THE FILMING OF MATT SHAW’S NEW HORROR, GPK

the filming of Matt Shaw’s new horror, GPK

21/6/2022

“Mike’s arse gushes blood” - the filming of Matt Shaw’s new horror, GPK:

I write horror for a living. Over 300 publications, in fact. My imagination is a dark place. Just when I think I can’t have any thoughts blacker than the last, something else comes into my life and I realise - things can always be worse. The weekend just gone also showed me that, sometimes, other people and their actions can trouble my mind.

Justin Park and I (Matt Shaw) make up Purgatory Pictures LTD. Whilst killing time ahead of our feature film next year, Justin said we should do a found footage film because it will be “quick” and “easy”. On paper he is right but in reality, he was very wrong. Unfortunately this was only realised once we started shooting but - that’s another, far less interesting story.

Last Saturday we had a number of people descend to my house. I had covered a room in plastic sheets (much like a kill-room from Dexter) and we were ready to film a few gore scenes for the found footage film Justin and I set our minds to: GPK.

To give quick insight, GPK is a feature film found footage film which follows a successful applicant to the GPK show. (GPK = Go Pro Killers). The company itself offers applicants the opportunity to come to one of the company’s Kill-Rooms so as to kill a person of their choosing. All the show “asks” is that applicants wear a Go-Pro camera whilst they perform their kill and, a camera is also put on the victim. A third camera hangs from the ceiling and a free-moving cameraman comes in the room too - so all angles of the kill are covered. The company then streams the films to the paying viewers, watching from the Dark Web. There is a lot more to the story than that but - that is it in a nutshell. Think Hostel, crossed with Maniac, mixed with Starship Troopers and you’re close… Kind of.

Anyway - Saturday.

During the film, various adverts come up asking who YOU would kill. These adverts are made up of my readers, and people who’ve pledged to appear in the film via the Kickstarter campaign. In one such advert, a lady describes how she would like to kill her ex with a “big, fuck off strap-on. Covered in razors.” It is this scene that we’re here to film. Kitty Kay is our model and Mike Butler is the poor ex. Both are fine with nudity and both are fine with the content so - we’re all soon in position having done a quick “dry run” with them both fully clothed. All good and the clothes are stripped off and Mike is bent over the horse, spread for the world to see. My eyes are already burning through. Kitty is behind him - poor girl - and has the strap-on in position. The toy itself wrapped in barb-wire. She moves into position and nudges the tip against a surprisingly clenched Mike. We pause the action so as to cover his arse in blood, along with the toy. But it’s still missing something. I call out to Louis and tell him we need the mince meat from my fridge. The idea being that the mince itself looks like tatters of flesh. Some are put on the toy and…. And this is where my life changed forever… Some more is put…. Well, Mike grabbed a handful and he’s feeding it up his arse so that it looks like his arsehole is hanging in tatters. I can’t say it looked good but it did look effective at least…

Kitty put the Go-Pro on her head and filmed looking down to the toy so, in the shot we have her breasts, the toy and Mike’s arse. A Killer POV shot, which is the idea behind the film; we’re putting the audience in the position of being both killer and victim. With the shot done, we geared up for the second one… I wanted to see blood gushing out of Mike’s arse. So… We got the syringe with the long tube… Mike fed the tube through and… Action. Kitty pulls away and “wanks” her toy off to get rid of the meat and blood while, at the top of the shot, Mike’s arse gushes blood.

For the rest of the weekend, whenever I shut my eye’s, all I saw was Mike’s arse. The scary thing was, this was the first shot of the day. We still had to “snap” his erect penis off and have the stump ejaculate 500ml of blood straight into Kitty’s face. It was going to be a long day… But… For the sake of the film, it was entirely worth it! The scary thing is; this is the opening of the film. We have naked people, butt’s exploding claret, cocks being snapped off, tongues ripped off, labia ripped away, teeth pulled and a whole host of other disgusting scenes and - worryingly - we keep adding to them!!!

You can learn more about GPK here, along with various ways to appear in the film too:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegpk/gpk-a-feature-length-horror-film