![]() ![]() Dylan eating a salad of plain spinach (literally no dressing or other ingredients) while making painfully long eye contact with a woman.Repeated dream sequences where a naked Dylan awkwardly bear hugs another poor naked actress in a cave made of trash bags.A romantic scene in the woods between Dylan and his former flame, interspersed with shots of his current wife slowly killing herself with pills.(Perhaps this is what sex is like on Neil Breen's home planet.) The two then literally begin to tear each others clothes off while laughing and throwing paper in the air. A confusing scene of foreplay where Dylan seduces his wife by slowly shoving electronics on to the floor.Dylan, still injured from his car accident, leaving the hospital so he can go home to his wife and slow dance with her in a disgustingly bloody shower. ![]() Many critics felt Neil Breen's ELEPHANT MAN remake was unnecessarily erotic.Īlong the way, you can expect some truly baffling scenes, including: Dylan quickly recovers (thanks to the magic cube) only to be faced with new obstacles in life: the return of his childhood crush, his friend's marital troubles and eventual murder, sexual temptation via a teenage Lolita, and his wife's struggles with prescription pill addiction. The boy grows in to a man, a man named Dylan who is immediately run over by a car in the first scene. They encounter a magical mushroom, which dissolves to reveal buried treasure: a small black cube. The film starts with a young boy and girl venturing in to the woods. It's hard to really tell you what FATEFUL FINDINGS is about, since it doesn't have a discernible plot, nor does it follow any kind of logical structure or storytelling technique. It's a simultaneously hypnotic and terrible and amazing experience. From the unconvincing performances to the haphazard script to the illogical editing, nothing about this movie feels natural in the slightest, as if Breen is an alien trying to mimic and understand human behavior. There's an eerie, hyper-realistic quality to Breen's filmmaking that makes it almost unsettling. FATEFUL FINDINGS feels malevolent in its badness, like you're watching the tape from THE RING. However, THE ROOM was in many ways a good-natured travesty. And a film that, from a technical perspective alone, is an outright comedy. A meandering, nonsensical plot centered on human drama and relationships, by someone who clearly knows nothing about humans or relationships. Neil Breen's 2013 film shares a lot of similarities with Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM: A bizarre vanity project made by an even more bizarre amateur filmmaker. The film's subliminal hints to the audience weren't so subliminal. Stars: Neil Breen, Jennifer Autry, Klara Landratįew films can claim to change your life, but I can truly say that I am a different human being after having watched FATEFUL FINDINGS. Now that Tommy Wiseau and THE ROOM (read our review of the movie and live show) are about to reach critical cultural mass thanks to THE DISASTER ARTIST, it's time to introduce you to your next favorite cult director and movie… ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |