The Unspeakable

Here's some tales from Lance about his latest project, Unspeakable (taken from the Daily News):

THE BIG SCREEN SCREAM: Filming of Lance Henriksen's forthcoming big-screen thriller "The Unspeakable" left a lot of the company speaking about ghosts, and not in a hypothetical way. "It was really scary," reports Henriksen. "We were shooting in the (former) New Mexico State Prison where they had a riot in 1980, which was the bloodiest riot that ever happened in the United States ... There were like 35 inmates killed. There are stains on the floor where people were burned. It was really awful." And the place is apparently haunted, to hear Lance tell it. "When the crew was laying cable in the basement one night, one of them was sure he was pushed."

The former "Millennium" star says despite that, he got up the nerve "to go down into the bowels of the prison by myself at night with a flashlight. I had gooseflesh on me, then I felt like somebody pushed me in the back. I don't know if it was a muscle spasm or what, but I ran out of there." He adds, "The whole cast and everybody wanted to find a big kahuna or somebody to bless the production and keep the ghosts away." Even without such a presence, shooting concluded recently with cast and crew intact.

"Tom Wright, who directed half of the Millennium episodes, got a movie to do.  I said 'Tom, i'm coming to be in the movie.  I don't care what the role is, i just wanna be there with you while you're doing your movie.'  Dennis Hopper was in it and I went to Santa Fe and worked two or three weeks on it.  It was in a prison.  What a prison!  We were in this prison where they had the worst riot in American history.  They killed 35 inmates.  Oh man, that part of the prison from the day of that riot has not been touched."                       Videoscope Winter 2002