(DVD AVAILABLE – FALL, 2009) FOR REEL 1 FOLLOW THIS URL: www.youtube.com Screened: *Bushwick Film Festival 2009* *Eightfold Film Festival 2009* *2009 New Vision Cinema Series @ AKA Potion* *The Archive Cafe Short Film Festival* Synopsis: When John (Shane Sheehy), an ambitious film student, shoots on an abandoned lot, he disturbs a demonic force that possesses his 16mm film and starts devouring his fellow peers in the bowels of the college film department. Now it’s up to John to dispel the evil, save the world and make the final cut. Story Behind The Film: ‘Evil Film’ is the product of a simple camera malfunction. Originally I’d planned to shoot a sci-fi film in vain of ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ about a man being chased by an ambiguous cult conspiracy. I started principle photography, on location, to film the last sequences first. Little did I realize, it was the beginning of the end. When I had the 5 rolls I’d shot developed, I was crushed to find out that a pressure plate malfunction in the camera caused my film to come back, useless. I couldn’t afford to re-shoot, so I abandoned the project completely and started from scratch. So as time rolled by, I drafted a sort of pseudo-doc about how my original project failed, but my friends and professors found it grim and sub-par–as did I. But when it came time to get things moving, I felt like the film I was trying to make, whatever it was, was eating me alive… and so, you basically have ‘Evil …
Video Rating: 5 / 5