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From The Trenches: The Serial Killer

10/28/2013

by Matthew Howe

They say that in the film business you get to go to all sorts of places and meet all sorts of people. This is true, because I got to meet Donald Harvey.

Donald Harvey’s killing spree came to an end in 1987. It was a fluke, one of those dumbass coincidences that all too often seem to do the job DNA testing and black-lights can’t.

Donald had poured cyanide into the feeding tube of a near-comatose patient who’d suffered massive brain injuries in a motorcycle accident. Ohio law dictates that anyone dying as a result of a traffic accident requires an autopsy.

From The Trenches: Ed Warren Blows a Gasket.

9/2/2013

By Matthew Howe

James Wan's The Conjuring deeply divided audiences. People seemed to either hate it with a searing passion or love it with ours goes to eleven intensity.

I loved it. Not only because I found it scary as hell, but also because I once worked with Ed and Lorraine Warren, real paranormal investigators who are the film's main characters. Not only did I work with them, I came very close to getting beaten up by them.

This happened during my work as cinematographer on a reality show called Real Scary Stories. In the show, we took teenagers to haunted locations then did our best to scare the living hell out of them.

From The Trenches: The Five Second Nightmare

8/26/2013

By Matthew Howe

One and a quarter million people have been shot with a Taser. I’m one of them. Here’s how it happened:

I’m working for a (short-lived) National Geographic Channel show called Factory Floor with Marshall Brain. The show profiles how things are made. In fact, whenever I tell people what I’m doing, they think I’m working on the very successful Discovery Channel show How It’s Made. I then have to deliver the bad news that I’m working on the show they’ve never heard of and probably will never see. For this particular episode, we’re in Phoenix, Arizona immortalizing the manufacture of tennis balls and Tasers. Because, like all shows I seem to work on, we don’t have any money, we have to get each factory done in a day.

From The Trenches: The Serial Killer

From The Trenches: Ed Warren Blows a Gasket.

From The Trenches: The Five Second Nightmare

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