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KENOSHA -
A Kenosha filmmaker with 32 documentary films under his belt is trying to jump into feature films with a horror picture that will debut here soon.
Local independent filmmaker Mark Gumbinger will hold the premier showing of "Mortuary Girls," shot entirely in Southeastern Wisconsin, at the Brat Stop here on May 2. Gumbinger chose that date because there will be a full moon that night to accompany the on-screen mayhem and murders.
"It's tough to break into Hollywood films," Gumbinger, 46, said Wednesday. But horror films and their devoted cult following lend themselves to making that leap.
"I've always wanted to do it, and the timing was right," he said. The plot came to him in 1990, but the technology then would probably have required him to shoot on 16 mm film. "It would have probably cost 10 times more," he said.
"Mortuary Girls" falls into the film cost category of "ultra-low budget" at less than $175,000, Gumbinger said, although it's hard to calculate an exact cost. For example, he worked for nothing for more than a year, passing on the chance to make the Great Lakes, lighthouse and shipwreck documentaries he usually produces.
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