{"id":26300,"date":"2017-09-15T03:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26300"},"modified":"2017-09-15T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T07:22:24","slug":"survivor-type-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/survivor-type-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor Type (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So you saw \u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d and were meh on it, but then you saw \u201cIT\u201d and were all over it.\u00a0 As \u201cMr. Mercedes\u201d is available for streaming and \u201cGerald\u2019s Game\u201d is coming soon, how else is a die hard Stephen King fan supposed to satiate their thirst, their need? Shorts, of course.\u00a0 After watching tons of Stephen King short film adaptations, one of them stands out head and shoulders above the rest and every fan should make it a point to find it and see it.<\/p>\n

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Writer\/director Billy Hanson took the story by Stephen King and adapted it into a short film.\u00a0 This is not the exceptional part as a few others have also adapted this story into short film form, but Hanson\u2019s is the one that is done the best and with chilling results, something the others watched did not quite achieve, or at least not on the same level.\u00a0 Here Hanson takes the story, writes it his own way but stays close enough to the material, and creates something that gets under the skin.\u00a0 Of course the source material is there for a lot, but as others have done adaptations and not reached this level of skin-crawling, this one has something special and it is most likely due to Billy Hanson\u2019s great talent.<\/p>\n

The cast is also there for a lot, mainly the lead Gideon Emery as Richard Pine, the shipwrecked man who will go to extremes to survive.\u00a0 His portrayal of the man slowly losing his mind and resorting to the unthinkable grabs the audience and doesn\u2019t let them go.\u00a0 The fact that he is alone for the majority of the film\u2019s runtime gives him a lot of time to make an impression and damn does he make one.\u00a0 His portrayal is, in short, amazing.\u00a0 He gives his character a lot of depth and nuances as his insanity grows and grows.\u00a0 The way he handles some seriously hard scenes is fantastic.<\/p>\n

Supporting him in a more direct way than the rest of the cast who we barely get to see are the special effects by Doug Murphy with visual effects by Jack Hamilton and Cole Jennerson.\u00a0 These effects are very important to the story and the fact that they still work 5 years later shows they were designed simply yet effectively, something that stays looking good longer than flashy, fashionable effects that often age horribly.\u00a0 The effects are just enough in your face to make each viewer feel a bit grossed out and thoroughly unnerved as the film advances and the lead\u2019s state gets worse and worse.<\/p>\n

Survivor Type is a simple story that is adapted in an unnerving way in this short.\u00a0 The story and its archetype is something seen many times before, however Survivor Type is one of the best cinematic versions out there.\u00a0 Billy Hanson took a specific story that has been adapted before and made something truly memorable out his version.\u00a0 The last scene of this short sends a shivers down the spine and makes the whole film stick in the viewer\u2019s mind long after it\u2019s over, something that is hard to do these days and is most appreciated by horror fans.\u00a0 Survivor Type is a short to look for and support in any way one can in the hopes Billy Hanson can unleash another spine-tingling short on the horror community\u2019s eyeballs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So you saw \u201cThe Dark Tower\u201d and were meh on it, but then you saw \u201cIT\u201d and were all over it.\u00a0 As \u201cMr. Mercedes\u201d is available for streaming and \u201cGerald\u2019s Game\u201d is coming soon, how else is a die hard Stephen King fan supposed to satiate their thirst, their need? Shorts, of course.\u00a0 After watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[64,302,477,501,938,982],"class_list":["post-26300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-stephen-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26302,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26300\/revisions\/26302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}