Friday, September 12, 2014

"The Editor" (Kennedy & Brooks, Canada)

A parody and homage all at once, this horror throwback recreates the vibe of early Argento films like Suspiria.  A film editor who is missing the fingers on one hand due to a film splicing incident years before is the prime suspect in a series of brutal murders.  As the horror films he edits begin to resemble the bloody deaths around him, we begin to question what is reality and what's in his head.

Or something.  I dunno.  The first 50 minutes was clever and stylish but after a while the intentionally lame jokes and the intentionally bad dubbing just got kinda tired.  Supposedly the original idea was to do a fake trailer.  I probably would have loved that.  But at 100+ minutes after midnight the joke stopped being funny and I ended up just nodding off.

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