How does one person have the balls to take a trademarked Sesame Street character and turn him into a ruthless killer? My guess is that this film was actually made for the pure purpose of:
A: For the pure fun of filmmaking.
B: To showcase the talent of the filmmakers.
C: As a film that should just be shown to friends and family.
Obliviously the third reason is not the case or I myself would not have been sent a copy to review, I will say however that this film despite it’s use of trademarked puppet has been featured in many film festivals and has even won awards. And just to get the fact that a filmmaker would break the copyright and trademark rule to make a film that they were going to publicize is not only risky but in a way a very smart marketing tool to be used to gain notoriety. Now I don’t think that the rights holder of Sesame Street are going to care, because after all look at all the fan based art and online videos that depict these children characters in odd and unusual ways. Even Fox’s The Family Guy made fun of Bert and Ernie. So with that said I see Eddie Loves You as more of a fan based film.
Now that you know this film largely revolves around a killer stuffed animal; a killer Elmo I should say. It kind of easy to really sum up the plot of the story. Now I can’t fully go into detail about the whole entire story because the screener copy I had was having a bit of audio trouble. However it this film didn’t need to have sound because the action pretty much told the whole story.
Basically the story is about this guy who obviously has some issue with stuffed animals. One thing leads to another and all of a sudden we have a killer Elmo movie. Basically we have Elmo running around with a knife trying to kill this guy, who I’m guessing in named Eddie.
Now, yes I know this film sound a bit far fetched, but let me tell you folks it’s actually really funny and at times scary. I mean as much as it’s funny to see Elmo running around with a knife, the big smile that the stuffed animal has across it’s face is pretty dam scary. Also the use of dark shots and quick cuts made gave the film it’s edge of creepiness.
On the overall scale of acting, I guess you can say for a short independent film it was pretty decent. The effects were very good, especially how the filmmakers were able to make the Elmo doll move around so freely. If they did use fishing string to make him move around you didn’t see it at all in the film, and it made it that much more freaky.
Overall, I have to say that the film does have a creepy edge to it, but it’s not really as much scary than it is funny. After all how serious can you take a film with a killer Elmo doll in it? You really can’t, but it is one hell of a fun movie to watch and enjoy.
– Horror Bob
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