Got To Watch Snowblind

A few days ago, I (and about a hundred other bloggers) posted about Snowblind, described by it's creators as "...true film making 2.0: Community-powered, fan-based, graphic-novel grindhousy goodness… Shot on our own money and post-produced in endless hours of unpaid work."  I also mentioned it's completely free to watch, so the other night I got the chance to fire it up via their YouTube channel.

Snowblind is billed as a post-apocalyptic spaghetti western.  Imagine the Man With No Name riding around on a motorcycle and carrying a fully-automatic scope-mounted sniper rifle, and you can get an idea of how Snowblind feels.  Clocking in at just over 90 minutes, it's shot almost entirely against a green screen, so basically in almost every shot, nothing that you're looking at other than the actors and props is really there.  Everything, from the forests and buildings, to the walls and floors of the rooms they're standing in, was added in post-production. 

This gives Snowblind what I thought was a really cool look.  There was some strangeness about it, like the way they never left footprints in the snow, but overall, I thought it was pretty amazing how they could create all of those settings digitally, and make you think the actors were really there.

Story-wise, I thought it was great; it had a plot right out of a 70's western. A "notorious gunman" is given a last-second reprieve from execution, and is sent on a mission to assasinate an aging gunfighter who crossed the Governor one too many times.  But of course, there's more to the story, and that "more" involves a girl, a very pretty girl in fact.

So given the price, it's absolutely worth watching.  And I'm hoping enough of you will want to show your support by paying just $5.60 to download the hi-def version that the producers will be able to finance a run on blu-ray.  I'll definitely buy it if they do.