Erica Benedikty's Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments is the kind of film that should not work. A high concept science-fiction action film made on a $250 budget in 1994, Phobe is a marvel of the Diy spirit that astonishingly built itself into a Canadian TV staple over the last twenty years. This unique, low-budget passion project is the kind of film that we all look at and hear the little voice in our heads telling us, "I could do that", but very few of us ever do. Erica Benedikty did it, and the world is a richer place for her effort. Over the course of one long year of shooting, Benedikty wrote, shot, edited, and created visual FX for Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments. Benedikty had spent...
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- 10/23/2016
- Screen Anarchy
After airing all the way back in 1995, the Canadian sci-fi/horror TV film Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments from director Erica Benedikty is finally making its way to home video later this month. If only the damn Star Wars Holiday Special… Continue Reading →
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- 9/2/2016
- by David Gelmini
- DreadCentral.com
After languishing in obscurity for more than 20 years, outsider sci-fi film and Canadian cult classic Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments is making its way to home video, thanks to Severin films and its Intervision Picture Corp. label.
Shot on video in 1994, Phobe was directed by Erica Benedikty, a volunteer-turned-employee at Niagra, Ontario’s cable access station. “I got approved to do the movie, and then I got hired part-time as the master control operator,” Benedikty explained to The A.V. Club. “In my free time I was working on the movie. Making the movie led to [full-time] employment [at the station], but once the employment become full time, I stopped making the movie.”
The film itself a gloriously Diy riff on The Terminator and Predator, and showcases every bit of its $250 budget. With Phobe, Benedikty throws her hat in the ring as Canada’s answer to Don Dohler ...
Shot on video in 1994, Phobe was directed by Erica Benedikty, a volunteer-turned-employee at Niagra, Ontario’s cable access station. “I got approved to do the movie, and then I got hired part-time as the master control operator,” Benedikty explained to The A.V. Club. “In my free time I was working on the movie. Making the movie led to [full-time] employment [at the station], but once the employment become full time, I stopped making the movie.”
The film itself a gloriously Diy riff on The Terminator and Predator, and showcases every bit of its $250 budget. With Phobe, Benedikty throws her hat in the ring as Canada’s answer to Don Dohler ...
- 9/1/2016
- by Mike Vanderbilt
- avclub.com
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