While a certain 1936 self-help book by Dale Carnegie may have sold over 30 million copies worldwide, many people would admit that establishing new friendships as an adult is far from easy, and when filmmaker Taylor Thompson was told in no uncertain terms he needed to find more friends, rather than reaching for a battered copy of the perennially popular tome decided to make a toe-curlingly awkward film about the subject instead. People Person is a superbly funny wild ride through the most wonderfully odd characters and situations, where you’ll find yourself exploding with laughter and cringing into yourself in equal measure. After his lacking friend roster was pointed out, Thomspon wasted no time forming the film’s script from every awkward social situation he could imagine, which he further exaggerated, then paired with a brilliant cringe-inducing turn from actor Joseph Schwartz and surprisingly found himself suddenly with friends (albeit temporary) and a completed short film!
- 5/14/2024
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
Stars: Peyton List, Tobin Bell, Lydia Hearst, Swen Temmel, Andrew Biernat, Nick Vallelonga, Ashley Atwood, Christa Collins, Christopher Corbin, Joseph Schwartz, Hamish Sturgeon | Written and Directed by Daniel Farrands
In recent years writer/director Daniel Farrands, who penned 1995’s Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (still a personal favourite in the franchise) has turned his hand to creating films about some of America’s most notorious serial killers – starting with 2018’s The Amityville Murders, following that up with writing and directing The Haunting of Sharon Tate in 2019 and directing The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson the same year. I’m not sure what Farrands’ obsession with such infamous cases is but it has resulted in films of varying quality, with the most-recent Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman easily the best of the bunch – mainly because Farrands told the story of Bundy as a literal boogeyman, playing up the horror elements...
In recent years writer/director Daniel Farrands, who penned 1995’s Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (still a personal favourite in the franchise) has turned his hand to creating films about some of America’s most notorious serial killers – starting with 2018’s The Amityville Murders, following that up with writing and directing The Haunting of Sharon Tate in 2019 and directing The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson the same year. I’m not sure what Farrands’ obsession with such infamous cases is but it has resulted in films of varying quality, with the most-recent Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman easily the best of the bunch – mainly because Farrands told the story of Bundy as a literal boogeyman, playing up the horror elements...
- 2/2/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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