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Inside (2002)
Inside
I saw this short at the San Francisco Film Festival in 2002. I can't believe that Trevor Sands hasn't made lots of features - I was surprised to learn from IMDb he already did one in 1994. Why is he back to doing shorts - after an interval of 7 years when nothing happened? In 8 minutes, Inside is every bit as good and every bit as surprising as Identity, the James Mangold-Michael Mooney collaboration. The subject is multiple personality disorder, vividly dramatized as never before; the title has a double meaning. To say more would be to spoil the experience. I hope it becomes available on video, and that the filmmaker gets another feature greenlit soon.
Attack of the Bat Monsters (1999)
Attack of the Bat Monsters
Kelly Green's first feature is a thinly-disguised account of the making of a Roger Corman three-day quicky back in the 50s. Fans of the life and legend of Corman, and of Z-movies in general, will not only have a rollicking time - they'll probably have heard some of the tales that went into the making of this appropriately low-budget answer to Tim Burton's Ed Wood. Those who aren't fans will simply enjoy the ingenuity and wit of this tribute to a style of filmmaking that produced classics like The Day the World Ended and Attack of the Crab Monsters, the REAL quicky about telepathic man-eating giant crabs whose title is lovingly evoked here. Funniest single gag: the one about the B-girls and the duct tape. Funniest running gag: a prior opus, The Snake Woman, produced by the same company, the very mention of which makes everyone in the picture turn white with fear and shame - something really horrible must have happened on that one. If there's any justice in the world, someone will give Greene the money to film a prequel about the making of The Snake Woman so we can find out just what it was. Anyone have 18 bucks?