Did you hire FX artist Matthew Mungle based on his work on Midnight Meat Train?
Buhler: Yes, I saw the prosthetic work he had done on that film. I think it was when I was on set and I saw a body of Rampage Jackson lying on the ground, I was freaking out because it was so realistic. We gave Matt some interesting stuff to do. They had to build a cat…there’s some trouble with the cat. They’re really good at realistic prosthetic work and blood and guts. When I say that we tried to keep it grounded, that doesn’t mean there’s not a lot of blood. At one point, I was running around with a bucket of fake blood trying to dress the set and I was just smearing it all over the walls. After a while of telling people that we needed more blood, it became evident that I had to show them what I meant. Shock: Out of this orgy of viscera, what did you walk away with now having gone from writer to director? Buhler: I did a lot of research and thinking about the film before this. I talked to a lot of director friends and the one thing I was genuinely surprised about the experience wa
