A Necessary Death is a faux documentary from writer/director Daniel Stamm (The Last Exorcism). It follows student filmmaker Gilbert (G.J. Echternkamp) as he produces his senior project, a documentary about suicide. His crew, Valerie (Valerie Hurt) and Michael (Michael Traynor), are less comfortable with it, but they get sucked into the project once they pick the film's subject Matt (Matthew Tilley), a young man with terminal cancer. As they explore Matt's life and document the way he plans to kill himself, Valerie and Michael grow closer to Matt and feel increasingly uneasy about standing by while he kills himself.
Throughout the entire ordeal, Gilbert is an insufferable pseudo-artist who throws around lines about pushing buttons and how art isn't really art if it doesn't upset audiences. In reality, he is blinded by his own ambition to the point where he insists that the suicidal subject of his documentary must...
Throughout the entire ordeal, Gilbert is an insufferable pseudo-artist who throws around lines about pushing buttons and how art isn't really art if it doesn't upset audiences. In reality, he is blinded by his own ambition to the point where he insists that the suicidal subject of his documentary must...
- 7/21/2012
- by Rachel Kolb
- JustPressPlay.net
Chicago – Daniel Stamm’s “A Necessary Death” was such a conversation starter on the film festival scene that it essentially served as the calling card that got its director the job helming the excellent and underrated “The Last Exorcism.” In many ways, “And” is a better film. It’s a challenging work that uses a taboo subject in daring ways and is clearly the work of a talent to watch. It’s also finally available on DVD after years of being held back from the market (it was first released in 2008). Don’t miss it.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
A documentary filmmaker takes out an ad looking for someone who wants to die. He wants to make a film about something that we still don’t truly understand and most people aren’t willing to talk about — suicide. We’re scared to talk about suicide. Most of us don’t understand it or its motivations.
Rating: 4.0/5.0
A documentary filmmaker takes out an ad looking for someone who wants to die. He wants to make a film about something that we still don’t truly understand and most people aren’t willing to talk about — suicide. We’re scared to talk about suicide. Most of us don’t understand it or its motivations.
- 6/13/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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In 2008 a young director by the name of Daniel Stamm introduced a truly shocking little film onto the festival circuit. So controversial was the movie that Stamm was nearly lynched in Kosovo after screening a rough cut of it at a festival there. Eventually the buzz around A Necessary Death led the filmmaker to his biggest gig, The Last Exorcism. Deemed too odd to market by most distributors, the flick quietly hit DVD via Mpi home video and is now available for download via iTunes. If you haven't seen it, you should really give it a look as calling it unique is a bit of an understatement.
In 2008 a young director by the name of Daniel Stamm introduced a truly shocking little film onto the festival circuit. So controversial was the movie that Stamm was nearly lynched in Kosovo after screening a rough cut of it at a festival there. Eventually the buzz around A Necessary Death led the filmmaker to his biggest gig, The Last Exorcism. Deemed too odd to market by most distributors, the flick quietly hit DVD via Mpi home video and is now available for download via iTunes. If you haven't seen it, you should really give it a look as calling it unique is a bit of an understatement.
- 6/8/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
In 2008 a young director by the name of Daniel Stamm introduced a truly shocking little film onto the festival circuit. So controversial was the movie that Stamm was nearly lynched in Kosovo after screening a rough cut of it at a festival there. Eventually the buzz around A Necessary Death led the filmmaker to his biggest gig, The Last Exorcism.
Deemed too odd to market by most distributors, the flick quietly hit DVD via Mpi home video last Tuesday and if you haven't seen it, you should really give it a look as calling it unique is a bit of an understatement. A Necessary Death stars Matthew Tilley and G.J. Echternkamp. Check out the artwork and a trailer below.
Synopsis
Film student Gilbert (Gj Echternkamp) has a novel idea for his final thesis project -- find someone who wants to kill themselves and follow them through the final days of their life.
Deemed too odd to market by most distributors, the flick quietly hit DVD via Mpi home video last Tuesday and if you haven't seen it, you should really give it a look as calling it unique is a bit of an understatement. A Necessary Death stars Matthew Tilley and G.J. Echternkamp. Check out the artwork and a trailer below.
Synopsis
Film student Gilbert (Gj Echternkamp) has a novel idea for his final thesis project -- find someone who wants to kill themselves and follow them through the final days of their life.
- 6/4/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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