Shoot it Up....

The Shoot is always the most intense period of activity, and shooting in the Winter in England with little daylight for exteriors and cold weather added to the challenge.
It was a hard shoot - very physical, very cold and with special effects work that would leave a lot of people sticky with 'Pro-Blood.' People often ask Eileen Daly, who plays the lead Lilith Silver, whether she actually drinks blood, we're not sure what she gets up to on her own, but on the set she was addicted to the stuff! Jake remarks, "She was phenomenal, I don't think there are many actresses out there who could have pulled this off - the mixture of hard physical action scenes that range from gunplay to samurai sword fights, intermingled with erotic seduction scenes, serious scenes and off the wall humour, required immense dedication and range - especially when your shooting completely out of sequence in adverse conditions."

Eileen remembers: "I was working so hard doing kick-boxing, shooting and running around that I started to sweat. And the sweat contained in the rubber cat-suit would turn cold, so I had this icy cold sweat swishing against my body. Ughhh! I've never been so cold in my life. In the end I had to wear thermal underwear under the costume and everyone started calling it 'the fatsuit!' - I hope it doesn't show on the film!" When speaking about her character, Eileen is very enthusiastic, "Lilith isn't your usual vampire. She's sexy in a girl power way - she fights better than any man, has a heart of steel and takes nothing from anyone. She's a warrior, a millennium chick, a woman of the world. She makes her living a hard way, a modern day Nikita who's had to learn to survive. She didn't originally choose to be a Vampire, but she's certainly chosen a profession that suits her - an assassin for hire. Lilith psychologically is half male and half female, she has dual appeal. Men can see the female side: she's sexy, but deadly - the classic femme fatale; whereas women will recognize that untamed female sexuality and themselves be attracted to her as a woman who can deal with any situation. To put it in a nutshell - Lilith Silver Rocks!"

The film was shot entirely on location around London, Kent and Buckinghamshire, and the production worked in spectacular locations from bustling night-time London; a theme restaurant/club "Transylvania;" a couple of mansions and their grounds; some weird and spectacular rock formations and even in forest terrain.

We covered a hell of a lot of mileage for a shoot that only lasted 23 days! We had our transport van totaled by a hit and run driver one night....there was this huge bang and we looked out the window to see our van smashed to shit with another car rammed up the back of it, then the guy driving (sic) the crashed car gets out and legs it! Then, while shooting a section at my parents house who were in the middle of selling the property - so they're like showing people around 'here's the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom....er ah lesbian Vampire seduction scene...er um well my son is making this er film!
But whatever the hassles, it was worth it. Audiences will see a side of England they rarely see on celluloid. Plus I'm fed up with the British looking like the most socially repressed nation in the world - it's time we regained a sense of cool sophistication - look at the impact the original Bond movies had in the 60's - the U.K. was the style capital of the world. Hopefully, that could one day be the same again. So, if you like Vampires, fetish gear, outrageous set pieces, sex, shoot-outs and blood sucking, here's a film that doesn't hold back.

By the end of the shoot, the crew looked like the undead, "with an average of 5 hours sleep for over 3 weeks you get very cranky, manky and extremely smelly. We're lucky that everyone got on, we really hit it off. This style of filmmaking - really got people into a good groove. We were flying through setups and the actors remained focused without having to shoot multiple takes."

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