Waking Up In Film
Goofy in Hell
During Thanksgiving break of 2007, I found myself staying with my brother in Denver. It was about 12:30am (this was well before my current 10 hour job, so I could still afford to keep such late nights) and my brother had gone to bed, leaving me to my own devices. Left with a camera, an empty apartment, and no desire for sleep, an idea struck me for a one-man film. So, for the next three to four hours, I improvised a short film.
The concept was based on the old Goofy cartoons I used to love watching as a kid. You know the ones; tounge in cheek instructional films with Goofy as our everyman attempting some form of activity, i.e. skiing, weight training, driving. And of course, Goofy being who he is, it would all end in chaos. All the while, an ever present narrator would offer his unhelpful and (most of the time) irrelevant comments to the procedings.
Essentially, "Waking Up in Film" is a Goofy cartoon in Hell, with Howard Mendel as our long-suffering everyman thrust into an insane circumstance. I had a lot of fun making this film and I hope you enjoy it.
Note: I tried to fashion the narration after David J Skall, a noted horror film historian. I'm not entirely sure why. It just seemed appropriate.
-Steve