MikeVega

it was filmed for the movie zero day .. in fact it was filmed not far from where i live

There were ultimately about 20-30 days of shooting between July 4th and October 10th 2001. For most of them, the big unknown was, 'Where the hell am I going to shoot the massacre?' Every high school in Connecticut had turned me down - even for exteriors. At the last minute in late August, I secured SUNY Purchase in New York State to do the shooting spree. We shot for just one day - it was all I could afford. We did most of the scenes in order, and the massacre was one of the last scenes I did with Andre and Cal - although we ended up doing two or three key earlier moments afterward. We even ended up stealing some exteriors at the high school in my town - this big, fortress like thing that looks a like a prison with a charming cupola on top. I had always wanted to use it from the start, but had been turned down right off the bat by a very nervous superintendent.

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