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Fan-Made Doc Explores How the Found-Footage Genre Poisons Cinema
We came across a horror fan filled with rage, who spends quite a bit of his time complaining about the death of horror (when there are literally hundreds of incredible indies floating around). Even though we don’t like to spend our energy on negativity, I found his “How New Line Cinema Destroyed the Friday the 13th Franchise” to be loaded with gems that offered a lot of food for thought. There was enough effort behind it to share with you guys, even if I don’t agree with everything he says.
One of his other fan-made docs focuses on the found-footage subgenere, and how it’s poisoning cinema.
The 37-minute long doc goes through the history of found-footage (Cannibal Holocaust, Faces of Death, Blair Witch), how it’s a talentless pool of filmmakers, and also explores why it’s popular and how marketing plays a huge role in its success.
To show you how much I love this guy’s work, he references V/H/S various times…and I’m totally cool with it. I too agree that found-footage films can be poison, but it’s no different than when everyone was trying to ripoff Saw; Hollywood emulates what’s popular and will never be behind what’s fresh and cool. The biggest difference is that found-footage is a form of filmmaking that anyone can do, so there are way more indie films available for distributors to pick up and dump onto VOD. It feels like too much. It is too much.
What do you guys think?
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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