Show £1 (fr fm ( Hollywood Style wpy g '’ “V" v' Rxl cs4 I o 1 fer ' i£b Q i i' Above writer and producer James Gllck enhaus Is pictured in side the ark where a fight is about to take place The bottles hanging are breakaway bottles to make noise during the scuffle Left is a sound crewman preparing the mikes to be used ft Camera crews had to be ready for all kinds lighting and special effects filming In the mine shafts in Redmond of 71 3 3 1 M: AT 7 7 i 'rum Above is a construction set worker putting the final designs on the ark He is wearing a mask because of the smoke that is in the air to give this segment Of the movie an hazy scary look There in the deep dark caverns of a salt mine an ark is built and a murderer is determined a fight pursues the ark moves towards the doors and that’s all The five to 10 minute segment of the upcoming movie “Slaughter of the Innocents” is done and the crews and stars will move on to a new location to finish the movie What does this have to do with us? The deep dark cavern segment was filmed in our own Redmond Clay and Salt mines the old Albert Poulson Mine to be exact The mine is still used by Redmond Clay and Salt but they were able to shut this segment down the filming schedule of the movie for the past thirty days to accommodate There has been a construction crew on location and milling around the streets of Salina for the past thirty days They had to fill in the floor of the mine about 15 feet which still left another 50 or so feet to construct an huge ark on two rail tracks For the past 70 people have been on location readying for the actual filming which took place this past week two weeks approximately In the cavern there was a room built to show the work place for the murderer in the movie If you don’t have a strong stomach for horror blood and guts then this is not the place for your next vacation Even the ark is full of plastic bodies or at least parts of these bodies that set a scene of blood and carnage as the murderers hideout the murder of two small girls “Slaughter of the Innocents” begins with what appears to be a random senseless and brutal crime left alone in their house for a few minutes while their mother went to the store Because of the savage nature of the murders the local police turn to Special Agent Stephen Broderick (played by actor Scott Glenn) of the FBI for assistance of the children’s murder Stephen’s While Stephen and his new partner Agent Roxanne Lemar are working on the investigation son Jesse (Scott Glenn’s real life son) is at home working on his computer comparing the murders to similar crimes committed over the past 15 years Finally he comes across a point of similarity and what follows is one of the most massive manhunts in FBI history of the cult now hidden away in Clues are discovered and lead Stephen and the FBI to a satanic cult and then to an the mountains of Utah While Broderick and Lemar are following this false lead in the mountains in Utah Jesse uncovers more clues that lead him to the SaltLake City Zoo where he learns the real identity of the serial killer and his hiding place in the badlands of Utah Unable to contact at Castle Rock now being filmed near his father Jesse sets out on his own to track down the killer When he arrives at his hide-o- least In this segment of the movie there is a lot of blood and gore and of At course I vBV'f- - the main reason It is going to be rated R A W7 7 '‘(UK I f ' “V L ! Moab Utah Jesse is this time able to give Stephen his coordinates Jessee Stephen rushes to his son while the FBI calls in the National Guard and its own special helicopter assault team Meanwhile has been captured along with a young girl in a terrifying mountain cave where the murderer Mordecai Booth lives In the cave Mordccai has transformed the deranged vision in his head into a grisly replica of the Biblical Ark He has gathered the species by two He has gathered his family and he is waiting for the storm of 40 days and 40 nights climax (to say the least) Stephen fights against all odds to save his son and the young girl from the grasp of In a And as the FBI assault team arrives Mordecai and his Ark are launched off the edge of Castle Rock into the demented Mordecai the red rock valley thousands of feet below The cave scene was filmed at the Redmond location that not only does Utah have some Film producer Frank K Isaac said that he is very happy to be here in Utah He commented excellent creative geology such as the mines in Redmond and the Red Castle rocks near Moab the filming crews available in Utah are very talented He also felt the cooperation and assistance from the Governor’s office on down has been great They have filmed segments in the streets of Salt Lake City Hogle Zoo the prison at the point of the mountain and other locations Most of the crew But rural settings have rewards for the film and construction crews as well as being good for the local economy members were sporting around in new boots hats and dusters (they bought all that Bum’s Saddlery had but one) that they purchased at “a very interesting store” called Burn’s Saddlery They also helped to fill two motels and ate at all the restaurants in town “It’s nice to come into a small town and meet friendly people that are interested in what we are doing” said Issac McBain The movie was written and directed by James Glickenhaus who has written and produced such movies as Shakedown The Protector and the Soldier He too was appreciative of the people in Utah their beautiful state and the hard The Exterminator working talented people here He explained that as films produced place for making movies — — — in Utah become successful Nr— directors talk and the word will get around that Utah is a good Jf ' V |