Here's a movie I've long been interested in. It's a very amateur effort, but it's famous for the way it was made: in Disney World, in secret. The film follows a family of four, mainly the father, as he endures a psychological breakdown in the middle of Disney World. The way it was filmed is that film crews consisted of regular-looking dudes with handheld video cameras, not unlike what you'd expect to see, in general, if you went to Disney World. Disney has chosen to ignore the film's existence rather than pursue legal action, which is a big win for fair use law.
Anyway, the shame of it all is that the movie really isn't very good. It starts out as this deeply disturbing piece of psychological horror, one I had to look away from constantly. But it ends up being this ridiculous and absurd and silly pile of campy bullshit. Is Disney World hell on earth? Yeah, probably - but this film would have been better and stronger if it had anything bigger or more controversial than that to say! Oh well. Glad I finally caught this one, even if it wasn't very good.
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