This year’s Buffalo International Film Festival offered a program of horror films that opened with Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho. Shooting April, the first narrative feature by Tod Lancaster ends the evening. The film follows in a tradition spawned by Blair Witch Project, and copied countless times by quasi point-of-view “documentary” horror films, one of which is probably made in every undergraduate introduction to filmmaking.
The interesting thing regarding Shooting April is how complicit we are: our presence empowers the filmmaker and more than once I had considered walking out. I wish I had, the film does not earn the brutality it closes on simply because we have made enemies of all that are present – we are in the company of unlikable date rapists all around.
Shooting April is a pseudo documentary that provides us a group of guys who perform stunts for a website. Whereas we like the homoerotic...
The interesting thing regarding Shooting April is how complicit we are: our presence empowers the filmmaker and more than once I had considered walking out. I wish I had, the film does not earn the brutality it closes on simply because we have made enemies of all that are present – we are in the company of unlikable date rapists all around.
Shooting April is a pseudo documentary that provides us a group of guys who perform stunts for a website. Whereas we like the homoerotic...
- 10/15/2010
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
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