Director:
Mark Schaefer
Studio/Production Company:
Super-Natural Films
Genre:
Comedy
Sub-Genre:
Horror/Stoner/Martial Arts/Sci-fi
Length:
Feature
Website:
http://www.super-natural-films.com
Score:
1/5
Unabashedly lo-fi, writer-director Mark Schaefer’s film glories in all things low: culture, technology and class. Amateurishly acted and produced, the film is not without its own ghoulish, gory, kitschy charm but it will probably appeal mostly to those who relate to the stoner type characters that populate the film.
Less focused on compelling story-telling, instead content to concentrate more on style, mood and atmosphere and seemingly more concerned with squeezing as much into the mix of martial arts action, high school comedy, drug humor, criminal activity and horror, the film comes off as little more than Old School Tarantino-light, the sort of low-rent would-be “Pulp Fiction” clones that everyone seemed to be trying to make back in 1995 although also it also recalls the spectacularly cheesy “grindhouse” era films that QT and buddy Robert Rodriguez would later deify in their epic, though similarly erratic “Grindhouse.”
Apparently Schaefer also doubles as DJ/musician in addition to his film work but after watching “Internal Behavior” it begs to question whether or not he would display the same possibly remote interest in beat, rhythm and pacing that sabotages this film in the same way with his music. With a plot that is hard to follow and even harder to be interested in, “Internal Behavior” seems best suited to be one of those movies that works best as background noise at a party, the less of it that is actually seen, the better it actually seems.
Mark Schaefer
Studio/Production Company:
Super-Natural Films
Genre:
Comedy
Sub-Genre:
Horror/Stoner/Martial Arts/Sci-fi
Length:
Feature
Website:
http://www.super-natural-films.com
Score:
1/5
Unabashedly lo-fi, writer-director Mark Schaefer’s film glories in all things low: culture, technology and class. Amateurishly acted and produced, the film is not without its own ghoulish, gory, kitschy charm but it will probably appeal mostly to those who relate to the stoner type characters that populate the film.
Less focused on compelling story-telling, instead content to concentrate more on style, mood and atmosphere and seemingly more concerned with squeezing as much into the mix of martial arts action, high school comedy, drug humor, criminal activity and horror, the film comes off as little more than Old School Tarantino-light, the sort of low-rent would-be “Pulp Fiction” clones that everyone seemed to be trying to make back in 1995 although also it also recalls the spectacularly cheesy “grindhouse” era films that QT and buddy Robert Rodriguez would later deify in their epic, though similarly erratic “Grindhouse.”
Apparently Schaefer also doubles as DJ/musician in addition to his film work but after watching “Internal Behavior” it begs to question whether or not he would display the same possibly remote interest in beat, rhythm and pacing that sabotages this film in the same way with his music. With a plot that is hard to follow and even harder to be interested in, “Internal Behavior” seems best suited to be one of those movies that works best as background noise at a party, the less of it that is actually seen, the better it actually seems.