Halloween has passed, but Thanksgiving isn't here yet, and as Brett Piper reports, the low budget monster movie production MUCKMAN soldiers on:

"We shot again last weekend. It was a good news/bad news situation. Bad news first: we had intended to finish all of principal photography by Monday but Ian and Jared, our replacements for the infamous Barker Brothers (as they shall be known until I get spiteful and mention their real names) were unable to make it up from Delaware due to car trouble. I have no idea when (or even if) they'll be available again. One of them is due to enter the Air Force soon and that will be that as far as he's concerned. We may find ourselves rewriting the script to work around the remaining scenes we needed them for. Such are the vicissitudes of low-budget (make that no-budget) film-making (make that digital movie making).

"The good news is that we did manage to shoot all of Anju McIntyre's remaining scenes (we also got to see her photo spread in the current Penthouse. You should check it out). It was all night shooting so we made the five hour drive to NYC (make that Jersey City) Saturday morning, drove back with her and shot until 4 a.m., and I must say things couldn't have gone better. Well, they could ave gone a little better --- Bob Denis, who plays one of my two favorite inbred yokels in the movie, was too ill to make the shoot so we had to work around his absence, but that was a minor annoyance. To us anyway. I hope Bob feels better. And check out Anju in Penthouse! (September '09)

"Since then we managed to get Bob Denis back and shot all the remaining footage of him and Mark Polonia as the Scragg Boys, Horace and Elmer. We've also picked up much of the remaining material, in bits and pieces, including an entire night spent doing nothing but various shots of the Muckman himself, so that now almost all of principal photography has been completed except for Ian and Jared's remaining scenes. We were supposed to get them a week or so ago but, alas, more car trouble prevented us. With any luck at all the boys will be joining us next week and we'll finally put this sucker to bed. We'll see." (November '09)