Terror at Tenkiller (1986)

Anecdotes

Terror at Tenkiller is a 1986 American slasher film directed and produced by Ken Meyer, and starring Stacey Logan, Michelle Merchant, Michael Shamus Wiles, and Kevin Meyer. Its plot follows two female college students spending their summer vacation at Lake Tenkiller in rural Oklahoma where a rash of grisly murders are occurring.

Production

Shortly after graduating from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Kevin Meyer was approached by his father, documentary filmmaker Ken Meyer, who had been offered to direct a horror film for the Oklahoma-based home media company United Entertainment Pictures, who had previously produced and released Blood Cult (1985).

To keep production costs low, Kevin recruited several of his classmates from USC to work on the project, among them cinematographer Steven Wacks, and actor Michael Shamus Wiles, the latter of whom had appeared in a student film directed Kevin and filmmaker Jeff Burr. Lead actress Stacey Logan was a recent graduate of Oklahoma City University at the time of her casting, and was performing in touring theater productions.

Principal photography occurred on location at the Lake Fort Gibson and Fort Gibson Dam in Oklahoma, which stood in for the Tenkiller Lake. Though released directly-to-video, the film was shot on 16 mm film with director Ken Meyer's personal Eclair NPR camera. United Entertainment Pictures's in-house special effects studio, DEFX, designed the gore effects used in the film.

Kevin Meyer, in addition to acting in the film, served as a production coordinator, second unit director, and additional photographer on the project.

The actors' dialogue in the film had to be entirely dubbed in post-production because much of the sound recorded was rendered unusable due to imposing background noise from locusts and cicadas at the filming locations. Actresses Stacey Logan and Michelle Merchant were dubbed by other voice actresses, and were not aware their dialogue in the film had been dubbed until after it was released.

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