Day 21

Hi, we have definitely entered the showdown. Technically everything is going well. It is pretty clear that Borrelli and his Team have created a Cult Movie. We have amazing footage , the acting is superb - it looks fantastic!!! But, ... the box of shadows is becoming very powerful. We had our second animal scene last night. Remember Mauro's dog almost being killed by the killer dogs from hell. And than we had ants attacking Naomi . It is pretty clear that animals have another sense and they can tell that something powerful is present. We had a goldfish scene to shoot and the goldfish was fine until we brought in the box of shadows. First he started swimming really fast and frantic but than he started swimming backwards and finally jumping out of the bowl. We have it all on film - it was the craziest thing. We might end up using the real panic footage from our little goldfish - which is by now in a special treatment center in Los Angeles. Looks like early retirement too me. While the goldfish went crazy we of course had all our UFO's up in the sky and of course most of our car batteries dying again. Really, yesterday it seemed like that the box of shadows was super unhappy. We have gotten to a point that we try as much as we can to shoot around the evil entrapment machine. At one point Mauro had the coffin put outside, away from location to have things go smoother - and to start a couple of cars! On top of it we had another PA disappear. PA Mike is now gone too. PA Frank is stilled missed (were ever he is???) We have three more days to shoot and everybody is getting worried. I'll be back on set tonight and report back to you guys. Wish me luck... h