Later that season, the Director and I worked together again at an old three-story mansion in Jefferson Park. The house was pillared and decayed and used frequently as a setting for scary movies. Wandering it between takes I found a pentagram painted in blood red on the floor in the basement, and a second-floor bedroom that was empty except for dozens of creepy dolls, scattered on the floor. Why hadn’t anyone cleaned up the dolls after the last shoot? Or were the dolls permanent, just held here in reserve should a future movie need a creepy doll scene? Maybe it was a selling point. Or maybe I
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