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Evil Has Fallen Far From the Father Tree. "Auteur" review!
Posted by The Evil Blogger on April 20, 2015
A failed filmmaker sets forth to claim is stake in fame by creating a documentary about a legendary horror director who disappeared during his latest highly anticipated masterpiece "Demonic." The filmmaker is hellbent on finding the director and discovering the truth on why the director had a melt down during filming and stole all the film's footage. After sitting down with various interviewees and finding the long lost director, this film has become notorious for it's dark background of death that surrounded some of the cast and crew and their families. The notion seems to becomes evident that "Demonic" should have never been made and that some films should never be released or else more peoples' lives would be in grave danger.
I surely wanted to believe that Cameron Romero had the same masterful skill set as his father George or also I wouldn't have mind if Cameron went into a total opposite direction of his zombie king father and create a whole new and eloquent horror genre that puts his name on the map. "Auteur" is my first look into Cameron Romero's work and my hopes hit the highest of ceilings and anxiousness and eagerness helped drive me to pop this disc into the player as soon as able to without interruption. Unfortunately, I found myself glancing through friends' comment walls on Facebook and watching various PornTube videos because I was so disappointingly bored with the result of "Autuer."
My heart knew something was amiss when Tom Sizemore headlines a movie and sure enough my heart was right and I should have been more perceptive to it's warnings. Now, I have a soft side for Sizemore; I enjoy the man's earlier work in Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, The Relic, and in Saving Private Ryan – all very great material – but Sizemore has lost his knack as of late. Also, Sizemore doesn't really have anything to do with headlining "Auteur." His runtime is no more than maybe 15 minutes tops and I swear he's reading off cue cards in the restaurant scenes with actor/producer BJ Hendricks playing the documentarian who's trying to make a documentary about "Demonic" in which Tom Sizemore stars in – got that? Sizemore is just a recognizable name to try and sell home entertainment units.
What really hurts "Auteur" is that it's too much of a talking head movie. Basically, BJ Hendricks drives around searching for Ian Hutton's character, the great director Charlie Buckwald, and does a number of interviews with cast and crew members along with other interviews with people who met Charlie outside the studio. Not until in the middle of Act three does the film get somewhat appealing with the levitation scene of Madeline Merritt's character Kate Rivers. There some scare appeal there that would have been nice if implemented perhaps through the rest of the movie.
What also could be construed about "Auteur" that would compare to most of his father work is that Cameron attempts to convey some social commentary about Hollywood and their stressed out, coming to a breaking point actors and directors losing their cool and jumping off the deep end into a psychotic break abyss and that there are directors and producers out in Hollywood that would jump the wagon to try and make a easy dollar by exploiting their downfall. Cameron, hypothetically, turns the table on the exploiter making this ambulance chaser pay with the story being more sinisterly deadly. In that regard and if that has any truth what Cameron was trying to accomplish, then I applaud him on successfully mocking Tinseltown.
No one should certainly take my word on whether one should watch Cameron Romero's "Auteur" or not, that's up to them. I only give my humble critique and my overall impression with the film had cold heartedly, but quietly, crushed my hopes in being something I would enjoy from the next generation of Romeros. But hey, Cameron's father had to start somewhere and build upon that and that is what I suspect Cameron will do as well. It's great to see that Cameron did give a little nod to his father in the DVD store scene – twice. You can buy "Auteur" from MVDVisual on DVD Home Entertainment on April 21st.
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