I tried that on my first car, a 1964 Dodge Polara 318 Poly. The metal did not hold and cut the filter in two. Had to have it towed to a local mechanic to get the filter base off. Those guys must have had a good laugh.
You just brought back horrible memories, when my sister asked me to change oil in the "new to her corvette"
Damn oil filter was so tight, oil filter wrench crushed the oil filter, then the screwdriver trick did not work.
Ended up it took an air-chisel to spin the base of the filter off.
To this day I hate that vette, another good one is changing a water pump, the huge one-piece radiator shroud on it, is a GM engineering marvel, of stupidity.