#SWORD AND SANDALS 10000 MOVIE#
Seeing this creatures bought to life in such a unique way will certainly bring a smile to the face of any monster movie aficionado, and it was hilarious to see them interacting with regular people. Some of the fellow struggling actors Phil encounters throughout his journey include an animatronic dinosaur, a CGI liquid metal creation, and a black and white hand-drawn dragon which makes cute squealing noises. After all, the poor guy can’t even drown his sorrows, as the alcohol he drinks in a bar spills from his ribcage into a bucket he conveniently placed between his legs. Heck, the performance of the stop-motion skeleton was more convincing than a great deal of performances we’ve seen from real actors in various films over the years, and his struggles really make you feel for him. His diverse expressions also gave us a clue to his motivations, which was useful in a story with almost no dialogue. Not only does Phil believably interact with the live-action world and with his human co-stars, but he was given a variety of versatile facial expressions which allow him to feel more like a fully fleshed out character, despite his lack of actual flesh. Needless to say, the stop-motion effects in Rebooted are phenomenal, with the filmmakers perfectly invoking the work of Ray Harryhausen in a modern setting. We never thought that a film about a walking skeleton would tug on our heartstrings as much as Rebooted did, so you should probably watch it with a pair of tissues handy. Despite the somewhat comedic premise, this is still a story which is likely to make you cry, as Phil and the other old school movie monsters he encounters come to accept how they have been rejected by society. Which is not good news, because since he can’t find work, he won’t be getting any pay checks, and actors do need to eat (or at least we assume that skeleton actors also need food).
Featuring almost no dialogue, the twelve minute short shows Phil struggling to find work and botching multiple auditions, as he grudgingly comes to learn that there just isn’t any demand for a stop motion skeleton actor anymore.
The new short film Rebooted, which can be viewed on YouTube, focuses on a skeleton actor named Phil, who made a name for himself after starring in the fantasy epic 10,000 Sandals, but now struggles to find work as the industry moves away from stop motion and embraces computer effects.
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