Sandy Collora’s Hunter Prey: Cool Sci-Fi Throwback or More Fanboy Crap?
Fan films… we love to hate ‘em here at Film Junk. It’s not that they can’t be entertaining or fun, but unless they are based on a truly clever idea, they represent the height of laziness from a storytelling standpoint. Coasting on the coattails of other people’s work, if you will. Nowadays the collaborative nature of the internet has lead to a cut and paste culture, and I will admit that sometimes re-appropriating other people’s creations can lead to cool new things. But 99% of fan films are laughable, and when people pour a large amount of time and money into these things, you have to wonder what they’re getting out of it.
In the case of Sandy Collora, director of the popular fan film Batman: Dead End, he may have actually earned himself a shot at directing his first feature film. After working on the special effects for such Hollywood movies as Leviathan and Predator 2, it’s no surprise that his first movie Hunter Prey pays tribute to sci-fi action movies of the ’80s. In fact, looking at the first stills from the movie, you might assume it was a Star Wars fan film. Although I thought Batman: Dead End was completely ridiculous, I do give Collora props for going out and doing something somewhat original this time around. He certainly knows his creature FX… the question is, will the movie actually be any good? Unfortunately, it has at least one strike against it: body builder Clark Bartram is once again starring in it. Just check out the video below… HORRIBLE.
Comments (7)
Is that actually real though? Seems so over the top it could just be some viral marketing scheme for this film.
Posted by Henrik on November 20th, 2008I’m pretty sure it’s not fake. Because if it was fake, would he really have a website like this?
http://www.clarkbartram.com/
Posted by Sean on November 20th, 2008Yeah, I guess the joke would only go so far. What a parody though.
Posted by Henrik on November 20th, 2008There’s this dude Clive Young who runs the website fancinematoday.com that has just released a book called Homemade Hollywood about the fan film community. Probably a very interesting read but like you Sean I can’t watch 99% of these fan films. Utter shit most of the time but once in a while a good one emerges, although I have seen very few of those.
I also have to agree with that if they are spending time and money on this, why not make original material? I saw a trailer for an Italian Star Wars fan film that looked very impressive but I just can’t get over the super fan boy drivel that most of these films have. Star Trek fans are the most hard core though, there is a project that just finished that features a crap load of actors from the actual Star Trek series.
Posted by Peking Duck on November 20th, 2008I have to ask since they can’t sell this or make any sort of money off of it, where do they get the cash to make this?
That interview has nothing to do with the movie. It’s obviously for something completely unrelated. Yes, it’s dumb but the movie looks promising. Those pictures look nothing like any fan film I’ve ever seen.
Posted by Arnessi on November 21st, 2008I think every other fan film that followed Collora’s stuff is fanboy crap. He’s a professional. this looks awesome!
Posted by BigMike on November 21st, 2008If that looks like a fanfilm, I must have missed the “good stuff” section on TheForce.Net. This stuff was shot on a Red One, and the costume design is outrageous.
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