I Blame Society: Filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat plays a crazed version of herself who gets fed up with scripts being rejected and studio double-dealing. She decides to use her skills to kil off all the hypocritical and annoying people she knows. Things get a bit Meta as she's making a faux-documentary about how good she would be as a serial killer. Some very dark scenes, you know this is black comedy and satire but it still cuts to the bone. Quite literally as she makes her murders look like suicide. She even dresses rooms as murder scenes as she breaks into homes. The chuckle may well die in your throats at times but this is well worth watching, Directed/Written by Gillian Wallace Horvat. 8/10.
I Blame Society
2020
Action / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
I Blame Society
2020
Action / Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
Playing a perhaps semi-fictionalized version of herself, director Gillian Horvat resolutely navigates an inspiring series of comical obstacles, skeptical intimates, and biased industry gatekeepers to get her first feature film off the ground. From a subjectively innocent initial concept that sings to fans of the 'My Favorite Murder' podcast-Gillian deftly executes the first in a series of impeccable transgressions with an unyielding allegiance to the Muse that resides within the heart of an unforgivable madness...a quality revered in cinema's greatest auteurs. Co-opting the rules of a historically exclusive game, I BLAME SOCIETY is both an amusing and alternately disturbing meta-narrative exploring the dark side of artistic vision-articulating the oft-celebrated egregious qualities deemed to be intrinsic to cinematic brilliance.
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Director
Top cast
Morgan Krantz as Producer #2
Garrett Coffey as Phil
Devon Graye as Taylor
Aaron Moorhead as Detective on TV
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 781.74 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
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Dark Satire
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Slow start, but ultimately interesting and fun
Some couple tell Gillian that she would make a good murderer. She wants to make a film about her committing murder. She selects her friend's girlfriend to be the victim, which creeps him out and the friendship takes some time out. Sometime later she gets back together with this friend and she accidentally poisons him with a sesame seed bagel. From here it escalates hysterically. Is this just a movie she is making, or...? Not high budget, but not intended to be. I think it was a creative movie, certainly not the usual horror fare.
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Occasionally brilliant
This has moments that really, really work. Black, dark comedy with a biting, cynical edge. The construction works for the most part but a few of the actors are really bad, and there are a few moments where the "fiction" slips due to too much camera work. But overall, I thought it was a strong, black comedy, especially for a no-budget movie.