{"id":31191,"date":"2024-08-14T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T17:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=31191"},"modified":"2024-08-14T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T21:24:03","slug":"2024-hollyshorts-film-fest-one-for-the-road-greggwmorris-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/2024-hollyshorts-film-fest-one-for-the-road-greggwmorris-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"<small>2024 Hollyshorts Film Fest<\/small><br>ONE FOR THE ROAD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stephen King&#039;s One for the Road Teaser Trailer (2024)\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f0DCCouiD2w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genre:<\/strong> Horror<br \/>\n<strong>Year Released:<\/strong> 2024<br \/>\n<strong>Runtime: <\/strong>9 Minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> Daniel Carsenty<br \/>\n<strong>Writers: <\/strong>Corey Slater, Stephen King<br \/>\n<strong>Cast: <\/strong>Alexander Flores, Travis Hammer, Katie Adler, Elester Latham, Richard Clarke Larsen, Lisa Goodman, Enzo Fabiani<br \/>\n<strong>Where To Watch:<\/strong> showing at the 2024 LA Shorts Film Festival<\/p>\n<p><em>It is generally understood that a major reason \u00a0independent filmmakers make short films is to showcase their talent with the hope that it will result in obtaining funding from investors and or production companies and or film studios to make full-length feature films based on the plot and ideas of the short films.\u00a0 Independent filmmakers want to make money-making, award-winning grand slam feature films and or Netflix specials.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>GoFundMe, Indiegogo and Kickstarter campaigns also have been sources for funding. There are tall tales of people maxing out their credit cards and the credit cards of their families, friends, neighbors and other luv ones. According to a News Chanel 8 story in Tampa, Florida, a 54-year-old film producer who was arrested for robbing a bank in Florida in June 2022 told police he needed the money to keep his movie production company on schedule. He had been out on early release from a previous caper he pulled off for film financing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>And so on \u2026 and so forth<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30536\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-1024x483.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-1024x483.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-560x264.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-260x123.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black-160x75.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/hollyshortslogo2black.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"1\" width=\"60%\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Show Me the $$$<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>ONE FOR THE ROAD \u00ad\u2013 marketed and publicized and whatnot as a horror short genre \u2013 caught my fancy and kept me interested for its full 9 minutes \u2013 especially because horror maestro Stephen King reportedly was involved. \u201cThis is a great horror short film based on a Stephen King short story that just premiered at LA Shorts, and is about to screen HollyShorts on Sunday, August 11 at 12:00 a.m.\u201d was the exact pitch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31201\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-850x1024.jpg 850w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-768x925.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-560x674.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-260x313.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo-160x193.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/onefortheroad-logo.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were a few grisly scenes that made me cringe but there were no goosebumps. I wasn\u2019t spook. The hair on my neck didn\u2019t rise to the occasion. \u00a0I had stopped hiding behind the popcorn box and sitting on the edge of my seat long ago: It has to do with me being an septuagenarian cinema aficionado whose spook-able nerves numbed out long ago and I can\u2019t be un-nerved though there are occasions I can be spooked.<\/p>\n<p>(I\u2019ve had real-like scary-scary experiences living in Jersey City, New Jersey, and heading to my paycheck-gig teaching full time at Hunter College\/CUNY. Commuting on mass transit has it perils and I work on j-projects requiring me to bivouac in the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York City.}<\/p>\n<p>I believe I should note that publicity and marketing and the like listed Stephen King as a co-writer but none of the publicity had a single quote, comment, wisecrack from the inter-galactically known Stephen King. Hmmm.<\/p>\n<p>This film short is suspenseful, to say the least, but I fear if I write too much I will introduce spoilers. I don\u2019t want to do that. But I did find this film review published by <em>Overly Honest Reviews that pretty much gives everything away. <a href=\"https:\/\/mailnewsgroup.com\/ohmr\/facing-fears-in-a-fight-against-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In summary, I think this Hollyshorts short is an early draft blueprint for a film that the filmmakers want to make. I wish them good luck. I can definitely say that plunking down ticket-bucks for ONE OF THE ROAD, as it is in its present succinct cinematic form, will not be a waste of $$$.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7155\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone nonalign\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7155\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/gwm-700x700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Publisher, Editor Gregg W. Morris<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0Can be reached@ gregghc@comcast.net, profgreggwmorris@gmail.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few grisly scenes that made me cringe but overall there were no goosebumps. I wasn\u2019t spooked. The hair on my neck didn\u2019t rise to the occasion. \u00a0Nevertheless, this reviewer thinks what the filmmakers may have in mind for the long term \u2013 typical of independent filmmakers who make film shorts \u2013 could be a goosebumping-hair-raising SCREAM IF THINGS GO THEIR WAY.<BR> \u2013 Article by Gregg W. 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