PseudoPod 708: Tenderizer (https://pseudopod.org/2020/06/19/pseudopod-708-tenderizer/)
Author: Stephen Graham Jones (https://pseudopod.org/people/stephen-graham-jones/)
Narrator: Eric Luke (https://pseudopod.org/people/eric-luke/)
Host: Alasdair Stuart (https://pseudopod.org/people/alasdair-stuart/)
Audio Producer: Marty Perrett (https://pseudopod.org/people/marty-perrett/)
“Tenderizer” was first published in the movie themed anthology The Cutting Room where it shared a Table of Contents with “Final Girl Theory” (https://pseudopod.org/2012/06/22/pseudopod-287-final-girl-theory/) by A.C. Wise.
Content Warning:
death of a child, school shooting
Brutal Is the Night: A Review
Remember The Blair Witch Project’s marketing campaign? It was an update of sorts on 1971s The Last House on the Left, except where Wes Craven would have us keep reminding ourselves that it’s just a movie, it’s just a movie, Blair Witch kept whispering that this was actual found footage. Its the same dynamic, though; it was tapping the same sensationalistic vein.
Writer/director Sean Mickles knows this vein very well. And, for Tenderizer, he let it bleed.
As you probably recall, the first trailer was released as a “rough cut,” with the media outlets quoting Mickles’s grumbled objection that Tenderizer wasn’t ready, that production difficulties were built into a project like this, weren’t they?
Speculation was that he just wasn’t ready to let it go, of course.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
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I enjoyed the narration. The story? It didn't grab me. I think I'm burned out trying to teach high school science remotely during this pandemic. I spent the entire story trying to parse the plot apart
. Ah well... :-X