PRODUCTION PHOTOS 2012-2014: The Root of Evil
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Director Ryan Huang films with the studio favorite: a Blackmagic Production Camera.

Ryan Huang confers with 1st AD Maureen Gleason prior to shooting the bar gunfight scene.

Gangsters pour into the bar during the pivotal shootout.

Huang films with the Canon XA20 camcorder.

Studio props: WW2-era training weapons alongside airsoft guns.

Logan Johnson (right) in his cameo role as a sinister bartender.

Huang demonstrates choreography for an action scene.

Heavily armed gunmen burst onto the scene.

Jackson Anderson as Agent Zoltan.

Left to right: Ryan Huang, Jacob Hellevik, Nicholas Beck, Albert Rysavy, and Luke Owens.

A poignant moment near the end of the bar scene.

Jackson Anderson acts out Agent Zoltan's last moments.

Actor Thomas Donlon watches as 2nd AD Pranshu Parmar (center) reviews a shot with Huang.

Taking a break from filming: Pranshu Parmar referees a bare-knuckle brawl between Huang and Donlon.

Ryan Huang relays instructions during filming of the ambitious nightclub scene.

Elegance from ages past.

Leading lady Maureen Gleason portraying Agent Chanson.

Dancers sway to the beat of the band.

Lunch break: extras line up to collect their "pay."

Agents Boroshlav and Chanson make an entrance.

Boroshlav greets the club proprietor.

Pranshu Parmar mans the camera.

Quinn Reinhard appears as an elegant club singer.

Viktor Boroshlav gives a sidelong glance at Chanson.

Dr. Miguel Mulet (foreground) assists with camera work during the nightclub scene.

Boroshlav interrogating at gunpoint.

Henchman Emile De Grave, played by cross country runner D. J. Chatelaine.

Joshua Dub as Montresor.

Plainclothes detectives keep a curious crowd at bay.

Filming on location at Masonic Lodge #77. Waseca, MN.

Jacob Hellevik (left) and Albert Rysavy as McGurn and O'Malley.

Thomas Donlon as Alfred Kensington, the main antagonist.

Viktor Boroshlav donning a white dinner jacket.

O'Malley pulls up in his 1929 REO Flying Cloud.

Gunmen enter the fray in a Buick Phaeton.

O'Malley leads the attack alongside McGurn and Scarpelli.

Filming against a vibrant fall backdrop.

Shooting on the coldest day of the year. Wind chill: -20 degrees Fahrenheit.

Jackie Warehime as a classic femme-fatale.

Quinn Reinhard and Nicholas Beck chat during a lull in filming.

A well dressed couple prepares to catch a train.

A strange event unfolds in the midst of a busy train station.

Josh Weisenburger (left) as a railway attendant.

Ryan Huang as Boroshlav.

"Some things never die."

Ryan Huang uses a Panasonic TM90 mounted on a Glidecam motion stabilizer.

Huang directs a snow chase scene from the feature version of The Root of Evil.

Early poster prototype, 2013.