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Spine Summer: The Making of THE SPINE OF NIGHT — Part Four

Before the rotoscope, before the blood — there was cardboard, scaffolding, and a warehouse full of nerds with nothing but imagination.

Lacey Gilleran
Aug 15, 2025
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Every epic needs a stage. For The Spine of Night, that stage wasn’t a soundproof studio or some gleaming Hollywood backlot — it was a run-down mill building in the he industrial district of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

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