"Macat was hoping to make a movie that was frightening and strange. The goal, he says, was to scare a kid. And so, even though it was 1990, he chose to shoot the noir like it was the 40s, with black and white film, fog filters on the camera lenses, and an intense, old-fashioned lighting setup to cast deep shadows on the set. Macat needed to do all of this to make the perfect family Christmas film."
"How do you make a film-inside-a-film? They are a fairly frequent but tragically understudied phenomenon the Wikipedia entry, List of films featuring fictional films collates about 120 of them, but there are actually hundreds more. They're all great in their own way, says Lynn Fisher, the 40-year-old creator of the speciality website Nestflix, which catalogues more than 1,000 stories nested in other stories. I especially appreciate ones that obviously took a lot of effort to create."
Julio Macat recreated 1940s noir aesthetics in 1990 to craft the convincingly real short gangster film Angels with Filthy Souls for the movie Home Alone. He used black-and-white film, fog filters, and intense, old-fashioned lighting to produce deep shadows and an authentic look. The staged film looked so genuine that many viewers believed it was a real vintage movie. Films nested within films occur frequently across cinema and attract dedicated interest, leading creators like Lynn Fisher to catalog over a thousand fictional films on a site called Nestflix.
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