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2 years, 9 months ago - Jim Read

Heya all,

I recently got a Shudder subscription on a Black Friday whim - and I've been gleefully trawling through mid-tier horror after mid-tier horror, simply because it's a genre in itself I know is always going to spark my attention in some way.

I watched We're All Going to the World's Fair and it basically did, nearing exactly an idea I've been mulling over for some time. (I was an internet teen, back in the hellhole days of unmoderated Tumblr and wanted to make something about the whole whack experience, how it probably still affects me now, but also the never-ending feeling of - what did happen to all those people?)

It's a great film, and I'd strongly recommend it. Was kinda shocked I hadn't heard of it before because hello?! indie trans-directed horror at Sundance? Was I under a rock at this time or something? It's great, interestingly told, politely understated at points and leaves you with a lot of room to grow into what interests you most in it all.

But yeah - have you had that film which you'd been thinking "That's. Literally. The. Idea. I. Had. Done. -insert nothing/only something- here- With." and worse yet... with a budget that would have been realistic to what you'd have been trying with?

P.S. How did you get over a creative slump after? (If you even had one...)

This idea has been my long "at least I've got that on the back burner" idea for some time, and the rest of the ideas for docs I've had are pretty drab. Pair that with a sweet loathing of "GOD I WISH I'D DONE A BIT MORE THAN CORPORATE NONSENSE WHEN I HAD MORE SPARE TIME" I'm creatively stumped. Onwards and upwards ༄ؘ ۪۪۫۫ ▹▫◃ ۪۪۫۫༄ؘ