Viral marketing can play a formidable role in capturing the public’s attention, and some indie filmmakers are really giving it their all in an effort to get their film noticed amongst the dozens of low-budget genre titles that flood video stores (er, Netflix?) each month.
Case in point: If you head on over to 30 Days to Death, you’ll find an elaborate series of journal entries from a young man named Clint, claiming that he will take his own life at the end of thirty days. The entries had some people believing this to be a bona fide cry for help but ended up as an elaborate promotion for filmmaker Layton Matthews’ upcoming Death Perception, a supernatural, metaphysical study of depression and suicide.
When asked to describe Death Perception, writer/director Matthews said, "This is a story about a young person who has altered his own perception to avoid...
Case in point: If you head on over to 30 Days to Death, you’ll find an elaborate series of journal entries from a young man named Clint, claiming that he will take his own life at the end of thirty days. The entries had some people believing this to be a bona fide cry for help but ended up as an elaborate promotion for filmmaker Layton Matthews’ upcoming Death Perception, a supernatural, metaphysical study of depression and suicide.
When asked to describe Death Perception, writer/director Matthews said, "This is a story about a young person who has altered his own perception to avoid...
- 5/21/2009
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
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