This film is the first feature film written and directed by the famous special effects director Glenn McQuaid. This story was inspired by a short film he created in 2005 called "Rehabilitation Apprentice" ... McQuade explained: "The short film made as early as four years ago tells a very simple story, basically describing a story. I have always been particularly interested in smoky, bloody and horrible movies. The reason why I was inspired at first was to shoot such a short film to express my unique respect for similar horror works. However, after I finished filming The Apprentice, I realized that there seemed to be many potential elements and story themes worth exploring and excavating in this fictional tomb raiding world created by me in the18th century, so I tried to purposefully expand the environment and concepts formed in the short film and develop an unimaginable new scene atmosphere and background story for Arthur Black and Willie Grims.

After becoming the length of a film, Confession of the Grave Robber chose flashback pictures to tell the whole story, because this narrative method also made Len Marquaid, a film personality, constantly explore different film styles, switch at will, and choose the form that best conforms to the development rhythm of the story. McQuaid continued: "This free way of telling stories also gives me enough space. Let me look for a wider world, get a creative pass, and reinterpret this story from a completely different perspective and point of view ... After all, the specific contents of these memories and experiences are from the mouth of a bored and drunk grave robber, and their credibility needs to be considered. You can regard them as myths and legends, because he is not the kind of trustworthy realistic historian. "

When Ron Marquette finished the last stage of the script, he immediately showed the complete story to producer Larry Fessenden. He knew that this would definitely arouse Fassenden's desire to participate in the production. Marquette said, "In fact, from the beginning, Fassenden made a mature proposal. He hoped that Bram Revel, another special effects artist and painter, and I could first adapt the script into a cartoon-they were very familiar with each other because of their early works Wendigo and The Last Winter. The process and steps in this process are priceless. Before the script is put into formal film production, a comic book album will definitely give it a visual concrete presentation, which will effectively help the grave robbers to confess and establish the overall atmosphere and image style. Then, I visited another producer, Peter Bowker, with Fasenton and persuaded him to join us. "

The arrival of Peter Bowker brought hope and ambition to Glenn McQuaid, and it was under its active operation that Marquette finally saw the dawn of Confessions of a Grave Robber on the big screen. He said: "At this stage of the development of the script, we can already be said to be fully prepared. Not only did we take a nearly finished cartoon as a storyboard, but the actors for several main roles were basically finalized. These include the famous dominic monaghan, Ron Perlman and Angus Scrimm. They all agreed to sign the performance contract without compensation, and I have always appreciated their generous help, regardless of gains and losses. "

In order to effectively convey all the imagination he put into the film, Glenn McQuaid specially made a "visual diary" for Confession of the Grave Robber. He admitted: "This diary contains photos, posters and the like that inspired me to create this story, as well as some scene pictures and structural drawings made in the early preparation. Including the animated sketches I drew with Bugrahan lever * * * ... These are the heroes behind the scenes who helped me outline the whole story. Once the shooting work is really put on the agenda, I need the cooperation of my photographer Richard Lopez, fashion designer David Talbot and the art department. I believe I can definitely give them the fastest speed.

Costume films focusing on a specific period.

From the very beginning, the film Glenn Marquaid intentionally soaked the confessions of grave robbers in the story atmosphere created by the old-school partner films, which represented an overview of friendship and was told by a symbolic young man. Marquette said: "In addition to the extremely close relationship that only exists between partners, the film also focuses on special things related to grave robbery. More importantly, it explains how to get everything you want from those terrible creatures who have undergone corpse transformation, including money and jewelry ... I believe that audiences who like horror movies or zombie movies will definitely get unexpected fun from it. "

For Glenn McQuaid, it is really a great challenge to make a low-cost costume movie with a certain period in new york as the theme, which is almost an impossible task. Marquette said: "As we all know, the budget in our hands is really pitiful, and it is impossible to build some gorgeous scenes of18th century for the film, so we have to spend several months extensively looking for suitable shooting. First of all, we chose a local bar and renovated it into a grave robber's inn-although these places are inevitably too lacking in the sense of the times to convey the information of the film well, at this time we need to rely on shooting technology, lighting decoration, illustration contrast, traditional unsmooth picture quality and digital special effects to make up for possible defects. "

In the original short film The Apprentice of the Grave Robber in 2005, Larry Fasenton and Daniel Manche played the roles of two grave robbers respectively. Among them, Fasenton not only continued his role in the new feature film, but also assumed the important responsibility of the producer ... Since Fasenton will soon be right, the confession of the grave robbers shows that this will be a world of higher souls than before.

At the same time, another producer, Peter Bowker, has been studying the very popular TV series Lost. He found that he especially likes Charlie played by dominic monaghan in the play, and he also thinks that he is very suitable for the young grave robber Arthur who likes pranks and is a little naughty in the film. After the talks, monaghan readily accepted the role. Everything seems to be going well, but he won't join the cast until the third season of Lost is finished.

Almost at this time, Larry Fasenton began to approach Xiang Lang Pullman in a planned way, intending to let him play the controversial role-Father Francis Duff. Because they had a cooperative experience in Farsenton's Last Winter, they are all eagerly waiting for a second chance. After reading the script, Pullman quickly fell in love with the story. He was also very interested in the cast assembled by Glenn McQuaid, so he decided to star in the film. However, because he has signed the contract for guillermo del toro's Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, the filming of Confession of the Grave Robber has to be postponed again for him.

Finally, in May 2007, dominic monaghan just finished filming the third season of Lost, and the main filming work of the film can finally begin. After shooting a series of fantastic backgrounds around new york, this story of European clothing, which happened in the early18th century, was actually shot entirely in new york. The whole shooting time lasted almost 18 days, and then the filmmakers began to wait. Everyone is looking forward to Ron Perlman's early completion of his role in the Golden Army.

From June, 5438 to February, 2007, Ron Perlman, who had just finished his last job, immediately rushed to the crew and filmed the play continuously for seven days. The filming of "Confession of the Grave Robber" was finally completed, and he entered a more intense and busy post-production in the cold winter.

When considering the sound effect of the original music of Confessions of a Grave Robber, Glenn McQuaid had already planned a clear attitude and cognition. He finished the soundtrack of the film with composer Jeff Grace. Marquette said: "We should first determine the music style according to the content of the script as soon as possible, which will play a positive role in promoting future shooting. Grace and I intercepted different styles of music, from pagan folk culture to a fantasy world full of psychedelic colors-we just wanted to find our favorite music melodies and understand why they attracted us so much. What can they bring to our story? When we started recording notes on paper, we also chose to add brass music, which also mixed a series of chain saws and human whistles ... We got creative inspiration from the music works of my idols john williams and ennio morricone, and our concentrated original vocal music will play an extremely violent and noisy role in the film. "