Director Joe (Almost Human) Begos returns with an independent horror opus and love letter to all things David Cronenberg. The film is called The Mind’s Eye and the influence of Scanners, Firestarter and their ilk is readily apparent. The Grue-crew dive into their thoughts about the film and their appreciation for the practical special effects. […]
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Writer/Director Joe Begos began gathering notice with his first film, a short called Bad Moon Rising (2011). After that he began work on his first full length feature, 2013’s Almost Human, which was a hit on the festival circuit, and very popular on home video. He’s now promoting his latest film, The Mind’s Eye, which […]
It’s readily evident that writer/director Joe Begos has a sizable jones for David Cronenberg’s Scanners (1981) as his latest film, The Mind’s Eye can be construed as something close to a remake of it. But Begos does something really smart here, and he jettisons a lot of what slowed Cronenberg’s opus down to a crawl […]