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CRITICIZED at Horror Fest '06:

Saturday 18th November, Portsmouth

review by Tony Lee (www.zone-sf.com)

Horror Fest (part of the "film and new media festival" Portsmouth Screen ) ran from 16 to 18 November 2006.

The show began with an unbilled short film, Richard Gale's Criticized , which is about a newspaper's film critic who gets kidnapped and violently tortured because of his entirely negative comments about a new filmmaker's work... Basically, this appears to be Saw meets Theatre Of Blood (1973) but appearances can be deceptive, and its two-man cast and intensely claustrophobic bathtub/ shower-stall setting makes a very strong impression, nonetheless. Indeed, as the quintessential shocker of this whole event it's a tour de force of quite startling originality and ambition that brings unrivalled qualities of nightmarish in-your-face horror to a genre wholly perpetuated by much lesser artists not fit to wipe the (surely pristine?) arse of this genius filmmaker. Honestly, I can't praise this enough, and even my brother thought it was an utterly perfect masterpiece of Art. We are convinced the stupid film critic (who cannot be named for legal reasons) got exactly the fate that he deserved...

Unanimous score: 11 out of 10 (of course!)