Early working titles for the film includedLucky StrikeandThe Northern Story.The film, inspired in part by the gruesome Donner Party story, was shot (over a period of 15 months from spring 1924-summer 1925) both on a Hollywood studio back lot and in Truckee, California/Nevada, and premiered in New York at the Strand Theatre in mid-August, 1925.People take one look at me and go ""Aah! Help! Run!"" A big stupid ugly ogre.They judge me before they even know me.That""s why I""m better off alone."In Farquaad""s bedroom, he lounged in his luxurious bedroom as he repeatedly asked the Magic Mirror to show him his "perfect" Princess Fiona...for much deeper and bigger problems.He""s a very disturbed young man."Loomis proposed a series of tests and evaluations, as Michael snuck away from the office, and then wearing his clown mask and using a large tree limb, bludgeoned a pleading Wesley o death(# 1 death)as he walked home through a wooded area.So that""s the reality that we have to heal you from." Laurie described her relationship with Annie as "not good" - calling her scarred face "a constant reminder" of the rampage, which she blamed on herself.