A Hollywood filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) makes a short for an evil film
Director: Mike Jittlov
Writers: Mike Jittlov, Richard Kaye & Deven Chierighino (additional dialogue)
Stars: Mike Jittlov, Richard Kaye, Paige Moore, Deven Chierighino, Steve Brodie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081766/
Watched online, poor print.
7 songs in the Soundtracks, no performers listed, but performers sang (most of) the songs.
Another cautionary tale about the horrors of H'wood/filmmaking. I crossed out "studio" because we didn't meet the whole studio. We only know the one producer was unscrupulous.
Watching and listening to this was a chore. The humor comes from bitterness about the system. We get a lengthy sequence about crew union requirements, and several more mentions about what can/not be done by union/non personnel. The film gets louder and more frenetic as it goes along. Watching this felt like being a frog in a pot of water on the stove, not realizing how hot it's getting until it's too late.
I can only imagine the audience for this is aspiring special effects "wizards" and other film folk. Lots of techo jargon, little insight into how anything is done except stop-motion.
IMDb trivia: "The film features an independent filmmaker (Mike Jittlov) playing an independent filmmaker, a producer (Richard Kaye) playing a producer and an actress (Paige Moore) playing an actress." Id est: Amateur night in Cahuenga.
Awful. Painful. Miserable. Might should be a 4.
Rated 6.8 by almost 1.8k IMDb voters.
indie, dir. Jittlov; 5-
