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Why is HaplessChild reviewing a movie preview?May 01 '06 Write an essay on this topic.
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The Bottom Line Based on a viewing of the trailer for Worst Case Scenario, I felt the need to tell others of its existence.
I am a film marketing manager's dream: I love movie previews. If I arrive late to the theater and walk in midway between previews I feel cheated in some way, like I am not getting the entire movie-going experience. For this reason you will often find me in my seat at least twenty minutes before the movie, usually cringing at whatever I am forced to endure during Regal Cinema’s “First Look.” How fortunate I felt when I was in place for the previews at Portland’s recent Zompire Film Festival. For those of you who don’t “get” the name, it was simply one day of vampire films, and one day of zombie flicks. For about ten dollars a night, undead buffs were treated to three feature length films that included Fright Night, Dead Alive, and Night of the Comet, as well as brief shorts reels from local Portland film markers. I realize that at this point you are probably reading this thinking to yourself, “Why do I possibly care that a bunch of geeks in Portland got together to watch some old 80’s horror flicks on the weekend?” Well, Mr. or Mrs. Skeptical, I am doing so to introduce you to the strangest horror movie preview I have seen in a very long time, and because it captivated me so much I feel that I need to get some support out for the movie in hopes that it will one day make it to American shores. You can all send me cookies in the mail as a thank you for enlightening you as to the existence of this film. The host of the Zompire Film Fest got up on the stage and announced the short reel, but noted that he would like us to see the preview for Worst Case Scenario. I really wasn’t expecting a whole lot of anything. The other shorts reels were filmed on basic video equipment, and with Portland’s love of zombies, I was expecting a preview for some guy’s student film project. After watching the degraded quality of Night Of The Comet, my eyes actually snapped awake when this well-produced crystal clear preview started, complete with gorgeous foggy atmosphere drenched in blue and gray tones. What followed was about two minutes of the most surreal looking film I have witnessed since the previews for Dark City: Nazi zombies floating in on balloons. I am going to retype that so you can read it again: Nazi zombies floating in on balloons. I understand that the potential for major cheese factor is there, but I promise you that it actually looks very cool. Cool enough that I bothered to go home, seek out the preview, and tell everyone I know about the movie. Aren’t you glad I include you in my circle of need-to-knows? If you are any kind of horror or zombie fan this will be a movie you want to see. The zombies look like a cross between the guys in Dark City and something from Hellraiser. Apparently they have come back to life and are about to storm a beach. From the main site: In the final of the World Championship soccer games Holland and Germany are going to war. A visiting American and his family try to get away from the nationwide frenzy, but traveling to a North Sea island they wind up in situations far, far worse. Why the director needed to take the already sinister nature of the zombie and cross it with universally hated Nazi, and why he has two countries at war over the World Cup is beyond me, but he did, and if the film looks anything like the preview does it will be wonderful. On the website the director laments endlessly about the problems they have had getting this picture to fruition. In the day and age where the internet can drum up enthusiasm for Snakes On a Plane, I figured that I might as well return the director a favor for making such an effective preview by encouraging you to at least check it out, and if you find it as bizarre as I did please tell your friends. You can find the trailer, and more info about the film at http://www.gorehoundinc.com/ The CGI Trailer is the one I refer to in this Epinion.  |
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