Shadows and Foag

Paramoral Activity (2009)

Starring: Micah Stoat, Katie Featherstote Directed by: Oren Utah Rating: R Genre: Horrific Other

Review Imagine a world where your children live inside your television set, and old people refuse to come out of the shadows and die. In a first, director Oren Utah ("Bedbugs") shot this thriller on his iphone and immediately distributed it to theaters via MMS (thank you, finally, Mr. Att!). Painstakingly researched, the film presents Micah Stoat ("Crackers in the Bed") and Katie Featherstote ("Trial by Murder 2: Jive Torture") as a couple who move into a house only to discover that their children moved in before they (the children) have even been born and plan on giving birth to their parents on a live television show. Meanwhile, old people run around naked, hoping to appear on a video that the couple are shooting to present to their as-yet-unborn children. No, it doesn't make any sense to me either, but Utah's crappy cinematography and cheap, bizarre lighting capture more of what we fear about the ones we love than any number of "crazy" clowns ever could. It's not great. In fact it stinks. But so do loneliness and the fear of dying alone and forgotten. Check it out!