Tim Sullivan’s latest film, I Was A Teenage Werebear, will make its New Jersey premier in Metuchen on July 9, 2011 at 8:00PM at the Forum Theater. Mr. Sullivan was born in raised in Metuchen, so this is being seen as a big homecoming for him. Also screening that night will be Detroit Rock City, a comedy that Tim co-produced in 1999. I Was A Teenage Werebear is a segment in the Chillerama film coming out in 2011. Tim is joined by other directors such as Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2) and Adam Green (Hatchet) to combile four short films that make up Chillerama.
I Was A Teenage Werebear will star Brent Corrigan, Anton Troy, Gabby West (VH1’s Scream Queens winner), Lin Shaye (Insidious), Adam Robitel (2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams), and many others. The plot, taken from the event summary, reads: “A funny, subversive spoof of the Eisenhower/Kennedy-era beach movies, I Was A Teenage Werebear follows a day in the life of closeted new kid Ricky O’Reilly who falls for Malibu High’s mysterious bad boy Talon. The 30 minute film features five rock n roll musical numbers in a stylistic mash-up of genre icons Roger Corman and John Waters that spins the frothy boy/girl/beach format into a humorously bloody, albeit well-intentioned, call for acceptance and tolerance.”
Looks like it will be a horror-comedy short, with gay elements and themes aimed at equality. I can dig it!
For more information on the screening of I Was A Teenage Werebear, and Detroit Rock City, in Metuchen, New Jersey on July 9th, check out the facebook invitation[here].
Don't waste your time. This film is way over hyped. Without Sean Lockhart (Brent Corrigan), this film wouldn't have received any attention – and in reality, Sean is the only reason worth watching. Watching this short alone, without the rest of Chillerama, doesn't make sense either – how it's making its rounds so successfully in the LGBT circuit is baffling. It's poorly shot, poorly lit, and the songwriting is nothing more than okay. There are so many other amazing LGBT films out there, and the fact this is receiving attention is quite embarrassing, to say the least. There are campy films, and then there is bad, and this is just bad.
This is nothing more than amateur with no artistic value. I wish festivals would take films with merit, rather than films that have an actor's name attached.