A HELL OF A HUNT - DJÄVLIGT JAGAD (1995)
A HELL OF A HUNT or the swedish title DJÄVLIGT JAGAD was
written by me and two of my friends, Patrik Söderberg and Roland
Nilsson-Hugo during the period between september 1993 to february 1994.
At that time we were in the army (lumpen) at I21/Fo23 in the little city
Sollefteå. We sat almost every day (18.00-21.00) and wrote on the
story to A HELL OF A HUNT. To simplify the work a little, we had to skip
all the lines the characters were supposed to say. We hoped that we could
improvise when it was time to shoot the scenes. Instead we wrote small
squares (about 4) on the longside of a A4 and below them we wrote the story.
In the squares we draw pictures of how we wanted a scene to be recorded.
The PREMIERE was to be held in Zenit (Örnsköldsviks music house). But
due to some technical problems, I wasn't finished mixing the vocal+sfx audio and
the instrumental audio. I had those on two different media. The vocal+sfx was
on a videotape and the instrumental audio on an ordinary tape. It was also
an incompleted casting list, no logo or trailer on that videotape. I had about
two hours to get that fixed so I was a little nervous but I thought I had
enough time.
After like 30 minutes or so, I noticed that the left audio channel had
a noisy and very low volyme output for some unknown reasons. By then it was
to late to start all over. I didn't want to cancel the premiere so I decided
to bring my own VCR, a porta studio and another tape with the correct
castinglist to Zenit and mix the audio in realtime. When I got there the
audience started to come. I was just finished setting up the equipment and
took the cord to my VCR and pluged it into the outlet. Nothing happend...
My video obviously didn't make it through the transportation. Damned ! I
had a few minutes left, and my friend Anders Westman who was there to see
the film, suggested that we should go to his place and try to repair it. He is
a skilled repairman and he thought that it only was a minor damage, so we took
a car and left. We didn't find the problem in time so we lended an old mono VCR
from a friends friend and started the screening.
Man o man whatta job it was to syncronize the music to the movie. The
music wasn't in the right order or with the right length of pause between
the tunes, so I had to search for the next tune to play when there were
silent parts, and I had to be quick to. But all went well, and the movie
was a success.
Some months later I had the opportunity to show it 3 times on the UNGDOMENS
DAG in the building ARKEN in Örnsköldsvik. It came many people to see it
(About 40-50 people every time). And even later my brother showed it at
PARKSKOLAN (It's a school) 4 times. Some people even skipped classes to
see it. And my brother talked with some one who claimed to have been on all 4
screenings.
The lokal videoshop VIDEO OKEY bought 3 copys of the film and it went
straight up on the top list. It was at 18:th place at the very best, and
it beat films like Schindlers List, The Crow, and True Lies.
HERE ARE SOME STUNNING NEWS: I met 4 people from USA who had
come to Örnsköldsvik to help some guys do a tourist-video. My friend Johan
Larsson showed them my movie. They liked it and wanted some copys of it so that
they could take it back to the States. Then, when I mensioned that my move had
beaten True Lies at the video toplist, one of them said that she knew
the director of True Lies and that she would show him my movie. I almost collapsed when I heared this. What an opportunity... She told me to write him
a letter, wich I did, and she said that she would hand over the letter and my
movie to the director as soon she had the possibility. If I am lucky, I might
get a letter from him with some point of views.
THE STORY
It all begins when 5 campers deside to have a barbacue on the beach
next to their tent. During the eating, one of the campers sees a fire in
the background. They want to investigate and take their boat to the little
island where they had seen the fire. Unfortunately they are beeing spotted
and two of the campers is captured by the savage white dressed people on
the island. The other three manages to escape and decides to get some help.
The help is a military group of 3 persons. Captain Henning, Liutennant
Manning and Corpral Konning. They have a full equipped car (Saab V4) that
also contains weapons wich is lended to the campers by the Special force.
After a short briefing the campers and the Special force team up and
start to search after the two missing friends.
There is a lot of complications and killing on both sides and at the
end there is only two persons left, Conny (a camper) and the leader of
the evil people. The end of the movie is very unpredictable and leave
the viewer with a bit of an askingly look.
You really should see this movie cause it's one of a kind and pretty
good too. Many of the effects are made by me, my brother and my pal
Patrik, whith some help from a Amiga 500 + genlock, Pc, and some explosives
we bought.
This is our logo
If you want to listen to our own produced soundtrack, just klick the
links below. The songs are preformed by P-O Sedin and Johan
Larsson and the files are in mp3 format.
* The theme music (mp3)...
* The song that is played at the end when the rolelist
is scrolling (mp3)...
HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THE MOVIE
This is the cover I made for the movie. It took me and my brother two days
to mix all the photos we've been taken during the shootings. We were allowed
to use the computer at the DAUS TRYCKERI in Örnsköldsvik and work there
after closingtime just to make the cover and the poster. They were really
generous cause they printed out about 500 copys of the covers and posters for
FREE. I mean 500 COPYS..whoa, that's more than enough. I think there's like 200
left.
Click the picture for a larger version.
This is the special force team. They are hired by the victims to help
them get back their friends from the evil people (white dressed).
LEFT: Roland Nilsson-Hugo
CENTER: Stefan Lindström (me)
RIGHT: Mattias Sandström.
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This is the leader of the evil people. He is played by Johan Larsson.
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This is the evil peoples car (Sate mobile).
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This is the wound that I got when a squibb exploded on my stummac.
I had to be operated because a piece of the shell that surrounds the explosive
(in this case "bomullskrut") went straight thru my plastic protection and
into my belly. If you look at the picture closely you may be able to see
the metal piece that I am holding.
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