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Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Wrote His Own ‘Kong: Skull Island’ Honest Trailer
“It’s a movie that takes some of our best and most talented actors and gives them nothing resembling an arc.”
When director Jordan Vogt-Roberts fired a shot at CinemaSins and their “Everything Wrong With…” videos last month, he made it clear that his issue isn’t with critics saying negative things about his movies. Rather, he’s simply had enough of the kind of baseless, overly negative criticism that has one purpose and one purpose only: CLICKS.
Showing that he’s got a good sense of humor about the flaws of Kong: Skull Island, Vogt-Roberts teamed up with Screen Junkies for their Honest Trailer for the film. The video, just released today, gives Kong: Skull Island the traditional Honest Trailers treatment, but it also features a version written by Vogt-Roberts himself!
Vogt-Roberts primarily rips on the characters, specifically the fact that there are so many of them and very few get the chance to do, well, much of anything at all.
Hey, he’s not wrong. But we loved Kong: Skull Island all the same!
Before updating the video nasty Faces of Death, director Daniel Goldhaber and writer Isa Mazzei explored the dangers of online life in tech-thriller Cam, their feature debut that was acquired by Netflix in 2018 after making waves on the festival circuit.
At the end of last year, the Netflix exclusive quietly departed from the streaming platform, left without another streaming home.
It’s not an isolated story; Mike Flanagan’s Hush also left streaming entirely for a period until it was finally picked up on both physical media and other streaming services.
While the tech-thriller currently isn’t available to watch on Netflix, Tubi, Hulu, or any other platforms, that’s not a problem for Cam thanks to a very cool move by Goldhaber: the director has made his breakout film accessible to watch online for free via his website.
As his site notes: “CAM is unfortunately not currently available to view on any platforms, so you can watch it here if you like :).“
No subscriptions or fees necessary, just hit play.
Cam follows Alice (Madeline Brewer), who works as an online cam girl obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger.
Written by Mazzei, a former camgirl, it uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family, and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
For a deep dive into the treacherous world of Cam, listen to Horror Queers’ episode on it now.
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