FIRST BLOOD
Director: Conor Buro. With: Ed Hartland, Jared Rogers, Yasen Atour, Octavia Gilmore, Kaitlin Reynell. UK 2021. 86 mins.
When Norman Graysmith (Jared Rogers, THE KINDRED) is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle (writer/producer Ed Hartland, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career. What could possible go wrong? Especially as Aidan is a particularly inept homicidal maniac and fledgling filmmaker Graysmith is willing to do anything stupid to achieve his ambition. A spirited comedy horror mockumentary that’s both outrageously dark and gut-wrenchingly funny, you will be engaged from frame one as the camera becomes a character allowing for a heightened sense of ‘fly on the wall’ reality.