The Secret Horror Film Made Without Disney's Permission

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SOURCES:
The original Wikipedia starting point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_...
Tom Corless (2017) via Wow News Today: wdwnt.com/2017/10/today-marks...
Tim Wu (2013) via The New Yorker: www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...
Corey Doctorow (2013) via Boingboing.net: boingboing.net/2013/01/21/mor...
Jane Schoenbrun interview with Randy Moore (2013) via Filmmaker Magazine: filmmakermagazine.com/63249-f...
David Ehrlich interview with Randy Moore (2013) via MTV: www.mtv.com/news/5vvts1/inter...
Danny Miller interview with Randy Moore (2013) via Cinephiled: www.cinephiled.com/interview-...

[@RyanHollinger]

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[@thomasdegroat6039]

So funny how the whole marketing around this film was "watch this before Disney sues it out of existence!" and then Disney just ended up not caring in the slightest

[@_The_Archive_]

Fun Fact: Director Randy Moore had the actors ride through the "It's a Small World" attraction 12 times to get one scene right.

[@kmjl93]

To be fair, having to wait in the long lines in the hot Florida sun with screaming kids everywhere is a horror piece on its own.

[@darkninjafirefox]

What a cool movie this could be if it was from the kid's perspectives. A seemingly magical day out with your family slowly unraveling into a resentful nightmare of a day out as you realize your parents are not only not enjoying themselves but are becoming angrier and angrier with each other until it bubbles over onto you. The park morphing into a frightening and unwelcoming place

[@danielaxc2900]

My favorite part of this movie was when Jenny Nicholson made a brutal takedown about it and also delved into Randy Moores odd quirks. But yeah, this movie is not what I'd consider Lynchian or surreal. It just seems pretentious and cynical, which is a bummer since it seems like it had real potential based on the premise.

[@unicornalq11]

Imo there’s so many actual things that we can and should criticize Disney for. The treatment and low pay of workers. The attacks on smaller creators, etc. I feel like Randy, in addition to making what is in my opinion a bad movie, glosses over actual problems with the corporation and just focuses on…things that probably were just mildly annoying to him when he went with his family (weird food, pushy employees, and uh…his kind of gross fixation on overweight guests using mobility aids…) it just feels so “I’m 12 and this is edgy.”

[@wstine79]

Ryan's retrospective review of "Escape from Tomorrow" is more entertaining than the movie itself.

[@thevblog]

It’s wild that Randy Moore had a rubbish family holiday at Disneyland and decided it to make it all our problem.

[@spicybeantofu]

I feel you've given this movie too much credit.

[@W0lfenstrike]

This movie kind of reeks of "edgy pretentiousness", with the only thing going on being "look guys look! Disney's lawyers are just standing there... MENACINGLY!".

[@WhaleManMan]

Fun Fact: This is this directors only film.

[@SteveElOtaku]

I feel like Disney probably watched the film, realized it was mostly a self-important student film about how "Local Man Hates Amusement Parks And His Wife" and just let it die, leaving it to be picked over by video essayists years later. Nothing more punishing for a man demanding attention to be utterly denied it.

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Someone on Some Jerk With a Cameras review of it called it “softcore porn for people who hate themselves” and i think thats the most accurate description of this

[@clarkmichaels822]

Disney absolutely made the right move with ignoring this movie. Not only did it prevent the Streisand Effect but by letting people see for themselves how terrible it was, it killed all hype about itself.

[@Darkthestral1]

The fact that Randy thought Jim was likable is still baffling. It's an intetesting read on the film even if you have to disregard most of Randy's own intentions to get there. Death of the author ect

[@emilybroderick2421]

I think this video and Jenny Nicholson's are the most press this film has received since the year it came out. And that's for the best

[@cometoviddy]

I think you’re giving it more credit than it deserves

[@deltavictor8369]

Jenny Nicholson's video on this on ("Escape from Tomorrow is a dumb exercise in misery") is a good watch for another perspective on the film

[@kellydavis3219]

One of the weirdest things about Randy you get from listening to interviews with him is how much he genuinely believes that stupid old rumor that the giant turkey legs are really emu, he has the witch lady bring it up because it's wholeheartedly what he believes