Nothing like checking out a new project and being ready to write it off, but then it smacks you in the face. Such was my experience over at the Official Site for Gareth Evans’ FOOTSTEPS. It all started with the synopsis:
The CAMERAMAN makes snuff tapes – beatings, murders, rape. Those indebted to him are forced to torture the forgotten and ignored.
ANDREW is in his early 20’s – emasculated, humiliated, lost.
His parents are dead and gone, and Andrew is left inconsolable. Afraid that those he loves he loses, Andrew pushes all who care for him away until he is left alone. When a final bid to escape his nihilism brutally and tragically fails he is left abandoned in an underpass. And here, in the pitch of night, a solitary light finds him as the Cameraman approaches with a debtor in tow.
Salvation or damnation, this encounter will lead Andrew to walk down a path far darker than he ever dared fear.
Sorta interesting, although I’m always suspicious of overly text-y synopsis’, so there was nothing to do but watch the trailer. Truthfully the first 80% of it felt booooooring, but then the madness kicked in and the last 20% made me think this one might just deliver.
So creep over to the Official Site and see if it punches your buttons. Classic in the making, general good time, or just another failed attempt at indie horror? Spit bullets when you decide, ’cause we wanna know what you think!
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