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Roger T. Pipe What were you doing before?
Slain Wayne I was working construction in South Central L.A. I was working there when the riots happened. I was also in charge of a show called the underground film nights in Hollywood, I was showing really fucked up films in a coffee shop, the funny thing is that it made it in L.A. weekly's best film series of 1997. Before that I was a drummer for a lot of bands.
Roger T. Pipe How did you get into porn?
Slain Wayne Some of the audience (Toby Dammit, Greg L.) who came to see my films at the show worked in the adult industry and thought my films were pretty innovative so they hooked me up with some companies. I thought it would be funny to apply experimental underground film techniques to adult videos and they hooked me up with Extreme who let me do whatever I wanted.
Roger T. Pipe What was it like the first time you were on set?
Slain Wayne It was nerve-racking, when I was directing my first feature "Terrors from the Clit", Rob Black was just breaking up with his girl friend during that time, he was my cameraman on my shoot but right in the middle he would drop the camera and walk off to deal with his problems. During this time there was an AIDS scandal going on with Marc Wallace, I never met him but talent was hard to cast because they were scared to work unless it was condom only and Extreme was not about that. I wouldn't care less but that was their thing so I had to comply and because of that there were a lot of no-shows. I threw the script out the window because things changed really fast. I was dealing with a new set of rules, in a cliquish industry that wasn't kind to newcomers. I thought to myself "This is going to come out bad" and yet it received an AVN editors choice and a few nominations.
Roger T. Pipe Were you a big porn fan before?
Slain Wayne Oh yes, I was a peeping tom at a young age and when I discovered porn It saved me from falling off trees and fences to peep at my neighbors having sex.
Roger T. Pipe What was your first movie as a director?
Slain Wayne When I was thirteen I was given a super-8 film camera, I was to be the families documentarian, but instead I made a film called FREAK SHOW it was a claymation piece, because I had these clay figures fucking and eating each other, I couldn't have my friends do that. One day my Mom was drunk at a party she told her friends that I've been working on a film. She insisted on having me project it, since technically she was my Producer I had to comply, I remember my brother charging my Mom's friends 10 cents to enter my room in the basement area. I turned on the projector then RAN MY ASS OFF! I was ready to run away thinking my Mom was going to turn me in to a nut house. When I came back, everyone was laughing their asses off, thank God they were all drunk.
Roger T. Pipe How many have you shot?
Slain Wayne Too many to count.
Roger T. Pipe Did you find a lot of resistance to the kind of stuff you wanted to shoot?
Slain Wayne There were a few, and surprisingly it wasn't the blood and porn thing which I use to do in Terrors from the Clit, the resistance came from behind the scenes, the budgets were really low so I had to do everything myself, I was always going against the grain and I had to shoot guerilla style, and this would be for a feature.
Roger T. Pipe What was it like working for Extreme?
Slain Wayne Pretty dramatic, when I went to work it was like going into a war zone, things were disorganized and chaotic. I just had to go with the flow but when I couldn't handle the stress I would lock myself in the editing bay and tune out while I worked. People in the company didn't like me so it felt like I was walking on a tightrope a mile high while people were throwing stuff at me.
Roger T. Pipe Who are you working for now?
Slain Wayne Kick Ass pictures, Smash pictures, West Coast Productions, Sin City, and I started my own company Sub-vision films which you can buy through Elite multimedia. I do the occasional edits for Tom Zupko at Extreme.
Roger T. Pipe Do you write your own stuff as well?
Slain Wayne I wrote all of my stuff except for the first Kung-Fu Girls, which was written by David Aaron Clark.
Roger T. Pipe Who are your porn influences?
Slain Wayne There are too many to name, Jim Lane is one of them, I use to work for him, let’s see there's Lee G., Brandon Irons, and Col. Rob at Mondo Video.
Roger T. Pipe Non porn?
Slain Wayne David Lynch, Lars Von Trier, Alejandro Judurowski, Andy Worhol, Lucio Fulchi, George Romero,a lot of underground and horror figures.
Roger T. Pipe You often mix sex with horror. Are there any subjects that you just won’t touch?
Slain Wayne Granny gang bangs. That's more horrific than horror films itself.
Roger T. Pipe What is harder to shoot, the sex or the other stuff you do?
Slain Wayne It depends on the situation I've cut out some of the stuff I do lately to save time and money, The sex is the easy part because it doesn't rely on effects or dialog. But then again there are times when the talent can't perform and I'd have to wait.
Roger T. Pipe What do you think of Thomas Zupko?
Slain Wayne He would always say "He was Elton John and I was his Bernie Taupin," together we made a great team, he would depend on me to edit his films, I'm his one and only favorite editor, but I have a lot of projects to do and his stuff is very time consuming. I've had a love hate relationship with him, because he was so manic at times when it came to his work, but he knows that editing is 95% of the movie and if it's done right, it could make the movie a lot better, and get good reviews.
Roger T. Pipe Are you and Wanker Wang actually the same person?
Slain Wayne No, I don't know where that came from, although Beau Demascus and Slain Wayne are one person, also Lazarus, and Sir Blain. Wanker is a friend of mine who is really good at web sites, he's pretty much in demand, sometimes I don't agree with some of the stuff he writes, because he can be brutal slamming my friends, who in turn, think I had an influence on it. I find the gossip thing pretty insane, but I realize it's part of the business, believe it or not I get a lot of work from bad word of mouth.
Roger T. Pipe Now that you have a proven track record, is the response different when you pitch an idea for a movie?
Slain Wayne I haven't pitched a movie idea in a long time, the ideas I have I think is too "Weird" for the porn market so I'm separating that to my side projects. I just fill in for some series that a company is doing or I come up with what is marketable.
Roger T. Pipe Have you had any ideas turned down because they were just too extreme?
Slain Wayne No not really, but I've tamed down a lot, I just went through that phase with Extreme, and now I just moved over so that Tom Zupko can take over, I just focus on shooting hot sex and a basic story line, I do the occasional crazy thing but I'm trying to cover all gamut's in the industry, like wall to wall, gonzo stuff.
Roger T. Pipe How did you get along with Kid Vegas?
Slain Wayne I didn't know him that well, he came into Extreme after I left. I would hear crazy things about him and I've spoken to him from time to time but nothing too dramatic, although he did break my steps by the spa once at a party while he was drunk. He keeps promising that he would repair it.
Roger T. Pipe Who was your favorite talent to shoot?
Slain Wayne There are a lot. I really didn't have a bad time with any of them. I like KIKI D’aire, she gave me her 1st anal, there's also Felony, Sunrise Adams, Faith, Alana Evans, Claire, Brandy Lyons, Patricia, Sid Vicious, Jenna Haze, Olivia Saint and the list goes on.
Roger T. Pipe Who was your least favorite talent to shoot?
Slain Wayne The only bad time I had with a talent was Sharon Wild, for Kung Fu Girls #3 but that was because she was called in for the last minute to replace a no-show, she was up all night the night before so she was burnt out. She wanted to leave early so I changed the script were she was under a sleeping spell through the whole movie and it all worked out in the end. She even got the cover.
Roger T. Pipe Where can fans go to see more of your stuff?
Slain Wayne You can go to www.Kickasspictures.com , www.Extremeassociates.com , Sinister video, Elite multimedia, Smash pictures, I'm working on www.subvisionfilms.com films and www.Slainwayne.com.
Roger T. Pipe What projects do you have in the works?
Slain Wayne Kelly Kick Ass for Kick Ass Pictures, also Cock Crazy Quickies through Elite just came out as well as Kung-fu girls #4.
Roger T. Pipe Anything else you would like to add/talk about?
Slain Wayne Well, I'm staring my own thing with Elite. I'm trying out new concepts like instead of your average five scenes, I'll put in nine. I figure if it only takes the average guy to get off within seven to twelve minutes, why not make the scenes that long? This way I can add more scenes with different girls and the viewer wouldn't have to use the fast forward button too much. I see porn headed towards this direction, the Internet is like what video was to film. It revolutionized the industry so everything is quick. What I was doing at Extreme is now the norm, everyone is guerilla shooting with no crew, with the market being saturated new directors have to be resourceful. The problem with that is that it's becoming more mechanized. You have too much productions going on all over the world, mainly eastern Europe, a lot of big companies are going there to shoot since talent is a lot cheaper. I see a big shift in the industry in about two years, it should be interesting.
Roger T. Pipe You were telling me that you were also going to take on new responsibilities with your product?
Slain Wayne I am going to do something in this industry that I don't think has been done before, I usually am a one man crew, lighting directing, camera, still etc. Now I'm going I'm going to see if one man can run a company i.e. producing, editing, P.R. filing etc. pretty much everything, even my own site which will be www.subvisionfilms.com which will be a learning process for me to update almost daily of the scenes or projects of that day. If this works out perhaps the industry may change even more.
Roger T. Pipe Thanks a lot and we’ll be looking forward to seeing a lot of new stuff from you.
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