Neil Breen, filmmaker

He did this:

http://www.worstmoviesevermade.com/double-down-neil-breen/

http://insidepulse.com/2011/09/29/from-the-inside-outsider-filmmaker-neil-breen/

Then he did this:

http://vimeo.com/19918051

http://conjugalfelicity.com/i-am-here-now/one/

He now presents to the world, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRI2Izu8Od0

http://io9.com/fateful-findings-is-the-new-best-worst-movie-youve-eve-1510958649

Let us honor this man...accordingly.

I've been trying to acquire his movies forever but can't seem to find copies anywhere, just trailers and clips. Anyway, he seems like a very strange dude. Have you watched these?

Not in full yet, no.

What do you think Neil Breen's philosophy is as a filmmaker?

well i watched myself some double down tonight

Was your mind expanded.

in that it felt at least twice as long as it actually was, sure

Got plans to watch Double Down next week with a pal. Will report back.

good luck man

What do you think Neil Breen's philosophy is as a filmmaker?

Avant-garde Mary Sue?

Flophouse podcast did a great episode on Fateful findings

All three of his movies feature the magic space rock. They're all on youtube.

Redlettermedia liked Double Down a lot. Main part starts at 45:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-3wkbqmgxs

I saw Fateful Findings at a screening in 2013 with Breen sitting across the aisle from me. It was charming to see the looks of delight that flickered across his face when people laughed at weird bits of incompetence, distracting from the gaze of rapturous involvement that otherwise occupied his fizzog as he viewed his own creation.

There was an audience Q&A afterwards, in which every ironic twentysomething who put their hand up tried really hard to phrase questions in a way that wouldn't seem like mockery, to engage him on the level of an auteur who happened to have made this particular film on purpose, as opposed to the gawping amazement in which we had all viewed it. Only one guy fell foul of riding this knife-edge, when he was earnestly and carefully trying to ask about whether the utterly bemusing use of long takes of inanimate objects was intended to imbue these with any significance. I can only assume that this was one element of Breen's work that he actually perceives as a result of his budgetary or conceptual limitations, as he responded - sharply, dropping the beatific geniality that had suffused the rest of his appearance - that he is doing the best that he can, and learning with every film, and will continue to develop his skills.

Great experience. I can't imagine watching one of his films alone, without an audience.

Watched Double Down recently. Surprisingly um, "artsy"

that's the best flophouse. they're all so delighted to have finally watched a really enjoyably bad and crazy movie .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPeWUdO_SIU

NEW BREEN IS COMING!

Looks like a remake of I Am Here....Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwKPErsSt8

http://worstmoviesevermade.com/wp-content/media/2013/01/neil-breen-vegas-realtor.jpg

Watched I Am Here...Now with friends and girlfriend.

Wow.

Holy shit, this is his version of John Carpenter's Starman, isn't it?

http://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/why-fateful-findings-deserves-cult-status/

Nathan Rabin weighs in on why Fateful Findings should be added to the pantheon.

Nothing destroys a great bad movie like an excess of winking self-consciousness, by a need to let the audience know you’re in on the joke. Not only is Fateful Findings not in on the joke, it inhabits a world where jokes do not exist, only trembling sincerity and tone-deaf earnestness. It is this earnestness that makes Fateful Findings something special. A movie that does everything right is an absolute miracle, but so is a movie that gets everything wrong, and now that I have been introduced to Breen’s surreal world, I can’t wait to delve back into it again and again.

JD found this, and this is what happens when Breen characters bleed over into our universe:

I'm a Former Green Beret and Here’s How I Would Bring Down Bitcoin

http://media.insidepulse.com/zones/insidepulse/uploads/2011/09/double-down-2-300x164.png

He's been screening his new film here and there, and did so in North Hollywood tonight.

https://www.facebook.com/neil.breen.12/posts/1313634581997084

Holy SHIT, you guys! His latest is some next-level shit, apparently going for genocide at one point!

And the tiger gets 2nd billing on IMDB!

Neil bought a 2nd lens for his camera! And a 4K quadracopter, which is a helluva lot cheaper than a crane shot.

No tasteful side-boob, tho, only q shot of a woman revealing her plot-relevany(sorta) tramp stamp.

Only a shot, rather

Good news, everyone!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1768883703390895&id=1557797961166138

Pass-Thru and Fateful Findings on DVD "in about a month."

I recently lost my fateful findings virginity and I can tell you - watch this movie as soon as possible.

I was stunned and amazed.

Of course I like this sort of thing but either way its gold

wait till you see "You Know? ABOUT it?" what a great line delivery

Doubel Down seems to be even better than Fateful findings!

Best part of Fateful Findings is Breen's rage towards his laptops, books, and desks

Also this is almost Lynchian

https://youtu.be/Gz1xPx_K6Do

hahaha stealing that joke

IT IS Lynchian! The only sdifference is I think LYnch is wawre of the strangeness when he does it

breen calls his films surreal in interviews, but it's hard to find the line between what's intentionally surreal and what's not.

I wonder how (un)successful his latest crowdfunding attempt is

https://media.tenor.com/images/7d729190069af8ea5e8049dfcd75434a/tenor.gif

let's all fund it!

https://www.gofundme.com/Twisted-Neil-Breen-Film

Something tells me it woul d be better if less funded tho

there is a subtle difference between surrealism and failure

"no deserts, hackers or laptops"... no way i'm funding that garbage

Attack of the Laptops

some crazy joker made this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMpIM7BEJUw&feature=youtu.be

Aw yeah

Post production on my 5th theatrical feature film TWISTED looks Amazing !!!! Very excited . It's soooo much bigger and better than my previous 4 features , that I Prod, Wrote and Directed . You all will love it !!!! Can't wait to show it to you .

— Neil Breen (@NeilBreen) March 29, 2018

i have no idea what is going on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BfsbZOuTI&feature=youtu.be

wait, try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2BfsbZOuTI

The mullet years.

thank you for bringing this to my attnetion

aw hell yeah

Oh jesus Twisted Pair is just.... i don't know... it makes The Room seem fairly normal. It was a totally packed screening and people were really into it - there's no stopping him becoming a weird cult sensation.

Maybe its already been mentioned but did anyone feel certain parts of Twin Peaks The Return were Breenesque such as the clunky jarring CGI and the stilted dialogue

i was wondering if y'all have seen after last season. there is a thread about it but it's barely posted in. movie's on the internet archive and is for me the peak of this surreality-through-likely-ineptitude-but-who-can-tell-how-intentional-any-of-it-is kind of filmmaking

I have not but I've now watched the trailer and yeah it definitely fits the vibe. though it looks more like a student film, what with all the cardboard boxes and paper signs everywhere. amusingly IMDB lists the budget as $5,000,000, either they're committing tax fraud or someone on IMDB is trolling

after last season is great as far as this sort of thing goes yeah. the whole thing feels like an inscrutable dream.

the director has repeatedly claimed that the budget was 5 million yeah, but has clarified that the budget for the main shoot was only 30-40k, after which he was able to secure money from investors which was then used for the extremely primitive 3d animation which made up the vast majority of the supposed budget. none of that really makes any sense except that they didn't have any money for the main shoot. surely some sort of tax fraud was involved?

people thought that about The Room too, until the Disaster Artist book came out and detailed exactly how Tommy Wiseau blew $6m filming it. this movie does not appear to have the production qualities of The Room however.

the claim is $5 million was pretty much all spent on the extremely primitive 3d animation which is an order of magnitude weirder than the room's budget

oh no!!

https://people.com/tv/storage-wars-gunter-nezhoda-dead-67/

I had no idea that this guy became vaguely famous! of all the people in his movies, this was the one I assumed had to be a friend of his somehow...even by Breen's standards this was a strange, out of place, and pointless character, who nevertheless delivered one of the funniest lines in cinematic history

https://imgur.com/L4qBU8y

I am still baffled by the last 40 minutes of this movie. what does it mean when he finds Emily overdosed in her bed (whose last words before passing out were..."I'm sorry Dylan"?) and keeps saying "Emily...I knew it was you" ??? as usual he barely reacts to what should be a tragic moment, only to finally let out his emotions at the end of the scene, but he cranks up the music so you can't hear him yell what is clearly "OHHHH NOOOOO!"

― frogbs, Monday, May 1, 2023 6:29 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the best scene in fateful findings that doesn’t occur in the shiny black garbage bag interzone

liminality made of loose black plastic…. neil breen’s fortress of solinude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-dqkGB5GUg

isn't that corrupt?

Cade screening at 60 theaters. in typical Breen fashion he doesn't post a list, rather this 7 minute YouTube video in which he reads them off in random order. he gives no link to buy tickets just "keep checking the website and eventually they will come up".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWXFm10624

one of them is in Milwaukee...you bet your ass I will be there

alright I think it's finally time to watch Pass Thru. I see someone just uploaded it to YouTube. just gotta wait for this edible to kick in.

Ok I was not ready for this

hell yeah

I kinda knew what was coming thanks to this thread but wow not really prepared for how fast things ramp up. every movie he does brings to mind the Garth Marenghi "I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards" clip but wow, this is next level

I thought the blonde lady from Fateful Findings was the worst actor to ever appear in a Breen film (Jim's wife/murderer, not Breen's long lost love), but the lady who takes refuge in Breen's bean van is somehow even worse. honorable mention to the cartel thugs whose only direction must've been "BE AS LOUD AND MEAN AS POSSIBLE!!!!"

follow up - I was not at the screening because I had somewhere I had to be that day, unfortunately. but I did get the DVD - perhaps the last DVD I will ever buy - and I will be watching it tonight

I am so fucking confused right now

Sounds like he delivered once more!

Like Lynch or Tarkovsky, Breen's films are quite subtle and complex so you need to rewatch them again and again.

I guess we'll never know what goes on in the mind of Breen but this really did feel like he filmed two different versions of the same movie and just put all the footage together - it's not really clear if these actors are supposed to be playing the same character throughout the movie. like one of them appears to die three times and other times is in a wheelchair, but then is doing karate moves five minutes later?? even for Neil Breen it's incomprehensible. still very entertaining, though I hope his future movies aren't all green screened like this

what in god’s name

all the green screen gave me something like zoom fatigue

as usual, really can’t tell how in on it breen is

“holy shit… it’s a castle!”

can only describe this music video as having extreme Neil Breen energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPrek1oAjG0

This truth.

loll as you can see by my FB post when I saw this my immediate thought was "Ned has to see this"

Among other things it has helped me to realize 'oh wait so THAT'S who you are'

https://i.imgur.com/kvWSEx1.png

The duality of man

this is an all-time imdb cast credit though

https://i.imgur.com/00c03CU.png

i will be passing this on to my local breen-heads, thank u frogbs. would be excellent material at a breen-a-thon, as an intermission

even the rhythm is very Breen-like, I didn't know it was possible to mess it up that bad

Yeah the rhythm is making me feel insane.

But not in the 90s club banger meaning of that sentence.

wow just wow

amazing

oh my god check out his website

https://www.astariamusic.com/joshuamichael-realm111.html

Guardian 2: Eyes of Fire is everything I wanted it to be - and then a whole lot more. I fell in love with Josh's previous album, Guardian of Secret Dreams, upon its release in 2007. I have spent countless hours listening to it, singing it in the shower or the car, obsessing over it. Guardian 2 is the rare album that exceeds the promise of its predecessor. I don't hesitate to make the comparison to The Godfather/The Godfather Part II, or Toy Story/Toy Story 2. This is a sequel that is every bit as good as the first...
- David Ham

"I was talking with Bram Stoker
Only known as a crazy coker..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jx3dFRCf8

lmao I lost it when the beat dropped

well, i just watched my new favorite music video!

kind of sounds like the magnetic fields

so I took Neil Breen's speech from Pass Thru (the "I have killed them all" one), added a bunch of reverb and pitched it down like 5%, then dropped it into a DJ set, holy fuck it sounds sick

lmao, put that on bandcamp and i'll give you $1 for it

I'll second that!

hah alright, I mocked it up in Audacity and it came out pretty good

https://soundcloud.com/billjartz/dds-breen

haunting

He's back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DGnxayGFM

'For your Oscar consideration...'

at 1:05 in, after he says "stay the f*** away from me!" and before "i'm not the one you should be followin", does he...kiss the wall?

sure he's unhinged, but also the best agent we have

was expecting this to be 90% genAI as the inevitable next step after the excessive breenscreen in his last two or so, but at a glance, this trailer does seem to mostly be using the more conventional independent filmmaking techniques that neil taught us all about in his 5 feature retrospective dvd?