June 02, 2020

30 Day Film Challenge. Day 19


Martin. A film by George A. Romero. A film that few people have seen but when they do it kinda lodges in their brain never to leave. It's lo-fi as hell compared to his famous Dead Trilogy but it's easily as effective. The story of a young man in Pittsburgh who thinks he's a vampire. We never find out if he is or isn't but the ambiguity throughout the film gives it the creepiest edge and a feeling that's really hard to shake. It's a 70's horror masterpiece that deserves to be spoken of like Dawn Of The Dead and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre but it never is because some find it's slow pace and relative lack of action and overt horror a put off. The fools.

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