Kill and Kill Again

Kill and Kill Again is a 1981 South AfricanAmerican action film notable for being the first liveaction film to use the visual effects known as bullettime. It is a sequel to Kill or Be Killed 1980. Filmed in Sun City, Bophuthatswana, the film has a more tongue in cheek comedy approach than its predecessor.

The bullettime scene occurs at the end, when Marduk has died and his chief guard is about to kill Dr. Kane while Steve is climbing up the outside of the building theyre in. The guard fires his gun at 13610 and the bullet comes out very slowly and moves across the screen in a recognizable but lowbudget early version of the famous scene in the Matrix. After ten seconds of the bullet flying across the room, Steve Chase has gotten up the building, gets inside the room, and deflects the bullet with a metal ashtray.This very lowbudget BulletTimeSlice sequence was achieved very simply, incamera, with no postproduction effects. The first shot of the bullet exiting the barrel of the gun was shot in closeup, with the barrel removed from the frame of the gun lockedoff pointing downwards but with the camera also turned on its side, framing the barrel horizontally, but pointing down toward the floor. When viewed upright, this would then appear to be pointing at the subject in a correct manner. A bullet, smaller in diameter than the inside of the barrel, was then dropped down through the barrel along with a puff of smoke from a cigarette. The bulletandsmoke shot was filmed at 120fps to create the desired effect. To achieve the Matrixstyle shot that followed, a closeup of the bullet rotating in front of the lens with the camera moving along with the bullet and the victim visible ahead was executed as follows. According to Tai Krige, S.A.S.C, the films cinematographer ........

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