Hacked: A Double Entendre of Rage Fueled Karma<\/a>,\u201d which recently wrapped a festival run that included screenings at FilmQuest, Celluloid Screams and Soho Horror Fest. The film, which follows the plight of the fictional Rumble family in a based-on-reality setup, is kinetic, cathartic and filled with snappy in-jokes and an infectious \u201clet\u2019s put on a show\u201d energy that sprung from the project\u2019s development.<\/p>\n\n\t\u201cWe found out how many other people had been victims where their money had been stolen,\u201d Brady says. \u201cI\u2019m sure you get those texts daily that say, \u2018If you don\u2019t pay this toll right now, we got you.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe also learned that when people hack into other people\u2019s stuff, they will never be prosecuted for it because it\u2019s a fingerprintless crime,\u201d Zercher adds. \u201cSo not only does it happen all the time and everyone is upset about it, everybody\u2019s hands truly are tied.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn addition to a script filled with flights of fancy and dreams of delivering ultraviolet justice, the filmmaking evokes the loss of control the couple faced after the incident. Brady, who edited the film, says he carefully considered the feature\u2019s flow.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe rough cut that I showed a lot of my friends was an hour and 55 minutes,\u201d he says. \u201cAcross the board, they all had a version of the note: \u2018This feels like a 90-minute movie.\u2019 So I literally set a timeline marker to 90 and started hacking away. I felt like the movie started getting richer and becoming more \u2026 I don\u2019t take offense when there\u2019s a Letterboxd review calling it \u2018The TikTok movie.\u2019 It\u2019s fast-paced, it\u2019s insane, but I take it as a compliment for two reasons. Number one is that the goal audience is the younger generation and those dealing with technology. Furthermore, by leaning into this frenetic-paced world, that\u2019s what Emily and I were dealing with. We felt crazy. We felt insane. And everywhere we looked for help or closure, it was a joke. Then you make a movie that\u2019s a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHacked\u201d has recently been acquired for distribution by S&R Films, and the pair is excited for larger audiences to get the same jolt as at festival screenings. Ultimately, Brady says that the film has helped him to process and move past the robbery.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been working diligently in my life to embrace suffering as a gift,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2018Right now, this is very bad, and what is happening is very bad, but maybe there\u2019s a reason for it.\u2019 Not to say that our future is preordained or our destiny is written in the stars, but perhaps the suffering that we went through is meant to allow us to bond with other people who have gone through similar things. Perhaps by us killing ourselves with work to make this movie a reality, it will help somebody else who got their money stolen, and they\u2019re never going to get it back. It\u2019ll help somebody through a really crappy day, and they want to put on a movie where they get to have that release and have fun and not take themselves so seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWatch the trailer for \u201cHacked\u201d below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places. For husband and wife filmmakers Shane Brady and Emily…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":500196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,224495,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-500195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hacked-a-double-entendre-of-rage-fueled-karma","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115856828334882510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}