Lordi spent most of the summer and the fall of 2007 playing festivals in Europe and doing two big tours in the United States, The Ozzfest tour and the Type O Negative Halloween tour. And when they were not on the road, they were filming the long-awaited, upcoming feature-length movie, Dark Floors - The Lordi Motion Picture. The other monsters’ scenes were filmed on a sound stage and the hospital set in Oulu so I didn’t have a chance to visit there, but on September 22nd, when they filmed Awa’s scenes in a studio in front of a green screen in Helsinki, Mr. Lordi called me up and invited me to be there to take some exclusive behind-the-scenes photos for MDH.
Awa’s character had changed quite a lot since I last saw her. It wasn’t a total makeover, more like an Awa version 1.5. She was still rocking the old The Arockalypse-era dress, but now she had a new meaner-looking, more horror inspired face, a thicker raven black hair, proper hands with long black fingernails and some tattered rags dangling from her sleeves. People ask me a lot what’s my all time favorite Awa costume and this is it, from the second I saw her. They nailed it for Dark Floors.
Here’s my gallery from the set. There’s so many of my all time favorites here. All the close-ups of her expressions and different poses, the ones with the clapperboard, her wearing the green socks and taking a break sitting in a wheelchair. Oh my… 35 of these images were up on the original MonsterDiscoHell website, so here’s 15 never-before-seen ones for all you Awa enthusiasts, making it a total of 50 photos! And I guarantee that’s the biggest and most comprehensive Dark Floors Awa behind-the-scenes gallery anywhere on the Internet! Next week we’ll continue with the Dark Floors theme, but it’s gonna be something totally different…
(50 PHOTOS)
