In a sense, I believe I may have been asking for it when I actually looked at a film from a group of young filmmakers who described their work as a parody of The Mist, shot while bored out of their minds at a church lock-in. For those not familiar, basically a lock-in is an event hosted by a school or church or the like where kids are invited to spend the night in a building they wouldn’t ordinarily sleep in. They’re locked in; no one can enter or leave during the proceedings.
But here’s the question–how did this improvised parody of The Mist turn out? The answer? Not nearly as bad as you’d think.
You expect a certain amount of low-rent from kids operating out of a church basement, but they actually knew enough about the source material (I get the feeling they’d seen The Mist upward of a couple dozen times at least) to make a pretty fair parody. Look for stuff like: The Guy Who Won’t Speak And Yet Communicates, Fun With Subtitles, and my personal favorite, The Indecisive Monster.
Okay, so this is YouTube dreck at quite possibly its lowest but I’ll admit even I managed to get some good laughs out of it. And since you’re seeing this four minute wonder for free anyway, what more can you ask for?
The Screenhead Ten Scale hands this shoestring production a full six out of ten for actually trying, and occasionally succeeding.
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