Reading a old issue of UK film magazine The Dark Side,I noticed a review for a off-beat sounding Comedy Horror film. Having recently signed up to Netflix, I got set to discover the monster behind the monster.
View on the film:
Unearthing a TV Horror special not seen since it originally aired, director Daniel Gray Longino & cinematographer Carl Herse record a loving pastiche to British TV Costume Drama's of the past, with hilarious sight gags of the actors all standing in one line,and saying their lines down the camera,rather than face to face, along with wonky special effects causing the walls of the set to shake, all topped by a spoof of a famous Orson Welles commercial being poured over the final.
Whilst the ending is rather abrupt, Longino sands over it with a real attention to detail in creating the same flat, fuzzy, recorded on video appearance of old UK TV Costume Dramas, complete with wobbly camera panning shots,and zoom-ins jolting to a close-up.
Bringing John Levenstein's witty fake documentary (not Found Footage) script to life, David Harbour gives a fantastic performance as himself and his dad (!), with Harbour nodding to Orson Welles,both in the tone of his fathers voice, and the serious manner in which he treats the pulpy rubbish of meeting Frankenstein's monster,monster.
View on the film:
Unearthing a TV Horror special not seen since it originally aired, director Daniel Gray Longino & cinematographer Carl Herse record a loving pastiche to British TV Costume Drama's of the past, with hilarious sight gags of the actors all standing in one line,and saying their lines down the camera,rather than face to face, along with wonky special effects causing the walls of the set to shake, all topped by a spoof of a famous Orson Welles commercial being poured over the final.
Whilst the ending is rather abrupt, Longino sands over it with a real attention to detail in creating the same flat, fuzzy, recorded on video appearance of old UK TV Costume Dramas, complete with wobbly camera panning shots,and zoom-ins jolting to a close-up.
Bringing John Levenstein's witty fake documentary (not Found Footage) script to life, David Harbour gives a fantastic performance as himself and his dad (!), with Harbour nodding to Orson Welles,both in the tone of his fathers voice, and the serious manner in which he treats the pulpy rubbish of meeting Frankenstein's monster,monster.