Frank, what were you thinking? You let R.A. the Rugged Man have creative control? Maybe it was how you got the movie made, but still. His fingerprints are all over it. Kinda pricked the hairs on the back of my neck, and not in a good way.
Wait, what am I thinking? Henenlotter hasn't made a movie in almost twenty years. It's amazing that he came out of "retirement" (I call it not being able to get a project greenlit). He's a true auteur, even if part of his creative process these days is to work with cheesy rappers. Every time I watch one of his movies I think, "Frank, what were you thinking?" Remember the musical stylings of the Basket Case sequels? Sure, I guess I loved those movies. Henenlotter is special because his movies are absurd. Add Bad Biology to the canon. I don't know if it's as good as Brain Damage.
It was made forever ago but it still doesn't have a release date. It played a few festivals, and I was under the impression that it got made as an installment of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, but maybe that's not true because it probably should've been released by now. If Synechdoche and Che had a hard time finding distribution, I can only imagine how hard it's been to sell a starless movie where the female lead craps out screaming aborted babies every five minutes. Writing that last sentence made me realize how special this movie is.
Henenlotter should've just shot it on video so there wouldn't have been as much of a financial risk. Any director that can't get their films made anymore should swallow their pride and shoot on digital video. They could make a feature for like a hundred bucks. People would watch it. Fans would at least, and there are more babies being born every day. It's not like the director's artistic voice wouldn't weaken if they switched from shooting with one type of camera to another. Shoot a movie on digital video, upload it installments to YouTube, then sell DVDs to the fans.
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