{"id":11101,"date":"2016-06-07T20:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11101"},"modified":"2016-06-07T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:25:08","slug":"the-editor-2014-adam-brooks-matthew-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11101","title":{"rendered":"The Editor (2014, Adam Brooks & Matthew Kennedy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the vein of recent self-consciously faux-grindhouse movies like Machete<\/a><\/em> and Hobo With a Shotgun<\/a><\/em>, but this one’s a giallo imitation. Obviously brings to mind Berberian Sound Studio<\/a><\/em> and Amer<\/a><\/em> as well, but aiming for parody through extended reference instead of jokes. I smirked at the obvious dubbing and the Udo Kier cameo, but it comes off as a bad movie parodying bad movies. Writer\/directors Brooks and Kennedy also star as the editor and the inspector, respectively, with giant mustaches, and Kennedy’s inspector throws off the balance of the acting. Most everyone plays it straight – or slightly-winking parody-straight – but the Inspector goes big, a dead ringer for Matt Berry’s cocky explorer Dixon Bainbridge on The Mighty Boosh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Film director Francesco and the inspector:<\/em>
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Lot of straight razors (everybody in the movie has one) and black leather gloves and woman-slapping and flashbacks. Favorite plot point: the inspector’s wife Margarit is the first to discover the bodies of movie-in-the-movie actors Claudio and Veronica, and goes blind from the sight. Everyone makes fun of the editor all the time – he was formerly a renowned editor (there is such a thing?) but sliced off his own fingers in a rage, and now works on shitty movies with his fawning assistant Bella. Either of them would be a prime suspect for the murder spree, which soon claims substitute leading man Cesare. But could top-billed Paz de la Huerta (The Nude Woman in The Limits of Control<\/a><\/em>) as the editor’s wife who is barely in the first half of the movie possibly be involved? Yes!<\/p>\n

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Didn’t play the pile of extras, just gonna appreciate the surface pleasures of the movie, like the editor beginning to see reel-change marks bleed into real life, and UDO KIER (less awesome than he was in The Forbidden Room<\/a><\/em> but hey, it’s still Udo Kier).<\/p>\n

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The codirectors previously collaborated on Father’s Day<\/em>, a Troma movie about a revenge-seeking man named Ahab.<\/p>\n

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