 | MOVIE #1,120 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.23.23 Everything about this is (mostly) great except for the acting: it’s conceptually brilliant, excellently edited (at first), has a nice score and generally looks pretty good given the (guerilla) circumstances, except when the ambitiousness of shooting inside Disney World without a permit or any permission catches up with them and we enter Green Screen Hell (see below). The performances might have been forgiven because of all the, frankly, amazing coverage they got for these on-set shots. But there’s no place to hide in front of the screen and the true vacuous nature of the plot is on full display. So perhaps not a shock at all that this is Randy Moore’s only credit of note on IMDB. |
While the notion to make a movie like this is genuinely refreshing and good, it seems like they had maybe 50% (at best) for what they wanted the story to be. So it ends up being much more frustrating than entertaining. I’m glad I finally saw what it was all about because I remember all the hoopla when it came out, but I don’t really recommend it unless you’re super curious.
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Escape from Tomorrow is a 2013 American independent horror film written and directed by Randy Moore in his directorial debut. It tells the story of an unemployed father having increasingly bizarre experiences and disturbing visions on the last day of a family vacation at the Walt Disney World Resort. It premiered in January at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was later a personal selection of Roger Ebert, shown at his 15th annual film festival in Champaign, Illinois. The film was a 2012 official selection of the PollyGrind Film Festival, but at the time filmmakers were still working on some legal issues and asked that it not be screened. It was released on January 18, 2013.
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