IMThem

David, a makeup artist, stumbles upon a major crime scene and slips down a nightmarish paranoid film noir rabbit hole. IMThem adeptly combines suspense with comedy and features fine performances most notably lead Clay Ballard and supporter Larry Laverty What cheapens this production is the occasional appearance of dime store gore. Nonetheless I'm watching it more than once!

This cool cerebral and complex film has some laughs and unique qualities. If you have seen Ant DeGennaro's other work like Sisterhood of Death or Cassavettes, you will see some of his welcome art style here.

He tends to mix very candid humor in with some horrific topics which breaks the 4th wall, but keeps you engaged nonetheless. I would say this film is an evolved version of his earlier work and really hammers home his abilities to deliver something uniquely interesting.

IMTHEM is a film that requires an audience that understands that indie is NOT and never will BE the Hollywood Machine. If you're familiar with the early works of directors such as Cassavettes you understand that one film is only an indicator of where a director is going. DeGennaro is well on his path to greatness. Does the the film have challenges? Yep and that is not in question. The heart the film, the humor of the film and the performances give a nod to directors who have taken challenges and finished the job. Perhaps not to everyone's likings but I recently saw WonderWoman and with hundreds of millions of dollars all of the creativity that Hollywood could muster, the film still got panned. So, when a new voice rises, I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. Nice effort and I'm sure it will find it's audience.

On the borderlines of sanity, a film about a half jobless make up artist, that does his best to survive at the local theater scenes, stumbles into a killing crime, gets caught by the assassins, breaks away, and dives into a nightmarish downspiral of a hideway run of fright and horror and in the end a kind of graphic revenge...

its an amateurs workshop movie, where everything is on a basic level, and the sack of gold quite empty, there are sound issues en masse', light settings not good enough for a dark environment horror flick, low standard filmography, and editing, the score is a one man show that sound horrific and well suited for the chime of the genre. the story line are very clockwork orange like, and the advertized comedy sits deep in there, maybe fun for some...

the grumpy old man gives a weak three for this a-z errors of filmaking, its less than a time filler and will not get my recommendments, its too weird and nothingless.