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Fantastic Fest Review: Selected Shorts #2
Filed under: Animation », Horror », Independent », Sci-Fi & Fantasy », Theatrical Reviews », Shorts », Fantastic Fest », Cinematical Indie »
Here's another batch of shorts that are screening at Fantastic Fest in Austin this week in front of many of the festival's feature films. (I've already written about one batch.) I've had the most fun watching all the shorts -- I'd forgotten how much I enjoy a film that resolves itself in less than 15 minutes. There are still so many shorts I hope to see during the festival and wasn't able to review beforehand, like Les Petits Hommes Vieux, It Came from the West and In the Wall. The festival programmers have told us so many times how sick and appalling Gary's Touch is, that I'm simultaneously warning myself away and feeling like I ought to give it a shot.
Burger Massacre 2: The King Strikes Back
Filed under: Comedy », Horror », Shorts »
Two of the more entertaining indie horror flicks I've seen recently are Ryan Schifrin's Abominable and Adam Green's Hatchet. And after meeting both knuckleheads at Austin's Fantastic Fest, I can safely state that these guys are horror nerds on par with the guys who run Fangoria, Bloody-Disgusting and Weinberg's Own Brain. These guys know the body count from Friday 3, the DP on Elm Street 4, and what the hell actually happened at the end of Halloween 5. So when I saw that these two gorehounds had collaborated on a short film called King in the Box, I just knew I had to check it out.The story is about one particular junk food mascot who earns the unholy wrath of a second drive-thru deity -- and the result is pretty darn amusing. The short is a comedy, to be sure, although I have a sneaky suspicion that the terror-fans might get a nice goofy kick out of the thing as well. And while the mini-movie does get a little gory towards the end, it's nothing that wouldn't clean up with a medium Coke and a super-sized fries.
(Unfortunately it looks like Mr. Green's official website was unable to withstand all the traffic, so I'll offer you an alternate link ... at YouTube, of course.)
And, of course, Happy Halloween.
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