmaker David Quitmeyer has always loved a good horror story. Many would say that he enjoys them just a little too much. He felt that it was finally the right time to make a horror movie all his own and give something back to the genre that had heavily influenced his life.

As a child, Quitmeyer was a huge fan of television horror anthologies such as Tales from the Darkside, The Twilight Zone, Monsters, and his absolute favorite, Tales from the Crypt. Other early influences in his life were the literary works of Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King and Clive Barker. "Stephen King was my idol growing up," admits Quitmeyer. "He is a simple family guy, yet he has a fantastic imagination that has entertained millions of people over the years."

Slaughter Disc is based on Quitmeyer's original short story "The Tape", which was written over 15 years ago - long before movies such as The Ring and White Noise existed. In the original story a college student receives a transparent VCR tape in the mail. Each time it is viewed, a new horrific sex act is played out on screen. Eventually friends and family of the viewer are gruesomely murdered and a mysterious woman known as the Bride of Death performs deviant sexual acts with the mutilated corpses.

"The Tape" was re-written to further explore the supernatural realms of modern technology. Cell phones, DVDs and the World Wide Web were not around when the story was originally written. David also stripped out most of the gore and sex in order to make the story more acceptable to audiences as well as to allow the movie to be filmed on a shoestring budget. "I basically cut out all of the effects that I knew I couldn't do myself", states Quitmeyer. "If worse came to worse I knew I could hold the camera in one hand and the blood tubing in the other."

Quitmeyer wanted to not only push the envelope of sex and gore in shoestring budget filmmaking but to also follow in the tradition of great horror films by educating audiences about addiction at the same time.

Addiction affects all of us in one form or another. Some people drink heavily and others eat too much, but the topic of sex addiction often flies under the public-eye's radar even as the White House dodges around questions about sexual affairs and sex offenders murder our children.

"There is a moral to almost every horror story out there", explains Quitmeyer. "Whether it's don't play with God's plans, don't make fun of people or don't swim alone, there is also something to be learned. I've never seen a movie focus on the growing problem of sex addiction, so I thought it would be an interesting subject to explore from a supernatural perspective. The sad truth is that too much of anything will kill you."

Production Notes

Those who know David Quitmeyer will tell you he is a man that faces everything he does with great passion. So it was no surprise to those closest to him when he decided to tackle the production of this film using only the barest of crews.

Slaughter Disc was filmed under a budget of $9,000 in MiniDV format. The film was purposefully captured with "guerilla" filmmaking techniques, including hand-held cameras, low lighting, and un-focused frames. The feel of a "B-Movie" was used to make the subject matter of porn addiction easier for audiences to accept. Two weeks of actual filming was spread across three months in an effort to work around the individual real-life schedules of the cast & crew.

David not only wrote the story and screenplay, but he is also the film's director, producer, casting agent, set designer, film editor, main camera man, publicist, location scout, wardrobe consultant, special effects artists, and even made to cameo appearances in the film. In doing this, David was free to spend more money on the actual production of the movie rather than on crew salaries. It also allowed him to capture the look and feel of the movie as he had envisioned it from the beginning.

Peter Gorritz of the Goth band The Last Dance was hired to compose a dark and moody score for the film. Peter composed the music based on a rough cut of the movie over a two-month period. David and Peter communicated by email 99% of the time and swapped video and music files through email. Peter was encouraged to reach deep down and use all of his musical experience and influences while composing the score for the movie.

While low budget in nature, Slaughter Disc utilizes a number of sophisticated modern special effects including the use of blue-screens, CGI and makeup prosthetics. Four different types of blood were used, including one created with water-based personal lubricant. The lubricant based blood was used to prevent the female performers from developing yeast infections during some of the story's more intimate scenes.

Makeup artist Catherine Crump was recruited to develop the effects and styles for the film's female anti-hero, Andromeda Strange. For the story's climactic ending, Catherine developed a secret blend of lotions and sprays to create the glow-in-the-dark effects that the script called for. Makeup assistant Ashley Rees donated her time to the project and helped Catherine with the application and blending of latex makeup appliances.

Subliminal imagery such as photos of actual decayed corpses and video of cemeteries are overlaid throughout the film's more horrific moments. Rather than spray blood everywhere, realistic gore was used based on the filmmaker's own experiences working in the emergency room of a regional trauma center.

Independent filmmakers have always faced challenges completing their projects. For some they are only minor setbacks, while others threatened to shut down the production completely. Despite these misfortunes, the cast and crew pulled together, worked as a team, and overcame the impossible in order to complete the movie. The following is a summary of the obstacles that occurred during the filming of this movie.

• Jewels Mackenzie broke her arm shortly after auditioning.

• The original make-up artist resigned two weeks before filming started.

• One week before filming began, the tenants of the apartment we had secured for a location, were evicted.

• The sound person never showed up or returned our calls once started filming started.

• Twenty minutes of footage in Mike's apartment was lost due to a bad tape head. The scenes were re-shot at a later date.

• The original dress that was designed for Andromeda did not arrive in time for filming and we were forced to use another outfit.

• The microphone used to record 90% of the audio only recorded in mono, which was not discovered until the film was imported to the computer.

• The owners of the adult bookstore changed their mind about allowing us to film around their sales counter. The scenes were filmed at the studio with a poorly made blue screen and a folding table.

• The day of the world premiere/cast party, the computer would not render the entire film and it had to be shown in two parts. The process was completed only minutes before the screening began.

Interviews

David Quitmeyer Interview
- DVD Resurrections

Caroline Pierce - Scream for Me
- Community X

Caroline Pierce Interviewed by the Rumour Machine
- The Rumor Machine

David Quitmeyer Interviewed by the Rumour Machine
- The Rumor Machine

An Interview with Caroline Pierce, AKA: Andromeda Strange
- Severed Cinema

An Interview with Slaughter Disc Director David Quitmeyer
- Severed Cinema

An interview with Caroline Pierce
- Carnival of the Grotesque

Caroline Pierce
- Horror Watch

David Quitmeyer: Director of Slaughter Disc
- The Keyhole

Interview with Andromeda Strange, AKA: Caroline Pierce
- The Horror Review

A Conversation with David Quitmeyer
- Atrocities Cinema

An Interview With David Quitmeyer by Dale Pierce
- Johnz Insane Plan

David Quitmeyer
- Horror Watch