This is a dark comedy, but saying this is a dark comedy kind of undersells just how bleak it is. This movie is like if the Coen brothers made Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
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Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.' 2003
Friedkin had an uncommon talent for picking the right actors and letting them do their own thing, and apparently multiple shots in Live and Die in LA were just Friedkin telling the actors it was a rehearsal and then just using that take, or just letting scenes go on longer than was scripted and seeing what they'd do. This documentary has a lot of William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, and John Pankow talking about getting to work in this kind of…
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Charlotte's Net 2021
This is mostly not a horror movie, this is mostly a frame story for actual found snuff footage. This particular redacted cut has that visually removed. The actual horror elements (that is, fictional horror) are actually pretty well done, but the director is clearly using real snuff footage as a crutch here. I'll be interested to see if he moves on to a full length horror movie or keeps repackaging snuff movies.
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