So, you just got hold of a cheap digital camera and you asked your parents if you could film at their house and they said okay. Now you get five of your friends and ask them if they would like to be in your "movie" and they say, "But we've barely acted before", and you say, "It's cool, I'll just throw a script together and we'll wing it!" Now you have what seems to be the preparation for this thing.
The miniscule attempt at a plot for the first tale involves a guy and his new boyfriend trying to have a date night at his place in the country, adjacent to a cemetery. At first the guy tries to scare his boyfriend (completely unconvincingly) and the boyfriend gets a little jumpy, so the guy really tries to frighten him by telling him a cliche story about a killer who comes back from the dead if you say his name 5 times. The scriptwriter thinks it's funny or clever to reference other, far better, horror movies throughout. It doesn't work. A couple of male friends show up and try to scare the guys. After repetitive and drawn out scenes of this, it ends with one of the friends turning into a zombie and attacking one of the other guys. The two original guys disappear from the story at this point. The End.
This mess takes over an hour to play out, with people repeating lines verbatim, and the accompanying actions, throughout. There are long, and I mean long, pauses between characters saying their lines. This goes on through the whole thing. The camerawork is flat and amateurish, lots of shots with only one character in frame talking to the other character off camera, and herky-jerky camera movement. There are no special effects other than the guys who are playing zombies putting in contacts (ooh, scary!), and the acting ranges from subpar to wooden. Apparently the writer/director/producer thought that we needed a poor, low budget zombie flick with gay characters. We didn't.
There's a second 30 minute segment, having nothing to do with the first. I could barely watch it, I just fast forwarded through parts of it. It involves a guy killing his ill roommate then burying him. The dead guy shows back up in his sickbed and scares the guy, but not the viewer.
The miniscule attempt at a plot for the first tale involves a guy and his new boyfriend trying to have a date night at his place in the country, adjacent to a cemetery. At first the guy tries to scare his boyfriend (completely unconvincingly) and the boyfriend gets a little jumpy, so the guy really tries to frighten him by telling him a cliche story about a killer who comes back from the dead if you say his name 5 times. The scriptwriter thinks it's funny or clever to reference other, far better, horror movies throughout. It doesn't work. A couple of male friends show up and try to scare the guys. After repetitive and drawn out scenes of this, it ends with one of the friends turning into a zombie and attacking one of the other guys. The two original guys disappear from the story at this point. The End.
This mess takes over an hour to play out, with people repeating lines verbatim, and the accompanying actions, throughout. There are long, and I mean long, pauses between characters saying their lines. This goes on through the whole thing. The camerawork is flat and amateurish, lots of shots with only one character in frame talking to the other character off camera, and herky-jerky camera movement. There are no special effects other than the guys who are playing zombies putting in contacts (ooh, scary!), and the acting ranges from subpar to wooden. Apparently the writer/director/producer thought that we needed a poor, low budget zombie flick with gay characters. We didn't.
There's a second 30 minute segment, having nothing to do with the first. I could barely watch it, I just fast forwarded through parts of it. It involves a guy killing his ill roommate then burying him. The dead guy shows back up in his sickbed and scares the guy, but not the viewer.
