Cinema Suicide

It’s never entirely clear what’s going on in Attackazoids but New Jersey filmmaker, Brian Lonano, is on to something.  I’ve never been one to gush about Ray Harryhausen or stop motion animation but I’m occasionally caught off guard when I see a low budget production put it to good use.  One of the reasons I like Charles Band and Full Moon so much is because they never shied away from it.  The Puppet Master series, which I love, is predicated on the entire technique but those were made before CGI was even an option.  Lonano could have opted for CGI, but he didn’t and his menacing Attackazoids benefit from that.

Attackazoids is a 7 minute short film about a woman running from an army of murderous bipedal robots that cleave some people in half and roast the other half with their death rays.  Where they came from? I have no idea.  I also can’t begin to explain why the woman has such ridiculous blue eyes.  While the bots kill everything that moves, their loudspeakers assure everyone that everything is fine, everything is under control. It’s fantastic!

Drop by Brian’s website for the trailer and more information.  He’s definitely someone to keep an eye on.  I can’t imagine what he’d do with a whole feature.