Copycat is a 2015 documentary short film by Charlie Shackleton.
Summary
1989: 19 year-old filmmaker Rolfe Kanefsky gathered $100,000 to make There's Nothing Out There, an early example of a meta-horror film. A decade later, it tanked at the box office despite critical acclaim. Then, suddenly... Rolfe gave a copy of the film to Jonathan Craven, a young executive who is also the son of famed film director Wes Craven (who would later create the box office hit Scream, which is eerily similar to There's Nothing Out There).
See also
- Postmodernist film
- Rodney King riots - one of the reasons why the film tanked
- Vulgar auteurism
References
- MUBI
- A Scary Hollywood Rip-Off - The Atlantic
- Short of the Week
- Watch: Charlie Lyne’s Copycat, A Short Film About the Proto-Scream|Filmmaker Magazine
- The Obscure 1990 Horror Movie That May Have Inspired Wes Craven's Scream|Mental Floss
External links
- Copycat on The Atlantic's official YouTube channel
- Copycat on IMDb
- Copycat on Shackleton's official Vimeo channel