Subject Two/New Frankenstein --

[peter johnson]

     The wife and I went to see a film that played only in Boulder & Chicago for a week & then will go direct to video -- "Subject Two" -- It was shot in Aspen, Colorado, by a bunch of acting geeks for around $30,000 --
     The director & sound & makeup people were all there in the theatre the night we went.  It's already won a Best Of award at the London Sci-Fi festival & an audience award at Sundance.  It looks really good & the amazing thing -- to me -- was that it was all shot, edited, and projected from a computer chip.  Now, I'd seen Digital/computer movies before on a big screen & whatever the hell they looked like, it sure wasn't film.   Bad videotape would be the best I would say --
     This thing was visually indistinguishable from 35mm or Super-16mm.
     At the very end of the movie, when the Frankenstein creation is trudging of into the snow to who knows where -- sort of like in the Mary Shelly original -- very briefly before the screen goes dark this little computer thing pops up/"Film over/off" -- Just like in Windows or something.  I was floored.
     Never mind that the movie is pretty good & has a good story & lots of "in" horror-movie references to other films -- Nosferatu, Dracula, all the Hammer Frankensteins, Motel Hell --, the degree to which non-film "film" has risen technically is nothing short of astounding.  These people made a film that looks like at least 3 or 4 million was spent & their outlay was about a 10th of that.
       Go to the website at www.subjecttwomovie.com and/or wait for the coming issue of Fangoria, where they're getting a 4 page spread in the middle --
     Anyway, really creative stuff by local yokels doing very well -- there is hope for us all --
peter johnson/denny crane

[Rombles]

Um, actually if it was made for $30000 and looks like $3mil, that is 1/100th, not 1/10th....  which makes it even more impressive.....

[peter johnson]

I only throw in Math and English errers to make sure 6 out of 5 people read my posts . . .
Yes, quite impressive -- good story/good acting/and nice plot twists --
peter crane/denny johnson