In 2013, both inside and outside of Horror circles, the buzz surrounding Escape from Tomorrow, a movie filmed at Disney World and Disney Land clandestinely, hit a fever pitch, making it perhaps the most exalted and revered indie since The Blair Witch Project. It found a place on just about every Horror critic’s Best of 2013 List, becoming a nearly instantaneous cult classic. Film fans and practitioners alike marveled at writer/director Randy Moore‘s revolutionary spirit and brazen audacity; one journalists in particular opined Escape from Tomorrow is a film that “should not exist by any rational definition. And yet… not only does it exist, it’s fascinating”. But hype can be a double-edged sword, creating excitement but also bolstering expectations. In the case of Escape from Tomorrow, so much attention has been focused on the guerilla filmmaking tactics employed (not to mention the unbelievable fact that Disney didn’t sue Moore’s balls off) that the back-story can definitely overshadow the film itself. Respect for a filmmaker’s abilities doesn’t always translate to a crowd pleasing final product (Kevin Smith’s Red State comes to mind). Let’s not be so dazzled by the fascinating production achievements that we forget to take a long hard look at the story within.
Check out my review after the jump.
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