I'm going through the desert sequence now and thinking about the part where Ben gets cut by the spinner in the shrine. This was a replacement for the bird attack scene which never really worked. I'm trying to find a way to make the sequence stronger. Remember, this is supposed to be a "shot across the bow" by an evil entity. I think the problem is that the attack is weak—the spinner doesn't actually do anything. Ben simply gets cut by it. So I've been thinking about alternatives. Maybe Ben sees the shrine. Then we cut to a shot of birds circling in the desert. We then cut to something dripping from the fender of the truck. We pedestal up to see Ben walking toward his car, closer to us. He opens the door, gets in and then desperately tries to get out. From Ben's POV we see a desert fox (or other animal) covered in blood and surrounded by glass on the passenger seat. It is quivering, half alive. Well, it's no horse's head, but it's better than a malevolent cut?
The trick is to do it without going out to the desert. I think we can blue screen it and it will look fine, since we're simply matching sunlight to sunlight. The question is what would the creature look like? You can get a taxidermy animal pretty cheap on ebay and then stuff it and cover it with blood. But you know, every version of the bird sequence also seemed do-able.
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