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FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.queenscourier.com APRIL 3, 2014 • THE QUEENS COURIER 11 BAYSIDE FAMILY FILMS FRIGHT FLICK BY MELISSA CHAN mchan@queenscourier.com (A lot of) blood is thicker than water. A fear-loving Bayside family has wrapped up its gory low-budget terror fl ick and will soon send the homemade horror off to some of the city’s biggest fi lm festivals. “This is my baby,” said Rick McDonald, 26, who directed the grisly $5,000 thriller, Lucifer’s Angels. “It’s a real achievement. We actually made a film.” The gripping, guts-filled movie, which was four years in the making, plays on primal fears and is far from a typical slasher film, McDonald and his family said. “I like to get scared. That’s the bottom line,” said Brian McDonald, 55, Rick’s uncle and right-hand producer. “There are so few movies that scare me anymore.” So the clan threw cannibals and a killer clown named Mr. Smiles into the startling supernatural mix to promise an hour-long hellish ride. The tale follows three groups of strangers who wind up in an area of the Catskill Mountains haunted by four wrongly executed mental hospital patients. “When you don’t have a budget, you have to be 10 times more creative,” said Brian, a salesman by day. Peppered with hidden Stephen King and Alfred Hitchcock elements, it is a “psychologically terrifying homage to classic horror,” Rick said. “I was raised on horror movies,” said the IT specialist and New York Institute of Technology graduate. “This isn’t an amateur, student fi lm.” The eight lifelong residents of Bayside sacrifi ced nights, weekends and vacations to wrap shooting in 2012 and editing last week. But the family that scares together stays together. They’ll see the fruits of their labor — and parts of their hometown city suburbs — on the silver screen April 13, during a private viewing at MovieWorld Cinemas in Douglaston. 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