Thursday 12 December 2013

Last Kind Words Independent Film Case Study

17-year-old Eli has just moved with his family deep into the backwoods of Kentucky to work on the isolated farm of a local recluse. Inexplicably drawn into the strange forest that lies beyond the farm, Eli encounters the beautiful, sweet and mysterious Amanda, seemingly the perfect girl. But with the discovery of decaying bodies hanging from the trees, he realizes that the forest - and Amanda - are harboring some very dark secrets. Suddenly, Eli is living in a waking nightmare where the lines between life and death are scrawled in blood, and there is no escaping the terror from beyond the grave.

This film is produced by Brainwave and The East Gable, neither of these are main Hollywood film studios, and was directed by Kevin Barker, who is known for his independent films such as Five Fingers. The main actors in the film are Brad Dourif, Spencer Daniels and Alexia Fast, none of these had major roles in films before but have appeared in some films as lesser characters.


The film's budget was originally estimated to be less than $100,000, in other words a micro-budget. This film is clearly an independent film it was produced by small film studios, only stars relatively small actors and was produced at a cost estimated at less than $100,000. Unfortunately this film has not won any awards and has only received a rating of 4.9/10 from 685 users on popular website IMDb.


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