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A film that takes a trip down memory lane, as it looks and feels exacty like one of these obscure drive-in- or grindhouse flicks from the 1970's - there's everything there from the washed-out colours to the choppy editing (back in the days usually done by the exhibitors to repair broken films) to the crude gore effects to the inconsistencies in sound coupled with an interesting musical score, only that everything is done intentionally here. Add to this a healthy disregard for the slasher formula (even though technically this film is a slasher flick) and you have got a perfect hommage to these films of old, quite simply a fun piece of nostalgia ...
review © by Mike Haberfelner on www.searchmytrash.com
review © by Mike Haberfelner on www.searchmytrash.com
This review by S.C.Carr of Shroud Magazine at www.shroudmagazine.com this review will be in issue 9 buy a copy today!
Make no mistake about it--Family Property is rough. Balls out, in yer face, punch in the gut rough. The editing is choppy. The haunting score and awesome soundtrack are punctuated with tape hiss, microphone pops, generator hum, indeterminate rattles and crashes. The camera shakes. The film is sometimes overexposed, sometimes under—always grainy. Short staccato segments of hurried action give way without warning to long, beautiful (and creepy) sequences of rural desolation—the titular family property is as much a character in the film as the killers and the victims … Dialog is cut off abruptly, often in mid-sentence, to give way to scene changes.
And this is what gives the movie its unnerving character—and makes it work. The gore is over-the-top, the violence is pushed to "eleven," and Lloyd Kaufman’s surprise performance is at once understated and riveting.
Director Derek Young’s vision—while neophyte, is without a doubt his own. In true grindhouse style, the plot is simple and over-the-top: a raving hillbilly lunatic murders anyone and everyone who even so much as sets foot on his family property. And that, really, is all you need to know.
More than anything else, Family Property captures that unsettling, incestuous cesspool feeling of its predecessors: films like The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, and 2001 Maniacs. Fans of hillbilly horror and DIY film—not to mention, the ever-growing Troma franchise (yes, Family Property is set firmly within the Troma universe)—should certainly check it out.
www.familyproperty.weebly.com.
— S. C. Carr
Make no mistake about it--Family Property is rough. Balls out, in yer face, punch in the gut rough. The editing is choppy. The haunting score and awesome soundtrack are punctuated with tape hiss, microphone pops, generator hum, indeterminate rattles and crashes. The camera shakes. The film is sometimes overexposed, sometimes under—always grainy. Short staccato segments of hurried action give way without warning to long, beautiful (and creepy) sequences of rural desolation—the titular family property is as much a character in the film as the killers and the victims … Dialog is cut off abruptly, often in mid-sentence, to give way to scene changes.
And this is what gives the movie its unnerving character—and makes it work. The gore is over-the-top, the violence is pushed to "eleven," and Lloyd Kaufman’s surprise performance is at once understated and riveting.
Director Derek Young’s vision—while neophyte, is without a doubt his own. In true grindhouse style, the plot is simple and over-the-top: a raving hillbilly lunatic murders anyone and everyone who even so much as sets foot on his family property. And that, really, is all you need to know.
More than anything else, Family Property captures that unsettling, incestuous cesspool feeling of its predecessors: films like The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, and 2001 Maniacs. Fans of hillbilly horror and DIY film—not to mention, the ever-growing Troma franchise (yes, Family Property is set firmly within the Troma universe)—should certainly check it out.
www.familyproperty.weebly.com.
— S. C. Carr
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Letter from Eric Morse to Scarefest!
To whom it may concern at Scarefest,
This is Eric Morse, author of The Camp Crystal Lake novels and host of The Eric Morse Project on Blog Talk Radio.
I’m writing because Derek Young, the director of the film Family Property, was on my show last Saturday and mentioned the fact that he had submitted his film to you convention for inclusion. Derek sent me a screener of his film before coming on my show and I must say I was impressed with this film. It has the feel of the classic original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I ask you to please consider including this film. Most of the classic we in the horror were inspired by were low budget films like Family Property. I could definitely see this film becoming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of a new generation of horror fans…
Thank you for your time…
T.T.F.N.
William Pattison, aka Eric Morse
The Eric Morse Project
This is Eric Morse, author of The Camp Crystal Lake novels and host of The Eric Morse Project on Blog Talk Radio.
I’m writing because Derek Young, the director of the film Family Property, was on my show last Saturday and mentioned the fact that he had submitted his film to you convention for inclusion. Derek sent me a screener of his film before coming on my show and I must say I was impressed with this film. It has the feel of the classic original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
I ask you to please consider including this film. Most of the classic we in the horror were inspired by were low budget films like Family Property. I could definitely see this film becoming The Texas Chainsaw Massacre of a new generation of horror fans…
Thank you for your time…
T.T.F.N.
William Pattison, aka Eric Morse
The Eric Morse Project