The real life Honda Accord from the film Carma has been strangely haunted by a weird karma of its own.
Recently, Carma director Ray Arthur Wang was involved in a near-fatal crash when he was driving the car, whose name is Rage. In the inexplicable, freak accident, Ray slid on a slippery part of the highway and careened into the wall of a tunnel at above freeway speed. Uninjured save for minor bruises, he continues to move forward to launch Carma. The Accord, however, now sits in a junkyard, scrunched up like an accordion.
This is neither the first nor last time the fine line between reality and filmmaking has been blurred in making Carma. The whole concept of Carma began when the director was driving Rage after midnight and the security system began to fail. The first symptom was the power door locks engaging and disengaging uncontrollably with the door knobs popping up and down, just like in the movie. From this seed of an idea, the screenplay took on a life of its own.
In addition to Academy AwardTM nominee Karen Black, the film features an unusual cast of "real people" including a real life ex-convict, who plays the role of Norm Burns, the psychopathic killer. Being an ex-con in and out of jail makes it a lot easier to get into the role. Click here for a video of Carma's lead actor Peter Kiszka talking about how he stays "in character" to play the role of a psychopath.
