A story for the unusual happenings section. Editor Jeff Stoll had been up all night working on the editing of Weirdo and just finished it, preparing to go to bed, when creator Dale Pierce, an early riser, just woke up and got on line. The latter went crazy when still half asleep, he though in an email that Stoll had sent (having to do with computer tech and editing speed which the latter knows nothing about) thought somehow the film had been cut in half. "What are you doing," Pierce responded in an email ( "I could hear him screaming in print , so help me, screaming!" Stoll would later tell people. ) Fortune smiled on both men who were online long enough to clear the message up. "Stoll then went to bed in his respective home, while I went to work from my respective home and all was right with the world," Pierce commented.
There is some footage of an old parade taken off 8mm film, used in a segment in Weirdo. This is the 1976 Homecoming for Glendale High School in Glendlae, Arizona, where writer Dale Pierce attended. Film from his archives. Why include it? "Why not," Pierce responded.
Though he has played a psycho repeatedly in BKB horror films, Mr. ??? does not consider hismelf much of an actor and has turned down roles and audition requests from several Ohio film makers. He appears only briefly in this product as he felt it would re-emphasize his image as a peculiar person.
The matador in green and gold, seen in the bullfight clips, is the late bullfighter, Raul Contreras "Finito" from Mexico. Shortly after this footage was shot in 1974, Finito was killed, not by a bull, but in an automobile wreck.
Ileo Martinez, who helped with 8mm to video transfer, wants to do a documengtary on the old Nogales bullring on the Mexican border and also a travel documentary some day on the Mexican bordertown circuit.
Jeff Stoll is a ghosthunters and a major student of the supernatural, who visits haunted houses, takes ghost walks and is a member of varied supernatural study groups.
The idea for Weirdo came after Dale Pierce watched a horrible horror filmc alled Reel Horros, in which a group of actors set about doing a movie while using clips from really horrid horror films in the background. "I wanted to make something even worse than that," he reportedly told some of his coworkers. "I want people to look at this and say 'what is this crap..." when they are done. I want it to be like a train wreck, where you cannot take your eyes off of it. I figured if the fools who did Reel Horrors could make a big profit off of their crap, so could BKB." Pierce also credits inspiration from a really bad EP record his father owned called John & Marsha, which was nothing more than two people blubbering each other 's names, yet became a hit.