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
@Frost2112Jack
World of Death is the web series that fans of independent horror have been waiting for. Featuring short horror films from all over the globe created by the largest variety of talent that a collection has ever been able to boast, WOD provides plenty of blood, guts, screams and laughs for all fans of the macabre. WOD is the perfect entertainment for a fan base constantly on the go. Watch it anywhere, at any time, for FREE! New episodes premiere the first Wednesday of every month at 10am CST.
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