It looks like the inmates are taking over
The Asylum, as visual FX supervisor Joe Lawson is given the opportunity to helm
his first feature-length film, NAZIS AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH. The company
seems to thrive on negative attention, and in making a film which features a
ghoulish Dr. Joseph Mengele (played convincingly by Christopher Karl Johnson)
looking to unlock the secrets of genetic regeneration to bring on the Fourth
Reich they’ve certainly gotten it heaped on them. The question is, do they
deserve it?
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One of the interesting developments in the
online indie world has been crowdfunding – basically going out to the global
audience of the internet and making a pitch for their money to fund your
project. Two real leaders have emerged in this arena, 
I’ve only watched the film in its entirety
twice, before writing this. I’ve seen a lot of horror movies. I’ve seen a lot
of indie and homemade horror movies that try really hard to shock and freak out
the viewer with extreme gore or violence. What is special to me about the
SOCIAL MEDIA MASSACARE series and this episode (“From the Heart”) in particular,
is how uncomfortable it made me before I ever saw a drop of blood.
I’m of the generation that remembers
when WIRED predicted we’d be ditching our TV sets for shows
broadcast on the internet exclusively. It seemed a far-off
proposition in those early days of the web when most internet video
looked like a slideshow on our meagre dial-up connections and
television shows still dominated our daily entertainment.
Films can sustain an audience on a good story, good
characters and a solid premise. We enjoy films best when we want to suspend our
disbelief and actively want to buy in to what the filmmakers are showing us, while forgiving technical limitations and other foibles if our goodwill has been
purchased with compelling hooks and smart setup.
