zakclyde Shooting guerilla style at Disney World to build a twisted tale is a terrific idea. There's so many directions you could go, ala the Itchy and Scratchy Land episode of The Simpsons. Unfortunately, I left this one feeling a little disappointed. Clearly a lot of effort went into this thing and it's amazing Disney didn't sue, but that alone does not a great film make.

parent_ To start this review off, I enjoyed the movie for what it was. It was absolutely daring, interesting, and was absolutely surreal and impressive for what it accomplished. Let's just get that out of the way first. However, the movie (to me) felt like a mixed bag that could have had more substance to it. I have had plenty of questions after the film that weren't answered subtly in the film or just in general. Here's the thing, I can enjoy movies that are random just to be random, but the randomness has to have a purpose, otherwise, it doesn't mean anything at all. This was just a big problem for me with the whole film, it lacked substance and felt empty and hollow. Just to clarify, I don't expect the answers to be spoon fed to me, but it would've been nice to give clues that led up to the events that had happened, and interpret from there. Another problem that I have had was how the characters felt really two-dimensional and didn't do much for me, as they were basic and simplistic. Another complaint that I have had was the editing, and is another big one. The editing was, to be quite frank, absolutely shoddy and not good. It seemed rushed, looked extremely lazy and looked really bad, in general, especially in a bunch of the scenes where the characters are filmed behind a green screen with footage playing behind the characters, with terrible special effects. Don't get me wrong, the special effects and editing has it's fair share of being good and bad, but it was mostly bad during the 2nd act, and some in the 1st and 3rd act. There was most likely a reason for this because they probably had to rush it out to the public and try not to get in legal trouble, which is what I believe. This would hopefully be the case, as this sounds pretty reasonable.The least I can say is that I was absolutely entertained and intrigued during the whole film. Otherwise, I would recommend this to people who casually watch movies who don't care for interpreting and questioning a film so much. In other words, people who just sit and relax and just enjoy the movie. 6/10

Joseph Pezzuto "Checking in?" "That we are." Opening at Sundance in January 2013, with a reception of mixed reviews afterwards, 'Escape From Tomorrow' is an American fantasy horror film shot in chilling monochrome and shot on location in Walt Disney World and Disneyland...without permission respectively. The cast and skeleton crew used guerrilla filmmaking techniques to avoid attracting attention, keeping their scripts on iPhones and shooting on the video mode of two Canon EOS digital single-lens reflex cameras. Having a reputation for aggressively protecting its intellectual property, Disney has been tolerant of visitors uploading their videos of their visits on YouTube and elsewhere, since most of those user-created videos create a positive atmosphere of the parks. However, director Randy Moore did not expect to get permission to shoot there, given his negative, surreal portrayal of the happiest place on Earth. Though having been compared to the works of Roman Polanski and David Lynch, many who saw the film expressed strong doubts that it would be shown to a wider audience due to legal issues involved and the negative depiction of Disney's theme parks. The company said that they were "aware" of the film and, rather than suppress it, they decided to ignore it, and thus 'Escape' was edited in South Korea and released simultaneously to theaters and video-on-demand on October 11, 2013, through PDA, a Cinetic Media company. So...why does this film exist again? Let's take a look.We open on a shirtless Jim White (Roy Abramsohn), an American everyman on the balcony of the hotel of which he and his family are vacationing at the aforementioned theme park with his wife and two kids. Upon his boss calling him and informing him that he has lost his job, he keeps the news to himself as to not upset the family's remaining time at the resort on their last day there. Taking the monorail to the park, he encounters two Parisian girls named Isabelle (Annet Mahendru) and Sofie (Danielle Safady), and his interests and inner lusts for them increases as their paths cross repeatedly in the park either by accident or by means of deliberation. After a fight with his wife Emily (Elena Schuber) in not taking their son Elliot on Space Mountain (which gives him motion sickness) he then takes his daughter Sara to the Magic Kingdom rides only to keep up his pursuit of the French girls.On the night of the premiere, film critic Drew McWeeny wrote: "It is not possible that this film exists". It is actually hard for me to believe as well...but it does. While others may see this as such, or as just a terrible movie, I see it more as of a character study...whilst also agreeing with everyone else, of course. Perhaps the happiest place on Earth is not only black and white to our eyes but through the eyes of Jim as well...not only when he had lost his job that day but maybe the whole time he was in fact there. The magical utopia that are Disney theme parks of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, for him, have become nothing more than a flavorless underworld of disturbing animatronics, princesses posing as hookers for rich Asian businessmen and finally, with hilarious but stupid effects (After Effects mostly throughout), the cat flu. Reported on Movies.com that people were already calling it "the ultimate guerrilla film", the tedious flick plays out as if its viewers are stuck in a car on a ride polar-opposite from The Haunted Mansion: A man is decapitated riding Big Thunder Mountain, 'JESUS' is written in the sky, a scientist is really an android. And the viewer may never look at the Epcot Center the same way again after Jim makes an observation a la double-entendre. Audaciously chimerical,smutty, uncomfortably dark and poignantly surrealistic, 'Escape From Tomorrow' lingers in the mind long afterwards and definitely remains an offbeat thriller nonetheless of relentless and inventive film-making, showing us the power of what can truly be done with a micro-budget over the power of imagination. I personally have not had my own personal 'Escape' experience when I paid my ticket to see Uncle Walt last summer in California, but I did however smile to myself while waiting in line that I had indeed seen the movie, and the only comparison between the Disney theme parks and that film are this...in that they both exist.

sweeneytoddmusical Warning: This review may be strongly opinionated.I did not like this film as a Disney fan, or even a horror fan. I was sort of expecting him to imagine this all out machine-uprising in the middle of one of my favorite parks, but instead it's just some weird cat based, sexual mental illness? I'm not even sure I understood exactly what this movie was about.And I was heavily annoyed by the constant unclear cuts between shots filmed in DISNEYLAND and shots filmed in Disney WORLD. This may be just because I've got autism, but I am very particular about anything involving my Disney...I was also very upset by the mother having such an issue with her man even so much as touching her arm in front of the kids, and I became really enraged with her as an annoying character when she denied her little girl just one freaking balloon and then slapped her across the face in public. I know she was anxious because she knew her husband was eyeing another girl, but still... What the fudge?? Why, just because of that, yell at your kid at a Disney park and tell her she can't have a Mickey balloon before hitting her? It's not her fault. At this point, the mom was BEYOND help for me, and I felt sorry for the kids when I saw their father died and they were left with mommy. The dad, even with his issues, seemed to be a way better parent. He knew when to be more firm, and when not to be, and he was really trying to make this vacation the best one his kids ever had. He was even willing to wait in the longest line ever for his son to ride Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin. The mom DID take the daughter on the Teacups and Dumbo, but that was about the most fun she ever allowed either kid to have with her around at the parks. Everything else almost was her controlling everything. (Except on the Three Caballeros, I could understand her making them look at things they weren't looking at already there.) Also, this didn't bug me really but I would be curious to ask the daughter why she thought Queen Grimhilde was so scary??? I wasn't afraid of her at that age. :/ As a matter of fact, I really liked her as a Disney villainess from a young age. I'm really glad they still made her go on the Snow White ride though- because in watching this movie I got to "go with them" on my favorite "deceased" ride once again, this time in a really cool looking black and white tint palette.Anyway though, I'll give it to the movie directors for trying to make something bold. Maybe this movie just isn't my cup of tea. But I certainly won't recommend it to my fellow Walt Disney fanatics- the EPCOT ball catches on fire and explodes in an ugly vision, the mother forces the family to go to the non-classic fireworks that are not featured at Cinderella Castle, for the love of god if you love It's A Small World do not watch this movie, and if you're a die-hard fan and you know about Walt's issue with names... You may have mixed feelings about them referring to him as "Mr. W". He ASKED to be called WALT. Not "Mr. Disney", not "Mr. Walt", not "Mr. W". Just WALT.Also, try not to let it annoy you that the Princesses at the parks are NOT wearing official Disney Parks Cast Member Princess gowns, if things like that do annoy you.Looking at this movie from a horror genre point of view, the black and white was a nicely suspenseful item, but it did nothing to hide the fake special effects and makeup. But since this is a fairly new movie, I'm guessing those things were a deliberate move. Maybe for comedy relief. I often never realize it when a black comedy bites me in the rear end. The only time I've ever realized it was with Sweeney Todd... And maybe Beetlejuice. Tim Burton's been the only man ever to be able to help me know a black comedy when I see it. In that case, this movie is pretty bold, if it is a black comedy. It's a good try, and for the horror fans, worth at least one watch, maybe. But it is definitely not an award winner.