I caught Afflicted at the Toronto Film Festival last year (read my review here), that has a decent enough premise, but it would have fit much better as a 30-minute feature inside one of the recent horror anthology films such as V/H/S as even the 85-minute running time ends up about an horror too long.
Here’s the opening paragraph from my review:
Afflicted establishes itself as an MTV-esque travelogue as directors and stars Derek Lee and Clif Prowse (playing themselves) prepare to travel the world for a year and do whatever their audience suggests. Part of the reasoning behind the trip is because Derek is suffering from an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in his brain and instead of sitting around feeling sorry for himself he wants to make sure to live each and every day to its fullest. Clif is a wannabe filmmaker and documentarian so he packs up the gear and it’s off to Barcelona, where trouble soon befalls our two adventurers.
CBS will bring the film to theaters and On Demand on April 4. Give the trailer a watch below and let me know what you think. Clearly horror fans are loving it, so you may too.
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