Tony Gardner and the Alterian crew devised an ingeniously gory effect where a couple engaged in amorous activities both get sawn in half by a chainsaw that rises up from beneath their bed. "I wanted to one-up the arrow coming through Kevin Bacon's neck [as seen in the original Friday the 13th] and see how far we could go with it. And we went and basically sliced a guy and a girl in half with a chainsaw while they're having sex on a bed. With comedy, you can really push stuff. And fortunately for us, Dave and BJ let us go for it," said Gardner. "It's so ridiculously extreme. There's more blood in that scene being sprayed around the room than there would really be in both of their bodies combined. It's just everywhere in the room. It's on the ceiling, it's on the walls, and it's on the floor about an inch deep by the end of the scene." Given keyboardist Rami Jaffee's ease with the lifecasting process, Gardner felt he'd be the perfect band member to perform the effect. "Rami was great. We were like, 'Are you up for a full body [lifecast] and all of the work that this scene will entail?' and he responded with a very enthusiastic 'Yes!' My response to that was, 'Okay, I have this death in mind that we would need somebody to basically be naked for. It'd be very bloody, and incredibly over the top.' And Rami said, 'I'm in.'" The ambitious effect "involved a lot of life casting and a lot of pneumatics and a lot of hoses and a lot of blood. We storyboarded the entire sequence before we even started the lifecasting so that everybody understood what we were doing," said Gardner. To execute the outrageously bloody effect, Rami Jaffee's fake body was built with a jointed fiberglass core on an aluminum and steel armature. Gardner's team cast the core of the body in urethane foam from the base of the neck up inside the head and then everything was surfaced with a silicone skin. Jaffee's fake head was pre-scored by Alterian mechanics Peter Chevako and Erik Beck, who built a pneumatic rig to actuate the splitting and falling apart of the body. The entire process was controlled by a 'switchboard,' and the action could be re-set and repeated over and over. The oversized chainsaw was on a motorized rig of its own, so that all of the chainsaw movement and blood spraying could be properly timed and coordinated. Ralis Kahn built and operated the blood sprayers and canons that went off through the length of the body as the chainsaw traveled through it. "The foundation of Whitney [Cummings'] body was actually a sex doll that Whitney had purchased for one of her comedy routines that she still had lying around and didn't need anymore. Whitney donated her doll body to the cause and we just replaced everything from the collar bone up so that it looked more like her. Her entire head was silicone over an aluminum armature, and it was pre-scored. The head had silicone teeth as well, so that the chainsaw could travel up through the face safely." Before the cameras rolled, the FX crew loaded the Rami & Whitney dummies with chunks of organic-looking debris and two 55-gallon drums connected to the body were filled with blood and then primed. "As the chainsaw went through the body, there were air-cannon explosions of carnage and gore launched up and out of the body in tandem with the non-stop blood spray from the body that was timed to the movement of the giant chainsaw blade through the body," said Gardner. The effect was filmed twice, but "the second time, you couldn't really show the walls of the set on camera because blood was literally already everywhere. We had to wait for the ceiling to stop dripping in order to film take number two."
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