On the brink of reaching the pinnacle of his film career for his latest theatrical masterpiece; Director Charlie Buckwald suddenly disappears with all of the footage. After several coincidental film crew deaths documentarian Jack Humphreys decides to investigate uncovering a sinister involvement.
Director: George Cameron Romero (as G. Cameron Romero); Writers: James Cullen Bressack (story by), James Cullen Bressack; Stars: Tom Sizemore, B.J. Hendricks, Ian Hutton
George Cameron Romero is exactly who you think he is. He's been a commercial director for several years now with a few forays into feature film. Recently he and his father G.A. have announced an animated Living Dead project for us in the future but for right now we have Auteur to talk about. There's no doubt G.C. knows a thing or two about auteurs, being so closely related to one. He also doesn't have to travel far to get independent film advice. Nor, so it seems, does he have a problem finding an A-list actor to lend credibility to his work. Tom Sizemore is not a man you count out to early. The story of our Auteur is well developed, Charlie Buckwald is a driven direction who originally set out to make his opus. The story of that masterpiece and its many controversies is interwoven into our documentary film makers struggle to learn more about his idol. We also can't help but be drawn into the struggle as the reclusive film maker tries to keep his secret while hiding from its consequences. But all it takes is one curious fan equally driven to let the cat out of the bag and chaos is on its way.
Romero has experience with documentary style film making and the interviews interwoven with mystery mix well. The only problem I see with it is the unexplained switches to non-POV for a scene or two. It seemed to abrupt and came out of nowhere. I can't help but refer back to Behind the Mask, where Glosserman made the switch to omniscient obvious and without apology, Glossermans choice avoided confusion and distraction. With Auteur I actually lost the story for a moment when I realized our view had changed. That much said there's little else that fails in Auteur. Cinematically it matches up with every other film of its kind and the acting is well done if not slightly relaxed. The only character that is confusing is Tom Sizemore, its hard to understand why exactly is he there, well except to give his trademark tough guy routine.
Auteur is currently available on all platforms and definitely worth addition to your collection of Hollywood Fringe horror stories.
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