d./w./p. various;
cast: Jason Impey, Jessica Hunt, Martynna Madej, Martin W Payne, Donna Hamblin,
Luc Bernier, Kieran Johnston, Daiane Azura, Dean Allem, Clare Crumpton, Simon
London, Suzy Weatherall, Adam Jones
This found footage flatpack anthology from Trash Arts is
distinguished by Jason Impey’s contribution ‘Case 019684’ which takes up most
of the first half-hour. Stock footage of Impey as his ‘Jack Hess’ snuff
film-maker character is combined with clips from his parents’ home movies,
documenting Jason/Jack’s life from baby to boy to accomplished and busy indie
horror film-maker/psychopath. The result is an extraordinary quasi-auto-biopic,
structurally somewhere between Boyhood
and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock,
which deserves to be extended to feature length. The remaining 60 minutes is
the usual mishmash, the highlights being Sam Mason Bell’s ‘Scratchy Eyes’
(which uniquely manages to misspell its own title!), an effective silent, fake
super-8 film of an 8th birthday with a creepy supernatural clown
lurking at the back of shot; Stephen Longhurst’s ‘The Watcher’, a short, rural
take on The Last Horror Movie; and
Adam Jones’ vampire sketch ’The Interview’. Other contributions either drag on
far too long or are barely there at all.
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