Been playing The Evil Within all week, but not flat out or anything, usually two chapters a night, but today was only one part of Chapter 10. I'm pretty much head over heels with it. Chapter 9 was a standout, it legitimately put me on edge and made me tense.
Tonight I went out to a local film festival. It was 20 short movies (5 minutes-ish each), and I'm guessing there was a pool of props/themes they had to pick from. For example, a lot of these had a hook as a prop, or the line "where is it?". I didn't enjoy most of these. I get it, it's local made, and another thing was you only had 48 hours to make and submit it. Some of them were pretty good, well made and paced, some of them were a complete mess of ideas and plot, some were just bland as hell.
Some were actually made by kids. One of them made by teenagers had the best makeup effects of the bunch I think. The very first one I thought started out pretentious, then eventually won me over and was starting to get creepy, then it threw a curve ball and the whole thing was a setup for a joke. I loved it, the comedic timing and the face of the guy was absolutely perfect. Another personal favorite was just a narration over a drawing of a man in a fishing boat, with cut out fish, sharks and monsters being use as shadow puppets. Very good.
Ultimately, by the half way point, I was over it. Some of them were pretty awful, some made no sense. Again, I understand the time limit and restrictions of "backyard" movies, but some in the later half just made me want to leave. Oh well.
Tomorrow I might help a friend decorate his place for the Halloween party that's on Saturday. I'm gonna try and make some brain cupcakes too.
