Remember when "straight to DVD" kind of said it all? Well during ERASER CHILDREN I reckon I thought up a new one. It's called "straight to YOUTUBE". I'll tell you why too.
Hopping on to YOUTUBE is normally all about grabbing bite size pieces or even highlights. Now there aren't too many highlights in ERASER CHILDREN, but there is the occasional sequence that's got cult written all over it. And yes I know cult is a dangerous and easily;y misappropriated word. It normally either means misunderstood and misestimated (is that a word?), or else it means plain it's so bad it's good. That's ERASER CHILDREN. There are scene in this thing where you'll move closer to the monitor and stop chewing on your pop tart for sure.
The story is all about the world ruled by some ideologue nut case who's a mix of every despot nut case you've ever heard of. And yes there's an underground movement, and yes there's technology gone nuts, and yes the world is in ruins (depending on the budget of the scene though).
The real problem with ERASER CHILDREN though is that it takes an ancient chestnut of a story and realizes within ten seconds into the film that it has nothing new to say. So it tries really, really hard to throw up whatever's in the area just to see what sticks. That's how you end up with transvestites as a comic relief. And no i'm not kidding.
I'm a big fan of cult sci-fi, so low budgets are no big deal, but give me a story and give me characters. Real characters. The fakeness in this film has nothing to do with the budget. It's the authenticity of vision. If you want to see future world gone mad, go see 1984 with John Hurt. It's not always pretty, but you'll actually feel something.
Hopping on to YOUTUBE is normally all about grabbing bite size pieces or even highlights. Now there aren't too many highlights in ERASER CHILDREN, but there is the occasional sequence that's got cult written all over it. And yes I know cult is a dangerous and easily;y misappropriated word. It normally either means misunderstood and misestimated (is that a word?), or else it means plain it's so bad it's good. That's ERASER CHILDREN. There are scene in this thing where you'll move closer to the monitor and stop chewing on your pop tart for sure.
The story is all about the world ruled by some ideologue nut case who's a mix of every despot nut case you've ever heard of. And yes there's an underground movement, and yes there's technology gone nuts, and yes the world is in ruins (depending on the budget of the scene though).
The real problem with ERASER CHILDREN though is that it takes an ancient chestnut of a story and realizes within ten seconds into the film that it has nothing new to say. So it tries really, really hard to throw up whatever's in the area just to see what sticks. That's how you end up with transvestites as a comic relief. And no i'm not kidding.
I'm a big fan of cult sci-fi, so low budgets are no big deal, but give me a story and give me characters. Real characters. The fakeness in this film has nothing to do with the budget. It's the authenticity of vision. If you want to see future world gone mad, go see 1984 with John Hurt. It's not always pretty, but you'll actually feel something.