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(2009)
Directed by Ozgur Uyanik
Starring James Powell, Lorna Beckett, Tom Shaw, Hugh Armstrong, Joanne Ferguson

I was not looking forward to watching and reviewing this film. Just another low budget film that would probably have some terrible acting, paper thin plot, no style, and absolutely no redeeming qualities. Been through too many of those before and not looking forward to another one. But this time, I was in for a few surprises.

My first surprise was not realizing that the film is made like it was a real documentary. If one didn’t know any better, they wouldn’t know that it was actually a film and not a real life documentary about a young filmmaker who gets a little too close to obsession. That’s how good of a “film” this is.

The reason that this could actually pass as a real documentary was my second surprise. That is simply due to the fact that most everyone involved do not seem like actors, but just real people. This brings so much of believability to the story. You start to think that you’re actually watching a documentary instead of a low budget picture. The characters are real people, doing their job and getting pulled into this nightmare. Several times you will catch yourself thinking that it is a real documentary.

The film is about James, a young aspiring filmmaker that gets a job at a production company as a runner, trying to find some way to get his foot in the door. While cleaning out the office’s basement, he discovers some film cans that have an uncompleted horror film called THE STREET WALKER, which is about a serial killer. The film was never finished and the director ended up killing himself. Was it a really well made film or did James stumble across a real snuff film. He decides that he wants to finish the film, hoping that this will get his career started. But the more he becomes obsessed with this film and what is going on in the footage; he starts to lose his grip on reality.

Powell does an excellent job portraying the troubled aspiring filmmaker. His father thinks he’s wasting his time instead of getting a proper job, one of his bosses at the production company is constantly try to keep him down and giving so support. As he slowly starts to snap, we believe it. We can feel the frustration that he is going through, which turns into a deadly obsession.

While we don’t get to see much of the actor playing the killer in the found film, the scenes that we see are pretty chilling. All of the films footage is in black and white, while the rest of the pseudo-documentary is in color. So while there’s not that much graphic on screen violence, but enough suggestion to really make an impact, including a choking scene that will have you gasping for air. And the black and white photography makes it even better.

With all the low budget crap that’s out there, it’s nice to know there are still some talent filmmakers that can still show us something different. Gives me hope for the low budget industry.