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Dwellers (2021)
Wow! Amazing horror film made for $0...I was glued!!!!
Hi Folks! Wanted to review Dwellers today after I saw the negative reviews. Totally unfair!! And, NO!, Mr. Fortier is NOT my brother. HAHA.... Starts out like the film Creep, just a guy wanting to do a little filming and ends up...a dreadful way to go.
For someone interested in auteur and beginning filmmakers, Drew Fortier has put together a nice little horror picture...while the acting SEEMS a little campy sometimes, it pretty much is spot on. No overacting, and believable. Three guys go talking to some homeless (who relate their stories) about why some have disappeared, and the guys go down into an old water tunnel to get some interviews from the homeless. What could go wrong??
I liked the film My Dinner with Andre. Although Dwellers is a different genre, the simplicity and honesty of the acting is refreshing, just like Andre. From a production angle, Mr. Fortier got a lot of production value in his settings for no money at all, $0 spent. The actors were amateur, but that's good in a way. They wanted to be in the film and did well! I have seen much better financed films that left me with no feeling.
Dwellers is a cerebral film. It's about 3 guys lapsing into desperation and weariness...and about a problem in the towns' tunnels that seemingly everyone wants to ignore. Dwellers got under my skin; thank you Mr. Fortier.
Just a note, Mr. Fortier made a documentary called, Attack of Life: The Bang Tango Movie, about his band in 2016. Probably to his shock, the film was never able to get clearance release because the song catalog is tied up by some suits in Los Angeles. To his credit, Mr. Fortier has made the film free to all on Youtube. This is a director who WANTS others to enjoy his art. Dwellers is the next proof of that. See it, sip it, dread the dark.
Quartz Vein (2021)
Campy double cross!
Great fun, if you know what to expect from a Jared Masters film! It's the 60s/70s all over again!!! A seriously funny movie about a futuristic gold prospector who wants to free a maiden held by aliens. No more plot for you, watch it!
Now, let's get SERIOUS. Mr. Masters makes the type of film he WANTS to make....and YOU need to be happy with that! Because no one does it better. His camera work is all handheld or tripod; he does it all himself. I've seen most of his films, and they are titillating. Yes, scantily clad women tastefully filmed in a fantasy-type setting usually, always casting very beautiful (and talented) starlets.
Let's go a little deeper.... Mr. Masters has written a book on filmmaking (The Cinematic Equation), a deeply complex book of poetry (under J. Riddles, I Don't Hear America Singing), screenplays, photography, you name it! His seeming flaw is s... addiction, which may or may not guide his subject matter...who cares? It's great art!
Back to the film, buy the DVD, add it to your collection, and when you just want to veg out, sit back and enjoy!