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but you have to wade

across a stream

to get over there."

So Vince'd say, "Ah, I'll

build a little bridge."

And Goddammit,

with his own hands

he built this

little wooden bridge

that you could actually

drive a car over.

Oh, the demolition crew!

Vince's brother, Reg, and he had

a partner named Tony Pantonello.

They used to do fireworks.

They were not the Zambelli's

but, you know,

if you needed some fireworks

down at your church

you called these guys.

They did all

the pyrotechnical stuff

and they were hilarious guys,

I mean, you know.

Tony would have this cigar

constantly burning in his mouth

and he's working

putting a fuse together

and he couldn't see very well,

so he's like this

and this cigar and I'm like,

"Tony, you're gonna

blow your fingers off!"

They did all the squibs.

Squibwork and the explosives,

and all that.

Actor, lighting person,

and investor Bill Hinzman

and John Russo both volunteer

to be set on fire.

Given no protective clothing

they simply agree

to roll on the grass

if they get hot.

I think maybe that

was Reg's suggestion.

"It starts to feel hot,

just lie down."

"Want anything from

the supply wagon, Kuss?"

No, we're alright.

Hey, Kass, put that thing

all the way into the fire,

we don't want it

getting up again!

Chief, Chief McClelland,

how's everything going?

Aw, things aren't going too bad,

men are taking it pretty good.

You want to get on the other

side of the road over there!

Bill Cardille who was

a TV personality,

he came out to be the news guy.

And he had to interview

Kuss as the Sheriff.

So, all those lines,

the greatest lines in the movie

were all ad libbed by Kuss.

Are they slow moving, Chief?

Yeah, they're dead,

they're all messed up.

All that sh*t was

completely off the cuff.

This is Bill Cardille,

WIIC, TV 11 news.

Bill Cardille, almost every

Saturday night he would plug us

and say there are these

guys in Pittsburgh

that are actually

making a horror movie.

And I'm going to go out

and I'm going to appear in it.

So we got a little

bit of a profile.

And, because of that profile

I think people believed

that we were going to,

probably more than us,

that we were actually

going to finish this movie.

Yeah, Chief, we're going

to stay with it

until we meet up

with the National Guard.

- Where'd you get the coffee?

- One of the volunteers.

You're doing all the work,

why don't you take it.

Bill Cardille came out

and brought the camera guy

from Channel 11

and he brought his gear.

The helicopter pilot

for local radio station KQV

lets Russ Streiner ride

with him to get aerial shots.

We called the Police,

we got real police

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