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Polk County Itemizer-Observer • March 16, 2016 7A
By Jolene Guzman
The Itemizer-Observer
JOLENE GUZMAN /Itemizer-Observer
The crew prepares to film a scene in the rain on March 9.
JOLENE GUZMAN/ Itemizer-Observer
Patrick Magee “Primal Rage” director, right, goes over a scene with actor Jackey Ney-
man Jones on March 9. Several scenes in the movie were filmed in Falls City.
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movie magic on “Men in
Black 3,” “Alien vs. Predator,”
and “Jurassic Park 3.”
Once Magee gave the
monster a body and face, he
began working on it as a
character. Magee’s Oh-Mah is
based on Native American
legend and is all the more
frightening because of his
human-like intelligence.
“By no means is he just a
big slobbery kind of mon-
ster,” Magee said. “He’s intel-
ligent, stealthy, calculating. I
consider him the missing
link. … Not what we’ve seen
in any other Bigfoot movie.”
Magee’s horror movie
found itself in Falls City by
way of another — “Manos
Returns.” Falls City resident
Jackey Neyman Jones, the
star and producer of the in-
the-works sequel to “Manos:
The Hands of Fate” also has
a small role in Primal Rage.
Jay Lee, the co-writer and
director of cinematography
for Primal Rage, also worked
on a failed Manos sequel.
While filming the doomed
movie, Lee told Jones about
Magee’s project. Years later,
Magee asked Jones to con-
sult on the scene that was
shot at her home last week.
“I feel really amazed and
honored that they came all
this way,” she said.
Most of the film was shot
in northern California.
Her backyard is a scene of
shift for the sheriff, a Native
American played by Eloy
Casados, who begins to see
proof of what he’s long dis-
missed as folklore.
He’s talked into attending
a peyote healing ceremony
for Jones’ character, Verna
Six Trees, who has cancer.
Jones, with her ex-hus-
band, participated in cere-
monies marking their mar-
riage and other occasions in
real life. They agreed to help
make that scene realistic,
without giving away too
much about the ritual.
“I really liked that Patrick
was so humble and coming
at it with respect,” Jackey
Jones said.
The ceremony becomes a
peyote-inspired vision quest
for the sheriff. After years of
being sheriff, he has to let go
of the “structured and pro-
grammed” part of his life,
Magee said.
“While he’s participating
in the scene, he has his vi-
sions and it gets really real to
him,” Magee said. “The fan-
tasy aspect of the movie be-
comes real, believable.”
Meanwhile, Oh-Mah con-
tinues to inflict terror in the
forest, but has become reck-
less, Magee said.
“He’s doing bad things.
Like humans, when you
start doing bad things that
aren’t right, there’s conse-
quences,” Magee said.
Those wondering what
Magee means by “doing bad
things,” the wait won’t be
long.
The Falls City scenes were
the last to be filmed with the
premiere slated for the fall.
“I don’t believe that it is
almost done, but it’s close,”
Magee said.
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serious Bigfoot movie,”
Magee said. “I always want-
ed to make something like
that, and have as much time
as possible to make some-
thing that I would be happy
with.”
Magee took almost a
decade to perfect everything
from how the creature looks
to creating a story that does-
n’t cast Oh Mah as giant and
frightening, but lacking in
brain power.
The first part is right in
Magee’s wheelhouse. Magee
specializes in special effects
makeup, animatronics and
monster suits. He’s worked
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FALLS CITY — A cool rain
fell and the clouds closed in,
creating a feeling of isola-
tion.
The local sheriff quietly
ducked into the house, un-
sure he wanted to see what
he was about to see.
He put away what he
thought were superstitious
beliefs years ago, but he may
have to grasp onto them
again as evidence mounts of
a mysterious danger.
The rain poured harder
on the foothills town, the fog
drifted in, and the sense of
“something is out there” be-
comes palpable.
This is Oh-Mah’s domain,
and the creature has been
staking his claim.
That is the set up for the
scene in the feature-length
film “Primal Rage: The Leg-
end of Oh-Mah,” filmed on
March 9 in Falls City.
Oh-Mah is better known
as Bigfoot. It seems fitting
that the movie shot a few
scenes in Falls City in the
middle of the same forests
the mythical creature would
call home.
That is where Patrick
Magee, the film’s director
and co-writer, would like the
movie’s parallel with mod-
ern Bigfoot lore to end.
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world of horror movies,
they’re lacking a really good,
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