Chris Gore's Footage Fetishes: Quentin Tarantino's Secret Movie?

There’s a film currently playing on the festival circuit that has audiences and critics talking. It’s a crime drama with the kind of disjointed narrative that is exactly like something Quentin Tarantino would have made, say in 1994. It has so impressed audiences, that it’s been rumored that Quentin himself was involved somehow. Speculation has it that QT either wrote, directed or was somehow involved in making the low budget indie Ten ‘Til Noon.

I procured a copy of the film on DVD because I had to see it for myself. Damn! This is inspired filmmaking that must be seen. Ten ‘Til Noon is Tarantino-esque in all the right ways, from the dialog, to the characters, to the intensity of the situations and especially when it comes to the story.

We meet Larry as he is rudely awakened from his slumber at, you guessed it, 11:50 AM or ten ‘til noon. A badass ebony assassin and his statuesque hottie sidekick mastermind a home invasion. The killers sit comfortably in Larry’s bedroom, as calm as can be. At gunpoint, Larry is told he’s about to die, but before that happens, he is belittled by stories of his cheating wife, who is, at this very moment, being plowed by her stud at a cheap motel. He can’t believe his world has been turned completely upside down in just an instant. Then, the gun goes off, blood mixed with chunks of human splatter the expensive painting on the wall and, well, no more Larry. That kind of brutal violence happens in these kinds of crime dramas.


Is Quentin Tarantino in bed with some low budget filmmakers?

We then meet Larry’s wife Becky as she is getting the plowing of her life by a young stud on the verge of letting… loose… any… second! She keeps him from blowing his load by screaming aloud images such as, oh, disgusting maggots and mom jeans. But he releases anyway. After their story plays out, we meet the guys on the surveillance team watching the two lovers on hidden video as they, uh, complete. I don’t want to give any more away, but what follows is the same ten minute period of time, from 11:50 AM to noon, played out as we discover how all the characters' lives intersect… and the way it ends, no one could have ever guessed.


Becky wants it bad.

Every once in a while a movie like this comes along that needs a champion, and I intend to tell everyone I know about this film, starting with the audience here on Suicide Girls. Ten ‘Til Noon is currently playing to amazed audiences on the festival circuit and garnering a ton of accolades. If you can catch it at a fest, I recommend you run to get tickets.


Is Quentin behind this indie?

As for the Tarantino rumor, one critic seriously wrote in his review that the film must have been made by QT himself under a pseudonym. Sorry folks, it’s not true. The film comes from the mind of one Scott Storm, which, up until now, almost no one but myself had ever heard of. Storm made a brilliant film called Burn that played the Slamdance Film Festival years ago and I was one of the lucky few who was able to see it. Due to some BS legal red tape, Burn never saw the light of day. Refusing to give up the dream, Storm went right back to it and has delivered a film worthy of your attention.


These guys spend the entire movie jerkin' around... if you know what I mean.

So, as you are being bombarded with the latest multiplex crap, or season seven of that show you used to like on DVD, or snakes in your pants, remember that many of the filmmakers you admire today came from low budget indies that played on the festival circuit. Bryan (Superman Returns) Singer and Kevin (Clerks saga) Smith and Christopher (Batman Begins) Nolan and Darren (The Fountain) Aronofsky and plenty more all have their roots in films made for less than $50,000 grand that toured festivals. They all broke big and you know their movies today because movie geeks like me went to see their films at festivals when, you know, they would return my phone calls. Now you can get into the cinema of Scott Storm early by seeing TTN, so check out the trailer, visit the web site, or make some friends with these guys on their MySpace page. Right now, they might have some time to write to you. But in the future, don't count on it.

So, don’t just mindlessly go to the movies, make a choice to see something that isn’t pre-sold, pre-packaged and over-marketed.

Gore gone!

Chris_Gore is an author, a filmmaker, the creator of Film Threat, and enjoys using baby wipes on things other than babies.