[Our thanks to Laurence H Collin from Panorama Cinema for the following review and Maude Michaud for the translation.]
Charlie Otero, fifteen, was coming home from school as usual. The night before, he had just watched the film In Cold Blood on TV and was pretty shaken up by this murder story set in a rural setting. In fact, he had even shared his fear with his dad, who consoled and assured him that such a thing would never happen. Charlie arrived home to find the house surrounded by police cars and anxiously asked the cops the reason why, only to be explained that four of his family members had just been murdered by a stranger with deviant impulses. Almost thirty years after the tragedy, documentary filmmaker Marc D. Levitz became interested with Charlie's story; now a father with a criminal past, Charlie is doing what he can to live a normal life. However, he will soon be haunted again by his painful past when the identity of his parents' murderer,...
Charlie Otero, fifteen, was coming home from school as usual. The night before, he had just watched the film In Cold Blood on TV and was pretty shaken up by this murder story set in a rural setting. In fact, he had even shared his fear with his dad, who consoled and assured him that such a thing would never happen. Charlie arrived home to find the house surrounded by police cars and anxiously asked the cops the reason why, only to be explained that four of his family members had just been murdered by a stranger with deviant impulses. Almost thirty years after the tragedy, documentary filmmaker Marc D. Levitz became interested with Charlie's story; now a father with a criminal past, Charlie is doing what he can to live a normal life. However, he will soon be haunted again by his painful past when the identity of his parents' murderer,...
- 7/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
It’s been five days since we last checked in, and despite watching movies every day, there’s been little to report. Maybe it’s just the exhaustion talking, but this thought just keeps pounding through my Fantasia addled brain - “Where are all the good horror movies at this year?” It’s not like it’s a problem with the festival programming. Fantasia has an impenetrable track record of picking nothing but the best, most innovative, and most extreme horror so what’s going on?
Part of the issue is the popularity of certain titles. For example, we still haven’t seen Rubber due to its constant sell-out status. Other films, like The Revenant (which everyone seems to love), we’ve missed due to Fantasia-fatigue brought on by too many three-movie days followed up by all-night discussions (and uh, beer). Other whole categories seem to have dried up. Compared to years past,...
Part of the issue is the popularity of certain titles. For example, we still haven’t seen Rubber due to its constant sell-out status. Other films, like The Revenant (which everyone seems to love), we’ve missed due to Fantasia-fatigue brought on by too many three-movie days followed up by all-night discussions (and uh, beer). Other whole categories seem to have dried up. Compared to years past,...
- 7/16/2010
- by EvilAndy
- DreadCentral.com
Mitch Davis makes no bones about it ... when it comes to the Fantasia Film Festival 2010 he's not pulling any punches, nor has he ever. Another flick making its Canadian premiere at the festival is Marc D. Levitz's absolutely devastating Btk documentary Feast of the Assumption: Btk and the Otero Family Murders , and we've got the latest one-sheet for you!
Fantasia Description
"This is not a true-crime documentary. At least, not in the regular sense. It’s not about a vile serial killer, though it features one of the worst imaginable at its centre. It doesn’t exist to confront you with the stomach-turning details of unspeakable acts—though that too does happen over the course of its running time. This is a film about the “living victims” left in the wake of a serial killer’s actions. In particular, this is a film about Charlie Otero. At the age of...
Fantasia Description
"This is not a true-crime documentary. At least, not in the regular sense. It’s not about a vile serial killer, though it features one of the worst imaginable at its centre. It doesn’t exist to confront you with the stomach-turning details of unspeakable acts—though that too does happen over the course of its running time. This is a film about the “living victims” left in the wake of a serial killer’s actions. In particular, this is a film about Charlie Otero. At the age of...
- 7/6/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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