{"id":30447,"date":"2019-02-12T18:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30447"},"modified":"2019-02-12T18:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:52:57","slug":"shorts-round-up-of-the-week-2-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/shorts-round-up-of-the-week-2-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts Round Up of the Week: 2\/12\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Most of the time we get such a backlog of short films and feature length indie films that we work hard to take them all on and review them before the year is up. In \u201cShorts Round Up of the Week\u201d we review a round up of short films of varying quality.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to submit your short film for review consideration, submissions are always opened to filmmakers and producers.<\/p>\n

This week<\/strong> we have a trio of shorts from Chris McInroy, a psychotic tattoo artist, and the tale of a walking baby.<\/p>\n

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Bad Guy #2 (2014)
\n<\/strong>Director Chris McInroy completely rethinks the whole gangster tropes by looking at the life of the number two henchmen in every mobster movie. When a local mob boss has had enough of his cronies failing to catch a killer, he kills his number two and number three becomes the new number two. Now under pressure to stay alive by his girlfriend, Bad Guy #2 has to look for the killer, and things get wet and gory. \u201cBad Guy #2\u201d is a very funny and very clever horror comedy, and one that\u2019s covered in wet gooey gore and grue. McInroy almost never wastes an opportunity to show off the great effects by Doug Field and Susan Benson, including head shots, knifes to the face, maimings, and a thug even melts to death after an acid mishap. \u201cBad Guy #2\u201d is mostly for the gorehounds, but if you like some genuinely funny gore gags that will make you giggle to yourself, along with top notch acting, this is a great short film.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Complications of a Walking Baby (2014)
\n<\/strong>I\u2019ll just say it: I don\u2019t know what writer \/ director Jason Erickson\u2019s short film is about, if anything. I guess, deep down, there\u2019s some kind of message about fitting in, or the cruelty of the real world. I don\u2019t know. Maybe it\u2019s all one big story that leads up to the final scene about giving birth. I don\u2019t know. All I know is there\u2019s a tale of a baby who could walk who was sad about being called a baby. So he cuts out a paper mask of an Asian woman and suddenly it\u2019s accepted as a person. Until it meets an injured woman and, it kind of trails off from there. The whole film is played with a straight face, and it\u2019s presented with an arthouse gloss, but I don\u2019t know what it all means. Maybe it\u2019s just being bizarre for the sake of bizarre? I just ended the film with a furrowed brow and a confused shrug. People need love. We\u2019ll go with that. That\u2019s what the movie means.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Death Metal (2016)
\n<\/strong>Chris McInroy knows how to make stupid a lot of fun and with \u201cDeath Metal\u201d his talent is on full display. In fact, the premise has a lot of potential to be a feature length horror comedy. \u201cDeath Metal\u201d centers on Lars, an aspiring death metal rock star who flops whenever he performs in the park. When he learns from his uncle that he\u2019s the son of Satan, he\u2019s given his dad\u2019s cursed Guitar. There are three specific rules he must follow or else. Of course Lars is so eager he ignores everything he\u2019s warned about and begins playing the park. Almost immediately things go awry and the gore begins to ooze all over the screen. The key to \u201cDeath Metal\u201d is the absurd gore and grue, and McInroy goes whole hog with severed limbs, decapitations, and yes, even children get maimed. \u201cDeath Metal\u201d is fun and hilarious, and another great horror comedy outing from Chris McInroy.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Tattooist (2018)
\n<\/strong>A micro-short by Michael Wong, \u201cThe Tattooist\u201d is a kind of a pseudo-trailer and spec film for a potential horror movie that could promise to be quite wonky and chaotic. Wong\u2019s \u201cThe Tattooist\u201d is a great premise where a tattoo artist subjects his victims to becoming the victims of his masterpieces, and in the process they have to figure out how to escape his grasp. I think \u201cThe Tattooist\u201d could work as a great indie horror film, especially with Michael Wong\u2019s creative direction and use of colors and moments of pure gore and terror. It could lend a new angle of fear to a classic trade, much in the way \u201cThe Dentist\u201d did in the nineties. A winner at Canada’s Bloody Horror International Film Festival, Horrorhaus Film Festival in LA, Canada’s Terror in the Bay Film Festival and with multiple wins at Diabolical Horror Film Festival, I look forward to seeing how this project evolves.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We Summoned a Demon (2017)
\n<\/strong>Director Chris McInroy returns for his third outing with frequent collaborator Kirk Johnson. This time he appears as geek with friend Carlos (Played by other recurring McInroy collaborator Carlos Larote) hoping to enact a spell that will turn his character Kirk cool. After failing to do so by brutally slaughtering a chicken, they accidentally unearth a merciless demon that rises from the floor with mysterious intentions. The centerpiece for \u201cWe Summoned a Demon\u201d this time is the excellent demon make up. While the gore is up to McInroy\u2019s usual standards of splatter and slime, the demon looks very much like a demonic Jester, and he is a formidable villain brought to life with some fun special effects. I liked the whole concept behind the short, and would love a feature film version of this down the line. While McInroy\u2019s previous films were more gory gags, \u201cWe Summoned a Demon\u201d has bigger potential for more characters and twisted terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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