Was Molly Bryants Nurse Henderson kind of the Nurse Ratched of this movie?
Jeff Buhler: (Laughs) Yes. Yeah, there’s a lot of little things. I tried to embed a little bit of trivia in the movie that genre fans will pick up on. The crazy guy who ends up in the cage, his name is Loomis, which is a reference to Halloween, the brother and sister’s last name is Romero, which is a reference to the zombie flicks. We’ve got Jack, which is a reference to Jack Nicholson’s portrayal of McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. There’s lots of little references in there that are meant to tip our audience off that we understand that this isn’t blazing new territory. We’re playing in a sandbox that’s had a lot of great movies done in it before and we wanted to play with those conventions and have a little fun with it. This is your feature writing and directing debut. What was it like stepping onto the set for that first day? Jeff Buhler: A little terrifying (Laughs), to be honest with you. I’d had some success as a screenwriter, which allowed me to get this one set up an
