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"As I've grown older, I've found myself having more film ideas than musical ones. Having an independent label, Invada Records, I wondered if I could actually make a film. I was at school with [co-writer and actor] Marc Bessant, I've worked with [director] John Minton for 20 years and I met [co-writer] Rob Williams a scriptwriter for Judge Dredd and stuff when he moved to Portishead [Somerset]. The idea of someone trapped in an upside down car comes from JG Ballard's Concrete Island."

"There are only a couple of sequences, but we wanted to capture the way the rave scene went from free festivals to something more corporate where the drugs were really organised. All my mates in Portishead [the town] were ravers. I wasn't. I went to a couple, but for the film I looked at lots of old footage and bought most of the clothes for the film on eBay."

A shift from music to filmmaking motivated production under the independent label Invada Records. Key collaborators include co-writer/actor Marc Bessant, director John Minton, and co-writer Rob Williams. The film's central image—someone trapped in an upside-down car—derives from JG Ballard's Concrete Island. The original horror concept involving rabid dogs was reworked into a story set during the decline of rave culture. Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods was cast as a poacher. Authenticity for the 1990s rave sequences was achieved through archival footage and sourcing period clothing from eBay.

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