#drew casson

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WATCHED

I watched it, yes. But recommend it? No.

Good for a beginner film maker etc. But for a viewer it had little substance. It felt like a pilot of tv series, but a really bad tv series.

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HUNGERFORD

Just to be incredibly judgmental for no good reason: When will men learn that there is absolutely no social currency, mainstream or alternative, gained by a gigantic head of long curly floofy hair? When your most immediate celebrity kin are like, AJ Miller, Blake Anderson, and fucking Carrot Top, what are you expecting to get out of this look? You'd think the only possible answer is "comedy", and yet I always have this sense that everybody not on the above list thinks there's something excitingly manly about this "lion's mane", something virile and unpredictable, as if every girl's dream is to bang her way through Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. I have an unpleasant inkling that a lot of guys who cultivate this coif believe in their hearts that they're the second coming of 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, and their earholes are just so occluded by their own bouncy swirly locks that they can't hear the public telling them that it just isn't fucking happening.

The person I'm specifically complaining about is Drew Casson, the director and co-writer and star and visual effects artist behind HUNGERFORD, a tiresome slog that combines three of the most worn out subgenres in recent memory: fast zombies, found footage, and YA adventure. Casson has cast himself as the courageous leader of a gang of misfit teens who find face off against an invasion of alien parasites that transform their friends and neighbors into violent monsters. When I first laid eyes on "Cowen Rosewell", as his character is preposterously called, I thought maybe this was supposed to be a broad comedy about a bunch of losers, ala SHAUN OF THE DEAD. However, the movie is neither funny enough nor humble enough, nor even stylized enough, to give it the benefit of this doubt.

The only novel thing that HUNGERFORD does is remind us that teenagers (or reasonable approximations thereof) are not sleek, beautiful action heroes or angelic lovers. They're gross, stupid, loud, fungus-y homunculi with no taste and a grating sense of humor. Not that I think Casson sets out to make this point, but his cast makes the point for him, in spite of themselves. In some ways, that's actually sort of refreshing, given the pedo-y state of popular culture. Anyway, just in case you don't believe that this whole thing is meant sincerely as a vanity project, and not a self-effacing comedy, just take a look at any of the mortifying photographs of Casson on his iMDB page. You'll be sad you did.

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via Joshua Kane's Instagram // Asa Butterfield BTS of the 'JK Fantasy' Short Film! The green screen was used for the CGI/Special Effects!

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Asa Butterfield with Joshua Kane and Drew Casson

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Part 3 of the "JK Fantasy" film in OUT NOW! You can view it below, on Vimeo or on Joshua Kane's Official Website, JoshuaKaneStore.com! Actor: Asa Butterfield Director/Designer: Joshua Kane Picture/CGI: Drew Casson Sound: The Psych

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via Instagram // Rough sketches, photographs and props from the 'JKFantasy' Short Films, in which Butterfield is the lead (Tailoring/Designing by Joshua Kane, CGI/Special Effects by Drew Casson & Sound by The Psych) PT3

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via Instagram // Featuring Asa Butterfield for The FALL Magazine (Tailoring/Photography by Joshua Kane). Also rough sketches, photographs and props from the 'JKFantasy' Short Films, in which Butterfield is the lead (CGI/Special Effects by Drew Casson & Sound by The Psych) PT2

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A London Newspaper called the "Evening Standard Magazine" gave a review on Joshua Kane's recently released fantasy short called '3 Tailors' starring actor, Asa Butterfield! (You can read the review on the Sept. 4th issue of ESM, located on page 18.)