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Ages and ages ago I remember disturbed whispers whispering about some scary movie called S&Man (pronounced sandman). The film is from 2006 and apparently presents itself, or is, a documentary about the disturbing world of hardcore fetish films sneaking up to and including snuff. That sentence should end with a question mark. I don't remember the early whispers I heard way back when and I'm keeping my eyes off the descriptions and reviews now because the film's finally getting a release, four years after it was made. It's playing in Brooklyn for one week starting tomorrow - and the director will be there tomorrow, too - and then it'll be on DVD on October 12th. You can read more over at BD. Here's the trailer:

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In between those long gone whispers I'd heard about the film and this news of its release, I actually caught the director JT Petty's most recent film on Netflix, called The Burrowers. Never got around to properly reviewing that one but it's a solid movie, the sort that finishes and you go and look up the director to see what else they've done, and see the title S&Man and then think hey, I remember hearing good things about that, and then you see if it's on DVD and it isn't, so you see if it's online anywhere and it ain't, and so you get frustrated and put it out of your mind for a couple of weeks and then WHAM news comes on it like a magical spray of faerie dust in your face. WHAM.


Still The Burrowers has some great moments - it reminded me a lot of Dead Birds, another low-budget horror flick with creepy crawly type things in a Western setting. Both of these are underrated and well worth watching.
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