Product: I'll Bury You Tomorrow (2005)
Rating: 4.0
not a delusion of grandeur
We should support ultra-low-budget efforts such as this. Major kudos to Mr. Jerry Murdock for a terrific bit of acting. Writer/director/gore effects wiz Alan Rowe Kelly shows tremendous promise. You guys are going places, the talent is there.The weaknesses, as I saw them, and it's not easy critcizing something as low-budget as this, but I feel a certain responsibility: I realize it was shot on video, still, so much of the footage looked washed out. And this was something I didn't get, because it is so easy these days to get great looking footage with just about any (relatively inexpensive) SD camcorder, etc.Secondly: the lead who played Dolores: just awful, so weak in fact that she hurt what could have been a horror classic. This film could have used someone better suited and convincing, someone who understands that LESS IS MORE, someone who undestands that yelling does not necessarily translate as deep-rooted rage ( there is more to it than that) someone with a degree of charisma and screen presence, etc.It pains me to knock something that was made for next-to-nothing, still...if we are going to be helpful in any way, things ought to be pointed out: the good--as well as the other.Lastly, the director also appears in the film as one of the characters. I say, okay, if you're someone like Eastwood, who can afford to have an army of crew people watching the actors to make sure no one steps out of frame and that things go the way they should...but when you cannot afford help of this caliber, it really isn't worth it--because your project will ultimately suffer as a result.As I said: the guy can write, he can direct; the talent is there. Horror fans like to complain about all the remakes we are being subjected to... Well, here is something original. Get it. Rent it. Buy it. Support the indies, support hard-working creative types with solid potential like Alan Rowe Kelly and Jerry Murdock.