Review of Escape from Tomorrow (2013) by Ian G — 10 Oct 2014

Probably a film that will be more remembered as the guriella filmmaking tribute to the 90's (smuggling into Disneyland to tell twisted take of shannigans in the park) then for anything else, filmmaker Randy Moore did get a lot of attention at the 2013 Sundance Film Fest with Escape from Tommorow which focuses on a father who has just lost his undisclosed job on the day he is about to take his family to Disneyland and how seemingly his reality and various folibles start getting the better of him while trying to hide the recent news from his family.

Two parisian minors, various hallucinations through the various rides, a mentally fraught nurse and a conspiracy nut former Disney Princess claiming the park is naught what is seems hint at some corporations behind the scenes having some evil plans that involve his son and a strange connection to his past.

The Black and White vidoegraphy defintely add a sense of foreboding and creepiness to the proceedings and the consumer camera they shot on also harkens back to the Kevin Smith method of casual observance of his Clerks days which service the story well, but it seems given the locale of the film, the filmmakers maybe held back a bit? Also dug how the tone made things feel like it is a bunch of milennials visting a place stuck in time in the 60's, or at least another time.

Intriguing on a curiosity level.