Review by Roger Carpenter
What do you get when you mix a bunch of Swedish horror film fans with little film experience and no money but a great deal of gumption? Why, Evil Ed, of course!
Evil Ed is both a tale of horror as well as a tale of stick-to-it-ness that all aspiring filmmakers should hear, and both are equally entertaining. Some Swedish kids who grew up on American horror films courtesy of the first video boom and who shared a common goal of making a film that could play in theaters started experimenting with the tools of the trade. Their first feature was never actually completed before they ran out of steam, but the nucleus of that group, Anders Jacobsen, Goran Lundstrom, and “Doc,” moved right into what would become Evil Ed. They took the nucleus of a story, about a docile, henpecked film editor forced to cut...
What do you get when you mix a bunch of Swedish horror film fans with little film experience and no money but a great deal of gumption? Why, Evil Ed, of course!
Evil Ed is both a tale of horror as well as a tale of stick-to-it-ness that all aspiring filmmakers should hear, and both are equally entertaining. Some Swedish kids who grew up on American horror films courtesy of the first video boom and who shared a common goal of making a film that could play in theaters started experimenting with the tools of the trade. Their first feature was never actually completed before they ran out of steam, but the nucleus of that group, Anders Jacobsen, Goran Lundstrom, and “Doc,” moved right into what would become Evil Ed. They took the nucleus of a story, about a docile, henpecked film editor forced to cut...
- 7/3/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
by Jason Lees, MoreHorror.com
Growing up, part of the attraction to genre movies was the “how’d they do that?” factor. You’d be watching Fright Night and wonder how they got Evil Ed to transform from wolf to human, or marvel at what damage Mr. Krueger was doing to the kids of Elm Street. Today we have CGI, so some of the magic is gone, but there was a time when you’d spend more time trying to figure out the trick rather than watching the movie.
Sometimes the effects, more than the actors, were the stars. In some director’s hands, that was fine. It was part of the experience to try and figure out how they got a head to blow up on cue or to spot the strings behind a flying piranha. It was part of the fun.
Some directors, however, didn’t give us...
Growing up, part of the attraction to genre movies was the “how’d they do that?” factor. You’d be watching Fright Night and wonder how they got Evil Ed to transform from wolf to human, or marvel at what damage Mr. Krueger was doing to the kids of Elm Street. Today we have CGI, so some of the magic is gone, but there was a time when you’d spend more time trying to figure out the trick rather than watching the movie.
Sometimes the effects, more than the actors, were the stars. In some director’s hands, that was fine. It was part of the experience to try and figure out how they got a head to blow up on cue or to spot the strings behind a flying piranha. It was part of the fun.
Some directors, however, didn’t give us...
- 4/23/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
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