What are some horrible experiences you've had while filming in a movie???

For me, this was around October 2007 when this happened, mind you before the L.A. and San Diego fires we had in California.

...First day of filming the movie it was raining. Drinks were not allowed on set but a girl brought coffee then spilled it on the extension cords, it took about an hour to cleanup her mess, an hour later after that she left the set without telling anyone, and for the rest of the shooting of the film she never showed up. One of the scenes we did was on a Saturday, there was an "evil magician" that was having a garage sale selling creepy things, except that the real people passing by on the street thought it was a real garage sale and kept coming up and ruining the shots. On another day we were nearly done shooting the entire film, when our main actor couldn't come to set because of a fire in Malibu beach (The First day of the L.A. and San Diego Fires). On the very last day of shooting, the cameraman didn't record 6 hours of footage and never told anyone, we kept asking to see the footage but he made up excuses, we found out the hard way while taking footage off the camera to Final Cut Pro, so we had to film all of that footage again the next day during finals.


Luckily we managed to get the film done. The actor was able to finish the movie with us. Probably the worst film experience I've had (So far).

went to film school at community college and took a directing class. teacher only allowed one take. one student had a dv camera- a good one. most students got to use it but he was out when i shot my film. i used a camcorder. all i had cause i was poor. i was doing a scene from dead poets society - very hard to find actors who will work for free, commit and meet your needs. I ended up making neil's parents a gay couple which i thought was cool. one of my actors was deaf and sounded deaf. he's a professional.get what u can. better than not being able to shoot and fail the project. voted one of the worst film in class along with the films of most students who also got voted worst film also- stupid kids any way. school was a flake and so was the teacher. so i quit and went in another direction.

A movie we were shooting was about two friends who decide to rob a convenience store as a means of spicing up their lives. The shoot involved using a fake gun (it was a bebe gun). The Store owner was obviously aware of what we were doing and was fine with it, but the neighboring homes were not aware. The shot entailed one of the guys jumping into a car and the car speeding off with the camera inside the car. So each take we would drive around the block. One particular time we returned to the convenience store to find 4 sheriff cars waiting for us, the officers with their guns drawn charged the car. One of the cops held his gun sideways. Our main actor had the gun so he got the brunt of the guns pointed right in his face. When they realized what was going on they kind of laughed about it and told us to inform the local police next time.

We never finished that film.

I don't think I've had really any bad experiences making any film. Other than during the first day of production on "Blow Job" my brother and his friend accused an actor of mine of stealing $60.00. It blew up in my face because I was trying to protect the actress and made the night horrible. I suspended filming after that.

But I'm kind've glad because after watching the film I really want to re-do it because the actors are slightly uncomfortable with eachother.

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A movie we were shooting was about two friends who decide to rob a convenience store as a means of spicing up their lives. The shoot involved using a fake gun (it was a bebe gun). The Store owner was obviously aware of what we were doing and was fine with it, but the neighboring homes were not aware. The shot entailed one of the guys jumping into a car and the car speeding off with the camera inside the car. So each take we would drive around the block. One particular time we returned to the convenience store to find 4 sheriff cars waiting for us, the officers with their guns drawn charged the car. One of the cops held his gun sideways. Our main actor had the gun so he got the brunt of the guns pointed right in his face. When they realized what was going on they kind of laughed about it and told us to inform the local police next time.

We never finished that film.

HAHAHHAHAH LMAO!

lmfao that is a ****ing classic.

why didnt you finish making the movie?

Hahaha! As soon as the police understood what was going on, I totally would have improvised the script and asked the cops if they wanted to be in a the scene.


I can't say I've had any truly horrible film experiences of my own, but one time I sliced my index finger halfway off with a knife while acting during a take of a scene in a barn. I tried to finish my monologue and ignore my dripping finger...I was like "Come on guys! We have to finish this scene" and everyone else was like "Man, you are about to pass out!" I insisted on doing my last shot (with my hand out of the frame) and actually made it through the whole thing. Then I walked back to our base house and blacked out

One time I was working on a little production at film school and we came to the last scene only to realize that we were not recording sound for some reason. The camera mic settings combined with the mixer xlr's were not working so we had to shoot the whole thing over in 45 minutes (after spending about 5 hours on it) needless to say we killed it and the finished product looked better than the stuff we shot before. No idea what was up with that

A few years back I had a Directing Class project where we shot the interior scenes a week apart from exteriors. The main actor was a buddy of mine and forgot he was "acting" and shaved his head in between shots. He went from super curly hair to f-ing bald.

I put a shizzy hat on him and tried to remember my friendship was more important than a student film which had probably the single worst continuity error of my schools history.

And recently we had postpone shooting as one of my main actors got in a bar fight and his face got beaten to a pulp! I wanted to write it in as it looked so horrible but he wouldn't go for it.