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Latest News:January 3rd, 2007 by Carolyn Schuk For all the talk about IPTV and Video on the Net, Web video has really been just another place to watch what you could watch on TV - just as the Web was initially just another place to put your print advertising. I can hear you saying, "But what about YouTube?" You mean the place where I can watch my 16 year-old's friends making the same faces we used to make at that age in coin-operated four-for-a-dollar photo booths? Thanks, but no thanks. The fact is, aside from watching a clip of the NY Times' Maureen Dowd on the Daily Show and Eminem's Michael Jackson take-off video, I haven't come across much of anything I would chose to watch instead of, say, reading last week's New Yorker. Until now...
In a nutshell: Carma is a full-length horror movie created entirely by a pair of Silicon Valley software engineers. It was written on a Palm Pilot, filmed on a Panasonic 24p (high-definition, film-quality) digital camcorder, edited on a Macintosh laptop, and distributed by FastMovie.TV (an Internet pay-per-view system with DVD quality) as streaming video - no download wait. No Hollywood studios in sight. And that's the point. But as interesting as all this is, the question remains: Is Carma entertainment? Despite its unorthodox birth, the quality of this film is in fact every bit as good as a Hollywood product.
The story is about an abandoned car haunted by a psychopath's dead mother and the inevitability of fate (Get it? Car-Ma). Imagine Quentin
Tarantino meets Steven King, with a good helping of Alfred Hitchcock and No Exit thrown into the mix with an appropriately creepy soundtrack. Karen Black, who starred in Five Easy Pieces and Alfred Hitchcock's last movie, Family Plot, provides the voice of the demonic mom.
To watch the movie, go to carmamovie.com, where you can also see free previews and buy a DVD. You'll need to download DivX, but the site provides a link and I was able to download it to my Mac and run the movie with no problem (the gold standard). The movie is $4.99 - a dollar more than Comcast's pay-per-view. You have to go through an e-commerce checkout, which seems a little odd. After all, you don't have to provide your name, address and phone number when you buy a movie ticket. Now hand me the popcorn, I'm going to go watch Carma again.
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