Here’s a movie I’m really looking forward to: Ink, an independent film from writer/director Jamin Winans that’s playing in Denver now and that I hope will come to Seattle. It’s starting to build buzz as the next cult hit, and I’m doing my part to help that happen, because the trailer looks fantastic — eerie, fast-moving, layered, and maybe even some decent roles for women (say amen!). Take a look.
While you’re waiting for Ink to find its national audience and open in a theatre near you, check out this short film Spin, also from Winans. It’s a model of condensed storytelling, really nicely done.
I’ve been busy with, well, business — Humans At Work, job interviews, household matters. I’ve been away for a little while from fiction and from screenplays. To see work like this makes me want to dive back in and lose myself in some big project that will take me over, take me down deep, take me somewhere fascinating with some interesting characters… I can’t do that just now, but you know what? I think I’ll take take the the afternoon off and watch a movie.
Enjoy your day.
SPIN reminds me a bit of that old Outer Limits episode with the two Martians who keep fiddling with the murder of an unfaithful lover in a hotel lobby, in order to “study” this thing called jealousy—and end up letting him live, with the consequence that he marries the woman who almost killed him and their child grows up to be a horrible dictator. But who are they to stand in the way of true love?
“Spin” is great! They’re playing our song. God probably had a tough time leaving people in trouble when he was young too. Here’s a joke for you. Do you know what happens when you play a country and western record backwards? The guy gets his dog back, his trailer back and his wife back.
Ink looks very promising. Someone can always get me to watch if they put a child in jeopardy. It really tugs at the heart strings, and reminds me of the moment in my own childhood when I realized that my mom and dad could not always save me from the monsters.
Glad you both enjoyed it.
It’s true, Barbara, sometimes we can’t save each other from the monsters. That’s why horror fiction will always be with us.