: This movie is so good. It's like one of those '80s Italian horror movies, but it's different because it doesn't suck.
"Off Season"
Director/Writer Keating also wrote and directed another favorite of mine, the 2015 horror film, "Darling".
: my second-favorite arrangement of The Theme
: The Definite Article and still my favorite
: ...I gave it to him. They made the film much shorter (83mins. instead of 1hr. 3mins.) than the as-per-shooting-script cut, and that improved it a lot. But when things are poorly shot, have poor sound, and all, it's like trying to make a house our of bad lumber. - What E and his editors managed was yeoman's work, I think they call it. He knows better going into the next production. That said, its good he had this experience on his first picture. It's a pain he'll remember and be careful for.
: ...real crackerjack editors, one we hired and the other that's a friend of E's wife. But damn.
The hustler-director rewrote a third of the script, didn't bother much with lighting interiors with anything other that Kliegs, didn't either block or frame shots beyond "Stand here" and "Camera over there", didn't devise/use a shot list, didn't keep a shot log, and had actors with mics or booms only maybe 75% of the time. - They rogered Eliot but good.
He asked for me straight-up opinion, and...
54 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.