Indie Pornographer Plucked by the Fuzz
by Ray | July 7th, 2008LOMPOC, CA — While psychotic serial killer Brandon aka the Amateur Porn Star Killer seems to be able to avoid police no matter what he does, Shane Ryan – the actor, writer and director behind the mythological character – isn’t nearly as lucky.
Earlier this week, the controversial and critically acclaimed underground filmmaker was held at gunpoint by police for “walking where he shouldn’t be, while filming.” Ryan recently officially announced that for the climax of his snuff trilogy, he would be filming a dark and serious movie in the same vein as his first two and a campy horror porn parody in 3D as well. Ryan had just wrapped a scene with actress Jayden Green for Amateur Porn Star Killer 3D when he was accosted.
Ryan was leaving an abandoned house in Lompoc, California and headed to his car when he heard someone screaming for him to get on the ground.
“Now see, if you stole a car, crashed it, ran away with the cops chasing you, and then they corner you and someone says get on the ground with a gun in your face, you know immediately what to do,” Ryan said. “But when you’re casually walking to your car and that happens, you kind of freeze, like ‘What the fuck?’ So, I was just standing there and he kept yelling for me to drop my camera, and I thought it was some idiot who was just playing around.”
The man with the gun later turned out to be a highway patrolman. But he had approached Ryan from behind the house, there was no police car in sight and he didn’t look like a cop. Or not to Ryan, anyway, whose prescription glasses were sitting on the dashboard of his ride home.
“So I was, again, just going ‘What the fuck?,’” Ryan said. “And then I was thinking, ‘I ain’t dropping my camera on the ground, are you nuts?’ But finally it clicked that I had a cop pointing a gun to my face so I dropped it. Then he wanted me on the ground.”
“I was like ‘There are all kinds of branches and shit, I haven’t done anything and I’m not ruining my only APSK shirt for whatever bullshit this is,’”Ryan said. “So, he keeps yelling and I finally get on my knees. He keeps yelling, so I finally put my hands on the ground, but refuse to lay down. I thought the police are supposed to serve and protect anyways, so fuck those bitches.”
The desolate house has been the shelter for a number of homeless people and scurrying creatures over the years and has been trashed to hell by partying punk teenagers. It’s a dilapidated mess that should probably be condemned and torn down, which makes it the perfect free location for independent filmmakers.
“We’ve been shooting there for months with a couple of other projects,” Ryan said.
The cops searched the house and found nothing. They also searched the two suspects and their belongings. Aside from his camera, Ryan had a pocket full of condoms, a bag featuring tapes with month’s worth of footage, a replica gun and a stack of “Amateur Porn Star Killer” postcards. The postcards and condoms were temporarily taken away and the award winning director was given the third degree about what type of films he makes. Their curiosity and suspicions even lead them to having Ryan show the content of his tapes. At this point Ryan got quite worried as he had just finished filming hardcore sex and a faux murder, using a piece of fried chicken.
“I thought they might confiscate my tapes and Jayden was freaking out that the cops would see her naked, ,” Ryan said. “But they didn’t as I didn’t have most of the tapes labeled.
“Eventually they let us go,” Ryan continued. “They warned that if I’m ever seen over there again I’ll be immediately arrested, which sucks because we have three more scenes from two different movies to shoot over there.”
Tags: Jayden Green, Shane Ryan