Trivia

• The original script for PMS was three times as long as the finished script. It had nothing to do with Psychic PMS warriors or anything. Instead, it was about an angst-ridden law student who goes on a rampage after being scorned by a cheerleader, and in doing so manages to start fights with jocks and uptown geeks. It was really really angsty and long, and it was really just an excuse for me to vent my frustrations. The end script is an extended version of the final scene of the original, cut down because I couldn't be bothered shooting so much stuff.

• The character of Chris was based on a high school friend of mine, who I've since lost contact with.

• The real reason for the inclusion of the hand-drawn comics was that I couldn't be bothered rehearsing and shooting any dialogue scenes. Later on, when I found out that I couldn't be bothered recording any voice-over dialogue either, I decided to make the movie in Japanese with English subtitles, after being inspired by the cruddy cut-scenes in Tecmo's Dead or Alive 2. Goddamn I'm lazy.

• The Japanese samples are taken out of Tecmo's Dead or Alive and Sega's Last Bronx. They're used completely out of context in PMS and make no sense if properly translated.
  

• Chris and Shiven's fighting styles were strongly influenced by Iori and Yamazaki's styles from SNK's King of Fighters '97. If you listen carefully, you can make out lots of KoF '97 sound bites and music in the video. I desperately wanted to include Iori's Maiden Masher move in the video, but I didn't know how to recreate the big purple explosion from it.

• When Shiven takes a drag out of her cigarette at the end, there's a freak sitting on the stairs in the background. I don't know who it is, but apparently he's a psycho-fuck who once asked a friend of mine (a person that he doesn't know) something that went along the lines of: "Do you know any lesbians who would let me watch them having sex?" Yeah, he totally scares the shit out of me.

• We rehearsed a stunt where Megan would kick me into a pillar, but we weren't allowed to do it because the librarian started yelling at us because we were making his computer monitor shake too much. Asshole.
  

• The shirt that Chris is wearing is a Cradle of Filth shirt that says: "Dead girls don't say no… to molestation after dark." Yes, I do like Cradle of Filth. But no, I don't kill Christians or desecrate graves.
  

• The yoyo that rolls along the ground has a sticker with a picture of Tails on it. The same yoyo appears in Amy.
  

• Shiven uses the line: "I am rubber; you are glue." Some people might recognize it as a famous line from the Monkey Island games.
  

• There are several references to David E. Kelly shows like Ally McBeal and The Practice.
  

• The "Fairuza Balk" line is a reference to the actress' goth roles in movies like The Craft and The Waterboy.
  

• The armored soldiers in the beginning are all named after football players, specifically #11 Daunte Culpepper, #26 Robert Smith and #80 Cris Carter. All three are/were members of the Minnesota Vikings, my favorite football team in the whole wide world.