Demon Knight and Bordello of Blood documentaries

Feb 22, 2017 22:47:19 GMT -8 Crypt Keeper said:

Seems like he was a nightmare to work with on BOB.

That's putting it mildly. lol.

Corey Feldman has talked more in detail about the nightmare of working with Dennis Miller:

"Dennis Miller was the biggest dick I've ever worked with in the history of my career. He was terrible to the crew, treated people like shit, very disrespectful, very snobby. People would say "good morning" to him, and he would just ignore them or walk past them and grunt or something. He was just very rude. Actually, we got in a fight because of the way he was treating people; I couldn't stand to watch it. When I'm on a set, I feel like we're all there together, we're a team, we're there working as a family, and no one person is higher than another. They always do the star trip, like, "This star's got the bigger trailer, that star's got more assistants," or whatever, but to me that's all just a bunch of ego bullshit, and I don't buy into it. I don't play that whole game. For me, as long as I've got nice quarters to relax in between shots... We're all there to work, so it's a dig-in-and-put-your-nose-to-the-grindstone kind of thing. And Dennis Miller was the opposite of that.

He literally was not only just rude and disrespectful to everybody, but he was doing crazy things like... I remember one day he stole a van from the transportation department in Vancouver and just decided to take off and drive around because he didn't feel like being on the set anymore. Now, anybody who knows anything about the movie industry knows, "Don't fuck with the Teamsters." You can do anything you want, but don't fuck with the Teamsters. And that's exactly what he did. I could go on and on about it, but the bottom line is that I was a huge fan of Dennis Miller's when I took that project on, I was very excited about the opportunity to work with him, and it was really my first lesson in learning that it's sometimes best to leave people on the screen. When you get to meet them and get to know them and find out who they really are, it's very disheartening. Dennis Miller was definitely my slap in the face to that cold, hard reality.

The other thing was that when he went out there to promote the film, he didn't even do good by the promotion. He literally went on the late-night talk shows and said, "Don't go see this film, because it sucks!" I mean, he killed the box office singlehandedly. But the movie itself I actually really enjoyed. I thought that Angie (Everhart) was great, Erika Eleniak was great, Chris Sarandon was great. There were a lot of great actors, which definitely gave it the support that Dennis was lacking. And the film overall, the writing, the direction... Gilbert Adler did a great job directing it. I thought it was very funny. I love the Tales From The Crypt franchise because, again, it's the comedy-horror thing which I think works so well. I really enjoyed doing the episodic version, the television series. And I think I would've had a lot more fun doing that film if anybody else was playing the lead role."

Two stories about Miller from the Bordello Blu-ray commentary:

-A.L. Katz talks about Miller and Feldman almost getting into a fight while shooting the power plant chase and the crew not jumping in right away since they were secretly happy someone got in Miller's face since he was making the shoot difficult.  Miller is the kind of guy who likes to push people's buttons and was doing so to Feldman on this particular day even though he shouldn't have.  (I know though Feldman has said he almost got into a fight with Miller due to his mistreatment of the cast/crew)

-The scene where Miller jumps down at Angie Everhart and buries the ax into her shoulder was a difficult day for writer/producer A.L Katz due to Miller. Miller, as he frequently did on the shoot, sent his assistant to Katz and asked to be shot out since he was tired and so he could leave the set early. Due to the camera angles and special effects needed for this sequence, Katz couldn't allow Miller to be shot out and leave the set early this time. Miller's assistant told Katz that Miller would be upset about this and Katz apologized and said that he couldn't allow Miller to leave early. So Miller's assistant goes back to his trailer and tells him the news and he has a fit.

Coincidentally, producer Joel Silver visited the set that day and paid a visit to Miller's trailer to visit with him. Miller told Silver how he was tired and that Katz wouldn't let him leave early. Silver then said he would take care of it and let Miller be dismissed for the day. Silver goes to the set and has a stern talk with Katz in front of the crew about how he is supposed to take care of his stars on set. Then Silver goes on to tell him a story on a music video shoot involving Michael Jackson and a crew member. On set, the rule is you're not allowed to talk to the celebrity if you're part of the crew. One day, Michael noticed a crew member with a broken arm in a cast and asked him about it. Even though Michael talked to the crew member instead of the other way around, the crew member was fired for just talking to Michael. So the next day after the dismissal, Michael wore a cast on his arm in solidarity for the dismissed crew member. Basically, this whole story was a lesson in for Katz on speaking up when he should have to protect the film and how he was mistaken for mistreating a cast member even though he did nothing wrong.