The Horrible Green Wreck
super-8 film, unfinished, 1980-1982
The Horrible Green Wreck was the last super-8 film that Brian Stockton and I worked on together. Following our series of shorts from grade 6 to 12, this was a longer work telling the comical story of a car that ate things and eventually people. It was based upon one Brian's father's work cars which we used sometimes and always found inexplicable things under the seat of (a rifle cartridge comes to mind). We used a more (un)stylish 1960 station wagon to represent the car in the film. It was never properly finished but most of the footage got transferred to video and roughly edited to be a 10 or 15 minute film. The clip above shows paul Stockton buying the car and having it briefly stolen by Shaf of Wheat Soup fame. You can also see a glimpse of "Hurricane" Smith while he was a dj at CKCK radio in Regina. He can now be heard somewhere in Alberta.