Castro's film The Summer of Massacre featured a total of 155 dead bodies during its 98-minute runtime. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX horror HorrorCommunity horrormovie Halloween gore
The Summer of MassacreWhen special effects makeup master and San Antonio native Joe Castro started pre-production for his horror anthology filmin 2010, he wanted to do something that would make an impact on the micro-budget slasher genre.
And Castro, a 1988 graduate of John Marshall High School now based in LA, has held that record since 2011., Castro talked about what led him to make a movie with so many deaths, his favorite kill in the movie and his plans for the spooky season.Joe Castro and husband Steven Escobar show off their Guiness certificate.
I went to a convention in the UK, and that's where the Guinness Book of World Records home offices are. Maybe it was the universe talking to me, but I was like,"I want to set a world record!" So, I bought the book and my producer [husband Steven Escobar] figured we could set the record for the highest body count. Even before I wrote the screenplay, I knew that's what I wanted. So, as I was writing the screenplay, I was devising the sequences where I could kill a lot of people.
I would say 75% of them are CGI effects, but we shot almost all of them practical first. Then, I went in and enhanced them digitally.There's a couple of them. One of them is a man who gets burnt in a fire pit. He gets rolled over and half of his head has been burnt away. It looks like charcoal briquettes when they're cooking. The inside of his head is smoldering.