'Saturday Night Live' Wes Anderson horror movie sketch behind-the-scenes description explains how 'Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders' was made perfectly

Two weeks ago, Saturday Night Live aired a pre-recorded clip spoofing director Wes Anderson's stylistic films in a horror themed clip entitled "The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders." The spoof received favorable praise from around the Internet for really nailing the director's style of filmmaking in such a way. This week, SNL's director of photography Alex Buono wrote an in-depth description of how this sketch came together and how it was almost cut from the show.

In this lengthy behind-the-scenes description of the sketch, Buono explains how the show's editors, Adam Epstein and Rhys Thomas, had to lose sleep in order to get the completed spoof finished in time for Saturday's episode.

"There are two major deadlines for the Film Unit. The Dress Rehearsal starts at 8pm - for which the goal is to have the spot fully mixed and color corrected, but sometimes it's not quite there yet," Buon explained. "Then, of course, the live show starts at 11:30pm, and you'd think that would be a pretty hard and fast deadline .... except in this case, when Rhys and Adam were truly down to the wire - scrambling to finish revision notes from the dress rehearsal, minor voiceover changes and final color fixes. Rhys was downstairs in the studio edit bay where the final picture and mix are married together and uploaded to the live switcher. As Rhys was watching down the final cut, he noticed two errors: one shot slipped into the cut without being "un-squeezed" and another repositioned shot had lost its repo. We all know that these kinds of errors happen all the time, but they rarely happen when you are literally gun-t0-the-head, minutes away from a live broadcast."

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