Since for a few days the Independent Film Festival, or also called BAFICI, I took the opportunity to see and comment on some of the most renowned films of the festival.
One of the little cool surprises I came across on Saturday night was'I Sell the Dead«. Directed by Glenn McQuaid, and counting in its cast with Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlam, Angus Scrimm, and Larry Fessenden. The argument oscillates between genres of common knowledge. A vampire terror, a bizarre one who does not really know where seriousness passes (if it happens), and a comedy tone that manages to coexist the two previous genres as well as possible.
The story is about two robbers of corpses, to deliver them to a well-known Doctor of the people (place yourself in the North American era of its beginnings), who forces them to continue stealing, increasingly fresh, and in greater numbers, in exchange for do not report them to the police. Both thieves are forced to continue their work, for many years. Until one night they come across a different corpse than the usual ones. With a necklace made with garlic, and a stake driven through the heart, both protagonists are unaware of having encountered a newly spawned female vampire. And by releasing her from her "eternal sleep," they discover that they can, by handing her over to the Doctor, end all their problems, and thus continue their work, in a much more relaxed way. Thus, the appearance of "strangeness" becomes more frequent, until a unique opportunity in their lives puts them between a rock and a hard place, being, finally, captured by the police, and pronounced to death.
Now, with a spectacular Art and Photography, the argument falls out of mature. It does not even have a good handle on the dramatic resources of each genre employed. A comedy tone that does not end, an irony that does not end, a terror that does not end. A movie that can be expected between popcorn and brand soda in a very commercial room, and with a ticket that is too expensive. Of those films that entertain during adolescence, because everything entertains in adolescence.
I think that if they had bet completely on the horror genre, they would have made a really good film. But at this point in the «ni» genre, little emotion was generated in a spectator audience, very typical of the Festival.