How we almost flooded the house with dry ice during filming of the final scene of The Aztec Box

We filmed the movie largely consecutively, in order of how things happened. One of the final scenes (that was eventually edited out), involved the professor coming to the house after the finale, as the cops were sorting out the evidence. While the cops were in the other room, the box was supposed to open on its own with fog coming out of it. So we went and got a bunch of dry ice from the supermarket.

The way dry ice works is that it creates fog by adding hot water to it. So we loaded up 3-4 packets of dry ice inside a large container and put it inside the sarcophagus prop. Then we got a big jug of hot water. We didn't have that much ice so we decided to roll on the first try,

So everyone got into positions, a PA poured a bunch of hot water on the dry ice, I yelled "ACTION" and we started rolling. Well, apparently, we put WAY too much dry ice in that thing, because the stuff started coming out like out of a chimney. The room, and then literally the whole house FILLED with fog, and a bunch of water spilled inside the prop as well. Everyone had to leave the room until it all cleared up.

We learned our lesson on the next take and reduced the amount of dry ice by like 5 times to achieve the desired effect. All in all, it was a fun little incident.

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