Waylon Bacon is going home again. Bacon, a graduate of Albany High School, will be showing his latest demented masterpiece, Help Wanted, and participating in a post-screening Q&A at the 2nd annual Albany Film Festival, which takes place on March 3.
Help Wanted is a horror comedy about the world’s worst job: Processing the dead victims of hit men and other hired killers. It’s a sick, twisted and absolutely hilarious epic short film. Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film reviewed it back in 2010, calling it “funny and frightening.”
Joining Bacon on-stage will be filmmaker Hoku Uchiyama, another Albany High grad, with his own short film, Rose, a rural American ghost story.
The Albany Film Festival is screening primarily short films from Noon to 8:00 p.m., kicking things off with the absolutely charming The Squash by Bobby Young.
However, there will be two special feature films on hand.
Help Wanted is a horror comedy about the world’s worst job: Processing the dead victims of hit men and other hired killers. It’s a sick, twisted and absolutely hilarious epic short film. Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film reviewed it back in 2010, calling it “funny and frightening.”
Joining Bacon on-stage will be filmmaker Hoku Uchiyama, another Albany High grad, with his own short film, Rose, a rural American ghost story.
The Albany Film Festival is screening primarily short films from Noon to 8:00 p.m., kicking things off with the absolutely charming The Squash by Bobby Young.
However, there will be two special feature films on hand.
- 3/1/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
As the old saying goes, “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” But, for one lucky farmer, it does pop out of certain ground-growing plants in Bobby Young‘s charming short film The Squash. However, that title is a little misleading. There’s tons of squash providing a true harvest of plenty in this simple cautionary tale told without dialogue and with a folksy soundtrack composed by Dave Brown.
Although told in a very straightforward manner, The Squash isn’t as predictable as it might seem at the outset. Young has the fates line up perfectly for his main character with no internal logic set up to explain the magical events that occur.
There’s no reason for the farmer to become so blessed with his bounty. He’s not a deserving figure in the least, but, by the same token, he’s not undeserving, either. Without any speaking to rely on for motivation or explanation,...
Although told in a very straightforward manner, The Squash isn’t as predictable as it might seem at the outset. Young has the fates line up perfectly for his main character with no internal logic set up to explain the magical events that occur.
There’s no reason for the farmer to become so blessed with his bounty. He’s not a deserving figure in the least, but, by the same token, he’s not undeserving, either. Without any speaking to rely on for motivation or explanation,...
- 6/29/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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