Eye Candy #45 - "Ink"

Ink: Sci-fi independent films are the hardest to pull off, lacking the budget and special effects wherewithal in most cases to truly make it work. This is very much in the “Alice in Wonderland” and “Labyrinth” vein. In the world of “Ink”, there are two kinds of beings who exist in a dimension that runs closely parallel to our own: Storytellers, who are benevolent beings responsible for good dreams; and Incubi, who wear screens over their faces projecting an eternal false positive image, who make nightmares. Into this world, come Emma, a young girl, and Ink, a deformed drifter who kidnaps Emma’s dreaming consciousness to give to the Incubi, so that he can become one of them. And the Storytellers responsible for her and Emma’s alcoholic failure of a father, John, must save the catatonic Emma. For a $250,000 film, it looks great and much better than most of the $1 million budget films I see (like the various craptacular in-house SyFy films). The plot is interesting and the film well put together. It was shot on a digital, so it looks more like a TV production than a film. The acting can be, at times, amateurish, with quality all over the place as one would expect from an indie film. It’s also overlong by a bit. Directed by Jamin Winans, the film is ambitious as all get out. I don’t know why one of the established houses didn’t pick this up for distribution. Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”