Mortal Remains first bled on my radar a couple of years ago while on vacation in Evans City, PA. I was asked that very same question I posed to you, dear reader, earlier. "Do you remember Karl Atticus?"
Some herald long-forgotten, fringe filmmaker Atticus as a purveyor of the modern Slasher film with his last film, Mortal Remains, being a topic of discussion and debate for decades, even after it had fallen under the banner of a "lost film". Bizarre tales from its filming and even stranger occurrences when it was once screened for the public serve as a launching point into the abyss.
Horror fans since birth, filmmakers Mark Ricche and Christian Stavrakis set out to uncover the truths about Mortal Remains and Karl Atticus in this riveting docu-thriller. Through interviews with those who knew and worked with him, Ricche and Stavrakis find themselves closer and closer to Atticus and his hallmark film, with each clue they unearth.
This film itself carries with it a sense of foreboding dread as Ricche and Stavrakis plummet deeper into their search and inch closer to a horrifying truth. From the outset, it doesn't feel like such a great idea to be digging up something that maybe should have stayed lost.
Throughout the film, with each new discovery, both men go back and forth as to whether they should continue the film. Though when one of them appears obsessed with finishing the search, it's quite clear what their decision is.
In today's Horror world, the idea of unearthing a lost or forgotten film is something that a lot of genre fans can easily get behind. Let's face it, we live in an era now where film as a medium is disappearing and we're unfortunately losing source materials for far too many pictures that may have only seen the light of drive-in movie theater projectors forty or more years ago. With that said, I'm right there with our heroes as they search for clues about Karl Atticus!
Mortal Remains is the best genre film that you haven't seen yet! If you're a Horror fan, you owe it to yourself to check this one out.
See it!
For more info and to purchase the film, check out Cryptic Pictures website!
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