Russian Kazakh filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov recently discussed his predilection for computer screen-based movies.
In case you’re not sure what the heck that is, think of the horror film Unfriended, which Bekmambetov produced.
Have you seen Unfriended? Well if not then Searching may be the next movie that peeks your interest.
Like The Blair Witch Project back in the day opening a new way of filming horror movies, Timur Bekmambetov is using computer screen-based movies as a new lane of horror. Read on to get more on this new genre by Timur Bekmambetov…
CelebNMovies247.com has the latest in the horror genre of filmmaking by Russian Kazakh filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov.
This new style of filmmaking which was once looked at as “found footage”, has developed into an on-screen style of storytelling is quickly evolving into its own sub-genre.
Bekmambetov also produced the sequel Unfriended: Dark Web (although it only lasted in theaters for a week), the upcoming Searching has more potential to be the breakout of the genre. Both films explore the featured computer screen storytelling.
Bekmambetov says in the piece to the LA Times:
I don’t know if it’s bad or good, but I feel that half of my life — the most important events of my life — are happening on screen today. I’m finding friends, losing friends, falling in love, losing people I love, making projects, collaborating and fighting and arguing.
Bekmambetov uses a technology called Screenlife to capture an on-screen narrative.
The producer of Wanted and the terrible Ben Hur remake goes on to say:
Overall what Screenlife gives you is it puts you inside the character. You are inside your hero — not only visually but emotionally because you’re making mistakes, you’re deleting and changing your mind.
The Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter producer concludes by saying:
Any genre could be reinterpreted in a Screenlife language. A full slate of 14 new movies in the works over the next 18 months including comedies and romantic comedies.
What are your thoughts on these types of films?
