In 1972 a horror movie called Deathdream was filmed in downtown Brooksville. Those who never have seen it, much less heard of it, will get a chance Friday, Oct. 17, when it will be shown in an outdoor setting on Main Street as part of the citys 2014 Founders Week events.
Bob Martinez, publisher of Old Brooksville in Photos and Stories magazine, recalls when the actors and film crew arrived in Hernando County to shoot the film.
My parents owned the local motel and thats where they all stayed, he says. We were booked solid for three months.
Martinez said he knows the movie well. He has a copy of it at home and likes to watch it occasionally. He says he is on his fourth copy now because he loans them out to folks.
I was hired as an extra in the film, he says. I played an ambulance driver in one scene and in another, I helped bring out a dead body on a stretcher.
But thats all Im going to tell you because I dont want to spoil the plot, he says.
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Martinez says he published a volume of Old Brooksville in Photos and Stories in December 2003 that tells about the making of the movie. I took lots of photos, too, and they are all in the magazine, Martinez says.
