Scream 1996: Scene 114. People Die, People Live

Last Friday I visited the “Scream” house in Tomales Bay. It’s really the Spring Hill Mansion where a lot of scenes from the original Scream 1996 was filmed.

I worked on the movie as a stand-in for Neve Campbell and it amazes me how Scream is the gift that keeps on giving. One thing perplexes me though, and I am hoping a Scream fanatic out there can help me solve a mystery.

I know there is a photo circulating of a person wearing a t-shirt that says, “I Survived Scene 118” and people say it’s because it was the most grueling scene to film during production, but according to my call sheets and sides, Scene 114 – “People Die, People Live” was the long one.

114 Complete – FINALLY!!

And the final scene is Scene 115 of Gale reporting the news the morning after the murders. Roll credits. There is no Scene 118.

So, I’m confused. Any Scream fans that are reading this, can you help me with this one? What is Scene 118??

October Filmmaking

I just finished working on a feature film this past weekend in Woodside, California. It’s an ultra-low budget film so we were flying by the seat of our pants, guerilla filmmaking, if you will.

It’s a comedic horror movie written by my good friend Tony Gapastione:

Who is also a fan of the Scream franchise:

Speaking of Scream….

The Spring Hill Estate Mansion, the location of many scenes in the movie “Scream” is currently giving tours of the mansion as well as other filming locations.

My friend Jeff and I in the garage of the location a few years ago.

Did I mention I worked on this movie back in 1996 as Neve Campbell’s stand in? We didn’t have smart phones then, so there is little photographic evidence, ha ha. But someone posted this pic online a few months ago:

It was at least a month of night shoots and that’s where I learned how to drink coffee. We made ourselves “white trash mochas” by putting hot chocolate packets in our coffee while staying warm in the craft service truck. It was soooo cold in Tomales!

And our call sheets said, “Scary Movie” until they had to change it to “Scream” over halfway through filming because another movie had the rights to the title. But then I don’t know what ever happened to that film because it never came out but then the title was used later on as a spoof of the Scream franchise, so it all worked out.

Happy Fall, y’all!

Three Scripts!

I am currently working with three scripts right now. One of them is for a reading of a friend’s feature film “Baile”. GET TICKETS HERE. Sale ends tomorrow, 5/7/25.

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Another script I am starting to memorize is for a short film my friend Tony wrote, which will start filming next week:

And then there’s the script I am currently writing for my one-woman-show, “All the Great New Things to Come”. I will be performing a 20-minute excerpt of it at the Marsh Theatre in San Francisco on June 9th and June 23rd. Get TICKETS HERE.

And in family tree news, as I continue to research the descendants of this mysterious woman that my Great Grandma Katie called “Grandma Ellen” (but really wasn’t her grandma, but her father’s cousin supposedly), I came across this headline:

A half-breeds victim? Were these the good ol’ days? With headlines like this?

It says that a man who was “half-Indian” named Dick Edwards killed a white man named Patrick Spillane. Patrick Spillane might be a descendant of “Grandma Ellen”, so this article popped up during my research.

May newspapers never go back to calling people “half-breeds” ever again.

Tuesday, May 6, 2025:

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