![]() ![]() And while not necessarily depicted in a graphic manner, his murder of anybody & everybody who gets in his way is quite chilling and bloody. While the protagonist is your standard issue budding student video / photography enthusiast, the character driving the story is the vicious, ruthless, completely amoral assassin ninja freak maniac the cult employs to silence those who may even unwittingly expose their plot. They just simply shot it on video out of expediency, preferring to see the film as they could make it with the resources at hand, and while the results are awkward in a few spots - especially the ending - the way it is being told is quite involving for the bulk of the story. Mark of the ninja trailer movie#Whoever wrote this was thinking big! Certainly far beyond your standard shot-on-video feature approach, and the methodical way the movie is constructed speaks for an artistic vision at work. ![]() Only its not just rival ideological factions behind the slew of murders that follow, it's a satanic cult efforting a bid to exert global influence & prepare for the return of Satan to the earth, plus the subsequent enslavement of mankind. This was the more interesting and adventuresome of the two productions, and appears to be essentially a student film approach to making a low-budget takeoff on BLOW-UP (or BLOW OUT, as Brian de Palma himself remade it) with the assassination of a political figure caught on tape by accident. Mark of the ninja trailer serial#Can't recall the name of the other one movie - and they are movies, regardless of the technology used - but the approach was the same: Try to construct a horror movie focusing on a serial killer using local TV station caliber video equipment, local acting talent including some bright kids from the area college with a media studies program, and approach it with the same kind of seriousness that one might a feature length entertainment. I collect offbeat, low budget horror movies on video as a hobby and came upon both quite by chance as they were packaged as slasher movie fare. This is the second shot-on-video psycho killer movie from Canada that I've found on old home video releases from Europe, where people will watch just about anything it seems. ![]()
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