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Escape From Tomorrow (2013)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 27, 2013, 7:56 pm
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[center]Escape From Tomorrow
Trailer
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ5LyR8lEf4
I tried posting this last month, but the trailer was pulled for
obvious reasons. Not sure I'd say this is a movie that I'd ever
see in the theater, but I will definitely check it out once it
hits DVD.
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Re: Escape From Tomorrow (2013)
By: Mac Date: October 10, 2013, 12:09 pm
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a review...
[quote]Posted by Patrick-Cooper
Witnessing a man’s descent into madness would be terrifying
enough. Seeing it play out within the plastic confines of Walt
Disney World is an absolute nightmare. If for some reason you
haven’t heard about it by now, Escape From Tomorrow is the
audacious directorial debut from Randy Moore, shot almost
entirely on location in Disney World – without permission. The
fact that him and his crew covertly pulled it off under these
conditions is something to be applauded. The stones on these
guys, huh? Luckily, their ingenious guerrilla film is pretty
damn good too.
It’s also hard to describe. Set on the final day of the White
family’s Disney vacation, Escape From Tomorrow focuses on their
patriarch, Jim (Roy Abramson), and his slippery grip on reality.
Man, is he having a rough day. In the morning he’s fired from
his job and his bratty son locks him out on the hotel balcony.
He keeps his termination a secret from his wife Emily (Elena
Schuber – who looks remarkably like Linda Hamilton) while they
head out for the last day in the park with the kids, Elliot and
Sara. They hit up the familiar rides, including It’s a Small
World, which is where Jim starts to become truly unhinged.
Did the little animatronic characters just snarl at him? Did his
wife really just say she hated him? Why do Elliot’s eyes look
like the abyss?!
Disney and its denizens quickly begin to tear Jim’s psyche
apart. He repeatedly encounters a menacing obese man in a
wheelchair who cackles at his misfortune. A park nurse warns him
of a lethal virus going around. A mysterious woman lures him
into her “presidential suite.” And then there’s the two pieces
of Parisian jailbait that Jim stalks through the park. They’re
sorta like harbingers of doom that completely entrance him in a
very uncomfortable manner. Keep it in your pants, Jim.
As these bizarre characters torment him, Disney iconography
swirls in the background. Obvious green screen is used for the
scenes that weren’t filmed in the park. These shots sometimes
disturb the visual flow of the production, which overall has an
untidy feel to it. Considering the guerrilla-style filming
though, you gotta cut them some slack. The acting is great –
especially from the kids, surprisingly – and Roy Abramson hams
it up enough to give Escape From Tomorrow a B-movie vibe, which
is totally appropriate here. The filmmakers may have been taking
on Disney, but they don’t take it too seriously.
There’s an obvious subtext that the aggressive friendliness of
Disney and the glossy illusion it presents are enough to drive
anyone crazy. Besides one haphazardly bleeped out moment,
“Disney” is never spoken aloud. They do go right for the throat
of the Siemens Corporation – a technology innovator that
sponsors Epcot. How powerful corporations like Disney and
Siemens can defile a human being is one thing the film certainly
drives home. And Moore had the balls to shoot right on their
turf.
By doing so, Escape From Tomorrow acts as one giant middle
finger to corporate oppression. The most upsetting moment is
saved for the final minutes of the film, which I won’t spoil
here. It’s a shocking image that’s also one of the most
effective horror moments I’ve seen this year. The whole final 20
minutes are a carousel of terror in which the lines of reality
and imagination are completely blurred. Whether all of the
pieces and characters we’ve seen totally add up doesn’t matter.
What matters is that Moore, his crew, and the actors made this
goddamn movie and by some unholy miracle, it’s being released.
This one’s got cult status written all over it.
Escape From Tomorrow hits theaters, VOD, and iTunes October
11.[/quote]
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Re: Escape From Tomorrow (2013)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: October 10, 2013, 12:53 pm
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Can't wait to see this for myself. Thanks for the post.
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