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I’m not talking about the eleven volumes of the Warren Commision’s report but the software used to deinterlace and retime Camp Slaughter. The movie will be released in time for Halloween and open in theatres throughout Scandinavia, with an international DVD release following soon after.

Magic Bullet Suite, from Red Giant Software, consists of a set of five Adobe After Effects plug-ins that take original, high-quality digital video and converts it to 24 frames per second. The process reduces many of the artifacts present in digital video footage. The software, which works on both Macintosh and Windows platforms, has been used on numerous productions selected for prestigious international film festivals.

Shot on a Sony PD150, Camp Slaughter is the story of a group of high school graduates throwing a party. Unfortunately for them — but fortunately for the gore-hungry audience — a strange family lives in the neighborhood. The family’s eldest son is a giant who dresses in girls clothing and wears a bag over his head. The movie’s villain slaughters his way through the fun-loving teenagers, believing them to be big bunnies.

“We used Magic Bullet Suite for the entire film, and we found the quality to be way above anything out there. For deinterlacing and deartifacting it really is the only choice. Most applications out there just throw away fields and blur the resulting artifacts, or they combine the layers into faux frames using blur techniques. But not Magic Bullet Suite — it interpolates fields, to give much better results,” said film director Munthe.

You can find a behind the scene gallery from Camp Slaughter over at TheFilmset.com.

Update: The link to the pressrelease stopped working so I’ve updated this story.