Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare review – surprisingly delightful gore-fest doco

Horror Movie: A Low Budget Nightmare review – surprisingly delightful gore-fest doco

A documentary with heart and sincerity – all the more surprising given the grotesque content of the ..

A documentary with heart and sincerity – all the more surprising given the grotesque content of the film it documents the making of

In an attempt to explain the twisted, wigged-out ambition of writer/director Craig Anderson – namely what compelled him to make his feature film debut, the horror movie Red Christmas – there is no better person to refer to than the man himself. Laying himself emotionally bare in the opening reels of Horror Movie: A Low-Budget Nightmare, director Gary Doust’s surprisingly delightful two-part documentary about the film-maker’s backbreaking journey to realise his dreams, Anderson gets watery-eyed as he reflects on his life.

“All the years I was growing up, the only thing I ever wanted to do was make a movie. And somewhere along the line I got confused,” he says. “Parts of my life have just fallen by the wayside … What I don’t want to be, is the guy who dies not having done what they should have done. So I am going to make a movie. About an aborted foetus that survives its abortion, grows up, and kills its family.”

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