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[World of Death] March Features Horror Shorts “The Guy” and “Headhunter(s)”
Hola, amigos! Welcome back to the World of Death! It’s been a while since I rapped at ya but there’s been a whole lot of craziness going on.
First up we have The Guy, written, starring, and directed by Jon Fusco. The knee-jerk reaction to The Guy is that it’s slick and dreamlike… as long as you’re the type of person that has really obtuse dreams where your mother (played by Tara Westwood from The Grudge reboot) commands you to touch Jerry’s fish. I’ll be completely honest with you readers, this is your old boy Pat O coming at you with some real talk – dream logic movies can sometimes rub me the wrong way. Forsaking a cohesive narrative, jarring performances, and scattershot dialogue either works or it doesn’t. Thankfully an overabundance of wood paneling in the set design of The Guy made me feel like I was tripping balls in the Midwestern basements of my youth, so I’ll give it a pass. Long story short, The Guy is a trippy, heady, very Lynchian good time, but it could have used more werewolves.
And now for something completely different!
This month’s second film, Headhunter(s), courtesy of Dillon Brown and Horror Nerd Productions, opens with a rather inexpensive sex worker in a pair of fishnets. I don’t know the exact circumstances behind its production, but I’d bet dollars to donuts this is a student film because it reminds me of every student film I ever shot in the parking lot of the community college I went to. Despite the apparent low budget, the practical FX in Headhunter(s) are solid and it’s a fun little 5-minute ride so check it out!
That’s all for this month. Meet us back here in April for another foray into the World of Death. Rock over London, Rock on Chicago!
– Pat O’Sullivan
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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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