Butterfly Kisses
- 2018
- 1h 31m
A director discovers a box of videotapes showing the creepy film project of two students that stars a local horror legend.A director discovers a box of videotapes showing the creepy film project of two students that stars a local horror legend.A director discovers a box of videotapes showing the creepy film project of two students that stars a local horror legend.
- Awards
- 2 wins
- Girl on Street
- (as June Keating)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe viral marketing campaign for this film was so successful that the "Blink Man" legend was included in a book on local folktales, called Haunted Ellicott City by Shelley Davies Wygant. After the book was published, director Erik Kristopher Myers reached out to the author to let her know that he had concocted the legend as a marketing campaign for the film. Despite Myers' concern that she would be angry, Wygant said that, "I thought it was genius."
- Quotes
Sophia Crane: My name is Sophia Crane. It's March 3rd, 2004. I'm a film student, and this is my senior thesis. I don't know how much longer I'm going to be alive, so I ask whoever finds this, please apply the first and second halves of this final interview to the beginning and end of my film. You'll know where to make the cut. This is the story of Peeping Tom, and how I went looking for him. Please show this to my parents. I don't know how much longer I can go without blinking.
Overall, this was an interesting and somewhat chilling effort. As with the majority of these kinds of films, the fact that the central premise of the project is based on a creepy concept works nicely. The central core of the local legend, a hooded figure that appears out of a local tunnel after performing a specific ritual and then begins to haunt the individual based on the ritual, is the kind of story that easily fits within a small-town urban legend that would exist. The manner in which this springs out of the film into their world as his obsession to get to the truth about the strange phenomenon he's filming soon grows to incredibly lengths due to the desire to get the adulation for having been proven true through the guise of several familiar and effective jump scenes regarding the figure as it seems to appear in their footage. There's plenty of unnerving and chilling work of the creature throughout here as the concept for its appearance offers several chilling encounters. Likewise, the other exceptionally enjoyable aspect of this one is a truly fascinating look at the concept of found-footage verses the documentary. As the filmmaker attempting the original project rightfully observes, the original footage in the truest context of the word is found-footage yet the documentary he is making clearly isn't so his claims about them being otherwise clearly is false. That this is in turn being covered by a documentary film crew exploring the realization of the original tapes brings the entire concept into a wonderfully meta conception invoking the commonly-known concept of the director letting the audience see only what he wants you too which allows the lines between reality and fantasy to get blurred as he begins to spiral out of control in an effort to get people to believe the truth about his project. This is what drives the final half of the film and is what really holds this one up. This one does have some flaws to it. The majority problem here is the fact that the majority of the documentary is about the arrogant, self-righteous filmmaker who alienates everyone around him, thinks everyone has to bow down to him for what he's found and has to be the authority on the matter at every situation. Whenever he gets any kind of negative feedback or even just general criticism about truly genuine issues here, the first response that it's not seen as a masterpiece results in a crybaby breakdown that's entirely unappealing to sit through and just makes him entirely unlikable. As well, there's also the fact that the film drops off the boogeyman entirely instead by focusing on the guy which drops off the horror elements entirely as these tactics are brought out. These here are what holds this one back overall.
Rated R: Graphic Language and Violence.
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- Mar 7, 2019
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1