Are you ready for 20,000 spoonfuls of terror?
In the pre-YouTube era, it was generally assumed that a short film was a director's calling card, a stepping stone to prove that talent and resourcefulness lay within and that great things could be obtained with a real budget. These days more people seem to be interested in watching YouTube videos than committing to a feature anyway -- hence the success of Richard Gale's "The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon." The weapon is a spoon, and the short's a fake trailer that promises a nine-hour spectacle of one tormented soul being repeatedly rapped all over his body with it. Gale, a veteran of LA's cable TV scene, previously directed a few straight-to-video thrillers. But now, according to Twitch's Todd Brown,, Gale's been omnipresent at various genre, shorts and standard festivals worldwide, "screening this film to packed houses and -- more often than not -- collecting a nice...
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