Saturday, July 24, 2010
A f*lm r*view
Posted by Gina at 7:57 AM
http://skipthemakeup.blogspot.com/2010/07/flm-rview.html**WARNING, THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW**
A week ago, at the Viz Theater in San Francisco's Japantown complex, I "bit the bullet" (ha-ha) and saw the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival's presentation of Ticked Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives (aka TOTWK). The small theater was less than 40% full. The audience was mostly straight, nerdy male fans of the gore genre, albeit with some slight overlap in the gay community. Taking into account the possible fallibility of my "trans-dar" (and my apologies to my sister for even having to say this) I can pretty reliably state I was one of two trans woman audience members who weren't involved in the film (Krystal Summers was also in attendance along with the director, the producer and fellow actor, Willam Belli).
It's a lousy job but someone has to do it
Back in early March, when I first started complaining about this film being booked for the Tribeca Film Festival, it wasn't in my plans to see it. But given the repeated (incorrect) statements from the director how none of the people complaining about the film have even seen it, and given that the film has recently gotten distribution for the midnight movie circuit (which is where I predicted it would ultimately find a brick and mortar home) I felt I needed to have a look before writing any more about the subject. The film also has a pending DVD release in fall '10 and felt I had said all I could say about my issues with the promotional materials, clips, and trailer.
