Next came the casting auditions, and while the original script called for a male neighbor, no one exactly fit what Moosie and Megan were looking for. Moosie had a connection with Dee Wallace ("E.T.", "Cujo") and after some discussions, it turned out that the filming dates worked with her schedule, and things started quickly falling into place, including finding a great cinematographer in Gareth Taylor.
Filming took place the third week of January over a couple of nights in freezing conditions. One portion of the filming was shot on a rural stretch of road outside of L.A. The second night of shooting took place in a neighborhood in suburban L.A.. A couple of callbacks and pick up shots later, everything was in the can and ready for editing.
Editing is now essentially complete and the film is ready to be submitted to several film festivals, where we're hoping for great success. This is just the first step for several of us in making our name in the film industry, and we hope that you'll be along for the ride as we grow from this point! Thanks fas well for your support on the film's GoFundMe page! You don't know how much we appreciate it!
Gary Howell
Screenwriter, "Country Road 12"
About the film
“Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I’d say that film is the sculpting of time.”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
"Country Road 12" (formerly titled "Roadside Attraction") started as all films do: with an idea. For several years I had been writing short films scripts and posting them on a script hosting site known as Simply Scripts. Besides having a great number of fellow writers who help critique your work, there are regular contests that are held where on Friday at midnight, a theme is given out on the site, and you have one week to prepare and post a script that adheres to that theme. "County Road 12" is a product of one of these contests.
The theme was urban myths, and you had to write a fresh take on an urban myth of your choosing. I won't reveal what I wrote prior to you seeing the film (hopefully it will be posted on this site soon), because I don't want to spoil it for you, but rest assured my version carried the urban myth to a weird and terrifying new conclusion.
This contest took place in February of 2015, and I actually had a few people contact me with a desire to film the script, but nothing was really panning out, and then in December I was asked to option the script again by Megan Griffey, who found the script on the Simply Scripts website. This time it turned out to be the real deal. Megan knew the director Moosie Drier, one thing led to another, and soon they were scouting locations for the film.