Recently, I purchased the short film Sparrow on DVD and have to say it was money well spent. The film was not meant to be eloquent and prettied up.
Horrid and detestable in every detail this atrocity and affront to humans should not be viewed. It is vapid and innocuous and that is being kind.
I accidentally surfed into this short while at the Angelica in Dallas this past summer. I haven't been able to shake the setup it presents and just today looked on IMDb to see if a feature-length version was in the works.
First reviewer obviously belongs to the group of privileged few who claim to have seen the film before it was released, i.e.
I see how many competition mentions this short film has received. And for a short film, it's extremely ambitious and covers a lot of territory.
I see how many competition mentions this short film has received. And for a short film, it's extremely ambitious and covers a lot of territory.
I was not expecting a very British slasher, created by Poles, oh the irony, from a title such as Camp Massacre, but that is what I got. A brisk seventy two minutes of a bunch of mouthy dicks camping in the woods, getting ruthlessly butchered amidst all of the Channel 4 drama bants.
PLOT: A group of friends go camping for the weekend only to find themselves being stalked by a machete wielding psycho with long black burly hair (which looks a lot better than is sounds.) Yes the "story" has been done to death (pun intended) but while it's an oldie it's also a goody (if you're a slasher fan you know first hand.
SPARROW is a Polish horror effort about the usual group of campers in the woods who encounter something nasty. Given this film's non-existent budget, you never quite see what it is exactly that they encounter, as this goes for a psychological approach.
