![]() ![]() It’s a tough trick to pull off in real life. Each time, she cooly lights a match with her thumb. Shortly after reading it my thought was ‘Oh god, I really have to learn how to smoke.’” Skyler does indeed smoke a lot in the film. Tennet explains that “To get a role written specifically with you in mind, pretty much never happens as an actor so it was really flattering, not to mention really exciting. Cawthorne’s initial reaction to the script was “‘Oh shit, this guy (Eddy) is a nutcase who is trying to lure us to the US’ hahaha, I don’t think I’ve ever told him that! But then I read it again, saw how cool the Skyler character is, then as I got more of the script I started to ‘get’ the tone of the film, and after reading the whole first script I was hooked. What starts off as a bizarre love triangle meth cookout in the woods quickly turns into an even more bizarre supernatural time loop of death. Also for Eddie and Maddy I think this was a nice breathe of fresh air, they’d been in children’s TV land for years and years, so this was them really letting their hair down.” “ RPM became very tough after the 5th month of filming, it was a real struggle to get through some of those scenes and that dialogue. Blood Punch is definitely the furthest you can get from a kids’ series where we were fighting rubber monsters and running around in Lycra! But it was also really great to go into a project with a cast, a director and a writer that I knew so well and had such a solid working relationship with already.” “So although we had an awesome time shooting it, by the time we were in our last month of shooting we were all a bit over it and ready to do something else. “Power Rangers is quite a long shoot as far as TV series go,” Tennet explains. Making that shift from kid’s show to bloody horror-comedy was a bit cathartic for them. Like I mentioned they all worked together on a Power Rangers series in New Zealand before Blood Punch. I had the opportunity to toss a few questions at Cawthorne and Tennet (who are married in real life) about the film, what the behind the scenes mayhem was like, and other bloody stuff about this very bloody film. This history shows on screen as their chemistry practically drips between the frames. ![]() One of the things that makes Blood Punch work so well is the cast: Milo Cawthorne ( Deathgasm), Oliva Tennet, and Ari Boyland all worked together before this film on the Power Rangers R.P.M. It’s a vicious cycle that Milo and Skyler must try to break to survive (and sell their meth). When people die on its grounds, well, sometimes they come back. The lodge itself was built on the site of a bloody Native American war, which left a bit of a supernatural mark on the joint. There, Milo is employed by Skyler’s psycho-boyfriend Russell to cook one mammoth batch of meth for a sizable paycheck. At a drug rehabilitation center, he falls for a chain-smoking harlot named Skyler, who quickly whisks Milo away to a remote hunting lodge in the woods. ![]() The film is about Milo, a brilliant chemist with a knack for cooking meth. This movie is a stupid amount of fun and has a body count in the dozens – even if it is the same body getting killed again and again and again. In my review, I called it a “supernatural film noir on meth, with heaps of dark humor and a madcap edge that cuts deep.” After watching it again on Midnight Releasing’s DVD, I stand by my initial 4-skull review. K, is a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in addiction.I saw Madellaine Paxson and Eddie Guzelian’s Blood Punch at last year’s Mile High Horror Film Festival and have been itching to watch it again ever since. It is eventually revealed that Doctor K in fact doesn’t hate Ziggy, and seems to actually truly appreciate him when it is discovered that her computer password is his name and also when she, to Ziggy’s surprise, allows him to take her outside for her birthday. He is retroactively referred to as RPM Green Ranger or Green RPM Ranger as well but this is more in reference to the show, rather than a proper label. Ziggy Grover is the Ranger Operator Series Green, otherwise known as Ranger Green, of the Ranger Operators. Ziggy Grover / RPM Green Ranger in Power Rangers RPM They ended up divorcing in 2016 for undisclosed reasons. Cawthorne lived overseas with Olivia Tennet, a fellow New Zealand actress who has notably co-starred with him as Dr. ![]()
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