{"id":44331,"date":"2024-06-25T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44331"},"modified":"2024-06-25T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T04:23:01","slug":"consumer-2023-chattanooga-film-festival-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/25\/consumer-2023-chattanooga-film-festival-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer (2023) [Chattanooga Film Festival 2024]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CONSumer-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CONSumer-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CONSumer-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CONSumer-1-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/CONSumer-1-1x1.jpg 1w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>So Long and Thanks for All the Dangerous Visions Shorts Block<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wish we could have gotten a longer format version of \u201cConsumer,\u201d as Matthew Fisher\u2019s horror tale is ripe for feature film potential. \u201cConsumer\u201d watches like a segment from \u201cCreepshow\u201d even packing in a wonderful synthesized score by Bethany Farnsworth, respectively. I loved the low tech, mid-eighties revenge tale that director Fisher creates, as it\u2019s old fashioned enough, but never feels dated, or dull.<\/p>\n<p>It works well within its short run time and offers some scary ambiguity in the end.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nate Ridgeway is very good as Matt, a young aspiring artist who spends his days at his local mall. After being tormented by his local bullies, he stops off at a mysterious game store where the owner offers him a free copy of the MS-DOS game \u201cConsumer.\u201d What he thinks is a wish fulfillment horror game for his PC, slowly turns in to creeping horror as Matt realizes there\u2019s more to his gameplay than meets the eye. Director Fisher props up a movie that\u2019s packed with some great themes, and a classic revenge tale, but he also doles some old fashioned nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the traditional schoolyard bullies, there\u2019s also the revenge tale that felt straight out of 1981\u2019s \u201cEvilspeak.\u201d Fisher knows how to pack on wonderful eighties aesthetic and pulls back when it comes to really giving us an idea of the film\u2019s somewhat creepy supernatural evil. A lot of it depends on the fear of the unknown and I\u2019m glad we\u2019re never quite given a clear cut idea of what Matt is dealing with, or why he\u2019s chosen to handle this unusual artifact known as \u201cConsumer.\u201d I\u2019d love to see more from Matthew Fisher as he has an interesting visual flair always welcome in the horror genre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This year, The Chattanooga Film Festival runs from <\/strong><strong>June 21<sup>st<\/sup> through 28<sup>th<\/sup> (June 21<sup>st<\/sup> &#8211; 23<sup>rd<\/sup> In-Person, and June 21<sup>st<\/sup>-28<sup>th<\/sup> Virtually)<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Long and Thanks for All the Dangerous Visions Shorts Block I wish we could have gotten a longer format version of \u201cConsumer,\u201d as Matthew Fisher\u2019s horror tale is ripe for feature film potential. \u201cConsumer\u201d watches like a segment from \u201cCreepshow\u201d even packing in a wonderful synthesized score by Bethany Farnsworth, respectively. I loved the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1284,12],"tags":[1490,477,501,703,840,906,938],"class_list":["post-44331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-festivalsevents","category-movie-reviews","tag-dark-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-revenge","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44331","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44334,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44331\/revisions\/44334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}