April Mullen films indie comedy downtown Niagara Falls
September 29, 2008
Printed by the Review
Coming home … with a camera crew
April Mullen films indie comedy downtown
Posted By JOHN LAW
With everyone around her buzzing, April Mullen gives about ten orders – including one to her dad – before changing into a skintight orange jumpsuit straight out of “Charlie’s Angels.”
Two doors down her ‘girls’ are waiting – assorted friends and family members squeezed into fishnets and miniskirts.
It would appear the former Miss Teen Niagara is running a whorehouse on Erie Avenue. Passing cars slow down to take a peek.
But once inside the former Olde Country Antiques building, she’s all business. She’s directing her first movie, a comedy called “GravyTrain,” and the large crew has gathered to shoot a complex scene in tight quarters.
Stars Colin Mochrie, Jennifer Dale, Kyle Schmid and several extras are crammed into a hot, musty room transformed into a bordello. The carpets are discoloured from mold. The ceiling tiles bulge from a leaking roof. Appropriate for a movie taking place in the ‘70s, because that was probably the last time this place was liveable.
Mullen, who also stars in the movie (hence the jumpsuit), tells one of the sexed-up girls how to enter the room: “Michelle, you’re going to saunter in and be really … buttsy.” A demonstration follows. (more…)
