Parda would go on to work with producer/actor Joe Zaso and indie horror film star Tina Krause to create the David Lynch-like episode “Szamota’s Mistress.” Wickham had wanted to work with big-bust star SaRenna Lee on a feature film called "Perishing Hearts" after seeing her in "Score Magazine", and he "made it clear to SaRenna he wouldn’t write one word without her coming onboard, because she was the only person he’d make the movie with". Lee then agreed to do the film. Open auditions were held at Mr. Electric Studios in Massapequa on October 25, 1996 for “The Downfall of Johnny Garrett”, which is where Wickham cast Steve Rodriguez. Wickham had already worked with Rodriguez, having directed Rodriguez's band’s “Fetish” music video. Wickham directed two episodes (“The Downfall of Johnny Garrett” and “Stalk”) and Parda directed “Szamota’s Mistress” (with Joe Zaso serving as producer) in the anthology. The segment “The Downfall of Johnny Garrett” was shot in eight days in Bellerose, Deer Park, East Meadow, Garden City, Queens Village, Massapequa, Merrick, Stonybrook, Uniondale, Wantagh, and New York City, New York, with the first night of shooting being on October 18, 1996. Scenes were filmed under the Bellerose Train Station on October 28, 1996, in an industrial park in Garden City Park (after the production had gotten kicked out of Roosevelt Raceway), at Hillary Epstein’s residence in Deer Park, NY on November 3, 1996, behind Mr. Electric Studios in Massapequa, NY on November 2, 1996, and behind Michael Knight's (at the time) music studio in Massapequa, NY. The crew had to utilize some unorthodox lighting by using lights that were actually powered by car batteries in some scenes, since they had little to no access to the electric grid. The crew was actually cut in half early on in the filming in order to minimize drawing the attention of the local police while shooting. Two of Michael Knight's friends (John Hoelzer & Ben Guzik) set up props and did the arm and bone prosthetics for an "arm chop" that occurs in “The Downfall of Johnny Garrett” and helped with lighting and as a production assistant respectively.