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Horror film being made in Picher draws scrutiny

By WALLY KENNEDY The Joplin Globe
Published: 11/1/2009 2:40 AM
Last Modified: 11/2/2009 10:00 AM

PICHER — One of the nation's most toxic sites has been used as the cinematic backdrop for a hard-core horror flick by two independent film producers.

Production was halted this week on "Bad Girls Burn in Hell" when word began circulating about the film.

On Thursday, Gary Linderman, who operates the Ole Miner's Pharmacy in Picher, drove by the house west of Picher's high school where part of the movie was filmed.

"This is astounding," he said. "The people I have talked to are simply bewildered."

Linderman said he had a friend check out the production company's Web site, deathfactoryinc.com. The site features bloody images of unclothed women, torture and mutilation. In one scene, someone is tightening barbed wire around a man's face. In another, a woman is attacked with a circular saw.

Becky Baird, an assistant to Ottawa County District Attorney Eddie Wyant, on Friday said the district attorney's office was aware that a movie was being filmed in Picher, but that it had been described to them as a horror film.

Baird said it is illegal in Oklahoma to manufacture porn, "but the test — the question is — is it obscene?"

Representatives of the production company, headed by Joe Hollow and Travis Miller, could not be reached for comment.

But Todd Ingold, a Miami resident, was contacted at the house on Thursday. Ingold said he was taking care of security at the site.

"This is a B horror

movie. It's not soft porn," he said. "We had permission -- a contract -- to use this house and the house next door, and a church over there. This is a legitimate film. But some people around here believe that it's porn." By WALLY KENNEDY The Joplin Globe

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	Report Comment Few Clothes, America (11/1/2009 8:19:40 AM) Hopefully it will bring in some revenue to Pitcher.
	Report Comment bubblegum, PUSIVILLE (11/1/2009 10:55:08 AM) The all 9praise the Fake HORROR FILM,(AND they receive real money for their 9Made up ) story. But when the Fake story comes alive and Does to Picher what the film Portrade, then everyone will be (CRYING) and asking (WHY) likw monica LOUWINSKIE----MORONS
	Report Comment oldrustytulsa, Tulsa (11/1/2009 4:09:32 PM) Now Who ownes the property,? seems like it was covered UP for some reason, Who is the Owner of all that Property Around the Town that was Condemned anyway,? Property deeds got to be in somebodys name.
	Report Comment HowlinWoof, (11/2/2009 12:24:14 PM) i think the only word bubblegum spelled right is moron. wow.
	Report Comment SS_Hippy, Tulsa (11/2/2009 2:59:22 PM) wow..what's in your bubblegum dude?

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