Review of CarousHELL

CarousHELL (2016)
10/10
Balanced hilarity and horror
10 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I wont give away any spoilers here so I'm not going to say exactly how this happens, but there will be ninja stars, and when you see it, you're going to laugh!

Caroushell is another great indie film out on WildEye Releasing which consistently puts out great TRUE indie films. The camera work was great as well as the audio, editing and all mechanical aspects of the film were done in a professional level of quality (proper focus, recording with a boom mic, proper editing and so on. The practical effects were very well done and comparable to a movie with a higher budget.

"As of 2014, Sundance reported that the average independent film budget was $750,000" (per a 2018 article found on eleven04) To me, "indie" means a group of friends get together, take time off of their day jobs, work off of their own saved funds/run up some credit cards for props, crew, equipment and so on. They do the best film they can in a LIMITED TIME WITH A LIMITED BUDGET, as in they haven't broken into the mainstream of achieved the ability to do filmmaking as their day jobs yet. Films produced for 20 to 30k (or less) seems truer indie in that context. While I did not see any budget information for CarousHell on imdb, it would seem that this film was created somewhere along those lines.
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