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WORLD OF DEATH Ep. 119 – Makeover / A Splinter of the Mind’s Eye
Greetings and salutations WoDer’s and welcome to episode 119 of World of Death. The films in this episode deal with illusion and secrets and the surprises that come from both.
MAKEOVER, shot, cut and directed by Mike Tack, begins with a heavily secured box being transported in to what seems like a military warehouse with armed soldiers and a fully staffed medical team. The opening of the box reveals a monster, a scene reminiscent of The Crate in CREEPSHOW, that is immediately subdued after a booming roar. Once the creature is removed from the box, the medical team begins to dissect the creature with saws cutting into the skin with sounds that reminded me of being in an auto body shop working on a car while the creature is being torn apart to die… or is it? Impressive practical effects with significant blood and gore, exceptional editing and a respectable production design highlight this film that gives a wink to the military and politics, something that you don’t see too often in short films and if done this way, I wish they would do more.
A SPLINTER OF THE MIND’S EYE, written and directed by Steven Payne, is a tale regarding using secrets to make the one’s we love happy and how that can go horrifically wrong. When a guy finds the perfect girl, all he wants to do is make her happy. As his love struggles with the loss of her mother, she confides to him the absent memory of her father’s face who left when she was a child and what that loss has meant to her. In an attempt to help, our guy pulls an elaborate ruse involving buying a video camera, hiring an actor to pretend to be the girlfriend’s father, recording a farewell message on a VHS tape and placing the tape in Mom’s box of memories and “discovers” it for his girlfriend to watch and have closure. The results… are not what he intended or hoped for. While I had issues with a few things regarding the film, the surprise ending more than made up for it. The moral of the story; secrets can lead to revelations regarding other secrets that you may not want to be revealed.
Until next time ghosts and ghouls!
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– Cati Glidewell
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Regina Hall & Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans & Regina Hall on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Michael Tiddes & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Marlon Wayans on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Regina Hall & Anna Faris on the set of ‘Scary Movie.’ Credit: Paramount Pictures.
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