Zombie Room

Tonight is the last night until we wrap Berlin up for this year. Tomorrow we head back home to Finland. I have to say though that I’m not at all eager to leave yet, Berlin has stolen my heart forever and I will miss the town very much. But it’s not over yet. Here’s my little intake on the dark side of the movie industry.

I had these grand ideas of scanning the market for all the zombie films out there. I even thought I would do a list of the worst movies in the EFM. But once again I was reminded how awful the film market really is. First of, I didn’t see any zombie films (which is kinda weird) and all the films I did saw would have easily made it into the worst list. Because let’s face it, most of the films in the market are bad or worse. So I decided that I don’t want to waste even a second on that crap. And just so you know, I won’t be making those lists this year or any other year for that matter.

I know that might sound boringly idealistic, but this is for your own good. Trust me.

I remember my first contact to the dark side of the movie industry when I went to Cannes film festival for the first time a couple of years back. As soon as the first oooh’s and aaah’s faded away and I walked inside the film market, I realised that the festival actually had nothing to do with art or even with the joy of film making. It was just down and dirty business. It’s the same here in Berlin, althought the market is smaller and a bit more inviting. I guess what I’m trying to say, is that if you love movies and want to keep it that way – stay out of the big film festivals.

Well it’s not complitely that black and white of course. Both in Berlin and Cannes the quality of cinema in the official selections are exquisite. Soi f you can just go see those movies, and enjoy the beutigul cities around them while your at it, you’ll be just fine.

For years now I have been wondering who are these people, these buyers, who actually buy these movies and even more who watches them… I’m guessing it’s not the Finns, since I never seen most of these films outside of the market. And thank God for that. Also the makers of these films puzzel me. They can’t be doing this for the fun of it. Or at least that’s what I hope.

I chose Death Kappa to finish this post, to give you an idea of what’s being sold at the market. Although in it’s horrific awfulness it is actually pretty awesome. So maybe it’s not the best example, but I think you get the idea. Here’s the promo.

And as my friend Todd Brown from Twitch said in his FB status: ”Dear films in the EFM market: Get better. That is all.”

Tags: Berlin Film Festival 2010, Death Kappa, EFM 2010

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