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In a rushed, last minute project for their film-arts class, three friends Josh, Tom and Dom collaborate in a family camper and decide to make a horror film as a quick project to bump their grades. The film itself has no premise, as of yet, just the idea: Make a horror film with just the three of them and their camera. Sure, why not? However, Josh eventually has to make his way home before they get any real work done and, not long after, Tom and Dom are stuck in the camper, the electricity flickering in or out, and a MUCH larger concern than their grades on their hands.
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Review by Ginose
Added: April 3, 2010
Huh. Well, I just had an interesting experience. I can't say that there's ever been a situation where a short-film, streamed through YouTube submitted to be reviewed on MvMMDI, but that's not to say it SHOULDN'T be. I'd hate to think we're expected to review every little, half-thought, quarter-realized drop in our bucket and I certainly would be first to say that I HATE even considering a lot of short film-projects "movies", and hate it even more when people attempt to pass-off these rabbit-pellets as raisins, because I don't like raisins to begin with, and to get shit instead of a tart-little grape, well, shit just doesn't float.
I am, however, perfectly fine with student-films (the raisins) provided that they don't FEEL like student films. I don't mean to say that I don't want them to feel as low-budgeted or shoddily written as they are, but I want them to feel like something that someone was willing to put a lot of heart and a bit of thought into and, most of all, it has to look like they had fun with it. "School Project", while far from an accomplished film and not a high step above MOST of the useless YouTube horror shorts, definitely shows the work of a group of fellows who are definitely passionate about making films and, at the very least, know how to go about making one.
In a rushed, last minute project for their film-arts class, three friends Josh, Tom and Dom collaborate in a family camper and decide to make a horror film as a quick project to bump their grades. The film itself has no premise, as of yet, just the idea: Make a horror film with just the three of them and their camera. Sure, why not? However, Josh eventually has to make his way home before they get any real work done and, not long after, Tom and Dom are stuck in the camper, the electricity flickering in or out, and a MUCH larger concern than their grades on their hands.
Tried and true this is a very by-the-books, unimaginative horror-short, borrowing from just about every popular horror film in from the last 15 years or so, yet it still manages to pull itself together AS a short horror film rather than a jumbled cluster of ideas thrown together for the sake of it. This may be the only thing putting it a head above most YouTube faire, and made it, for the most part, a fun little watch; there's nothing that happens that you don't see coming, the acting is all a bit off and, yet, fairly natural (for the first half of the 10-minute piece, anyway, though possibly because the characters were doing exactly what the actors were, but, beside the point) and the effects/editing is actually fairly remarkable.
Provided you must filter all of this praise through the "it's still a YouTube short made by three teenage friends with nothing better to do" thought, it's still enjoyable as a stand-alone horror short, and definitely makes me smile to see such young talent having the ambition to actually make a movie and actually, well, make a movie. Maybe it's all blind nostalgia, maybe I'm just actually taken aback by how much better it was than I thought it'd be, but "School Project" truly isn't bad at all. Not GOOD, really, but certainly worth a watch if you've got the 10-minutes to spare.
6/10.
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