LOVECRAFTIAN SHORTS incl. AM1200
March 30th 2009 00:32
Protective mother treats unctous son
But it was the final – and longest film - of the programme which received the biggest applause from the audience. Clocking in at 40 minutes, David Prior’s AM1200 (2008) started out as a corporate thriller as a white collar suit (Eric Lange) is on the run having stolen a lot of money, the movie appeared to stall in the middle at a bar where colleague Ray Wise (forever infamous as Laura Palmer’s killer dad) waxed obsessively lyrical about screwing over the big guys, but then the fugitive is back on the road and pretty soon is lost on a lonely stretch of highway. It’s pitch black, and he takes a wrong turn, ending up at a seemingly abandoned lone radio station; the eponymous evangelical AM 1200. It is here that he discovers a genuine horror far greater than being captured by police.
This is David Prior’s first foray into fiction, having made numerous DVD featurettes for big-budget features, including Zodiac, Transformers, and Blade (1997). Revered directors David Fincher and Guillermo Del Toro have been very impressed with his short, which is definitely a calling card saying “Lemme make a feature!” And if AM1200 is anything to go by, something wicked this way will come.
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