Hello there, Story Club members.

I'm Ivy, your ghostly host with The Most and keeper of the strangest, spookiest tales on earth.

Today is another Ivy's chilling tale.

This cinematic account, Story Club members, might make you not want to visit movie sets ever.

It's one I call lights camera kill. Drew Patrick was so proud of his dad. His father, Bruce Evans Patrick, was a horror novelist who had his first book adapted into a movie called The Kill Kill Man.

It was a story about a creepy guy named Max Willem, who lived in a farmhouse and dispatched his victims, usually people who were lost with a sickle, which is a sharp crescent moon-shaped blade on a handle.

Willem often wore a dark trench coat called the duster to do the deed,

and his trademark cowboy hat slung low over his face.

The movie was shooting on location near the side of the actual murders.

When the real Max Willem was finally confronted by police,

he locked himself in his farmhouse and burned it to the ground with him inside.

The place went up like a paint factory.

When the authorities sifted through the ashes, they never found the remains of the Brandon County Butcher, as he was called.

That happened nearly 60 years ago.

Drew's dad based his novel off Willem, but changed many of the details to make it more dramatic.

Just before publication, a movie company purchased the rights to his book and quickly green-let it into production.

The producers even allowed the author and his son to visit the set. How cool was that? Drew's dad was kind of an

on-set consultant, since he knew so much about the Brandon County Butcher. Drew was obviously

more than happy to tag along. He enjoyed making his own movies on his phone and uploading

them to YouTube. One of his five-minute horror movies had nearly a million views and 100,000 likes.

Drew wanted to make a movie about the making of the Kill Kill Man movie, but the producers shut that down.

They didn't want any footage or look of the killer revealed until the movie was released.

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