I searched this long lost & forgotten Thriller because I'm a Joe Pilato fan (R.I.
Pittsburgh is more than just my hometown. If you believe a source as vaunted as Joe Bob Briggs, we're also the birthplace of modern horror, thanks to George Romero and friends creating Night of the Living Dead right here (well, actually Evans City, 45 minutes north of the city).
You guys need to change the name to: "Cocaine Snuff." That's pretty much the whole movie in a nutshell.
A low-budget horror film is being shot in a secluded mountain area by a hard-working crew and a cast of bewildered actors.However it soon becomes apparent that another crew is shooting the making of the horror film and their intentions are evil.
I am or was when I watched this, quite pleasantly surprised. The production values may not be the best (low budget and all), but the story of a movie being shot and the suspicion being there might be something real to the violence going on ...
Starring Dawn of the Dead special FX guy Tom Savini, Joseph Pilato (Captain Rhodes from Day of the Dead) and John Harrison (who gave us the haunting score for Creepshow), this low-budget Pittsburgh horror has virtually nothing else in common with those Romero classics: it's a dreary, badly directed mess of a movie that does little justice to an admittedly intriguing premise.Pilato stars as cinematographer Dominic, who is hired to work on a horror movie, unaware that director Lacey Bickel (Harrison) is secretly filming his own cast and crew, planning to turn them into the stars of a snuff movie.
I am sure for some folks this movie is the cat's meow because of the cast and crew, but unfortunately, it's pretty boring. It's not a horror movie (although they are making one in the film) and it's certainly not a thriller because there is little to no suspense.
A cinematographer/special effects man(Joseph Polito, Capt. Rhodes of Romero's "Day of the Dead")finds himself caught in a real snuff film, a tragic example of life imitating art.
This movie seriously had me worried that I might be autistic! Forty-five minutes into the film and there still wasn't the slightest sign of plot development and/or essence.
