To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

I enjoyed the humor and the realism towards the human minds while around different types of people and their curiosity towards others who they've had yet to get to know much about, in regards to fear, attraction, suspicion and confusion. I like the fact that it actually shows the realistic qualities of the human brain, but visually. As for the portions towards the girls and their flirtatious behavior in general (via walking around attracting attention, flipping, dancing, hugging up on each other, in my opinion a bit sensually at times.) made me a bit uncomfortable. As well as the father being attracted to any woman or girl besides his wife and daughter (his daughter, preferably he not be attracted to, of course.), that showed (off) a larger portion of their skin. I am aware that many people of closer relation to one another, often hug up to each other and get close, as it's a natural reflex and level of comfort for many, but the fact that it was sensual, it made me uncomfortable. A few parts made me cringe. Both in good ways and bad. But all in all, the movie wasn't awful in my opinion and I though the acting to be well done. So, good on the actors as well as the director. :)

Uncertain of why he was fired from work, a father-of-two does not heed the advice of his former boss and lets his imagination run wild while on vacation at Disneyland in this one-of-a-kind guerrilla movie. Shot on location at Disneyland and Disney World, apparently without permission, the movie is worth checking out simply for the unique spin that the filmmakers place on the popular amusement parks. Lusciously shot in black and white, the filmmakers emphasise every single shadow and manage to bring out something ominous in all of the buildings and rides. Clocking in at nearly 90 minutes though, the film feels incredibly long given the slimness of the premise. The story basically consists of the father slowly losing his mind, and while there is initially some doubt as to whether or not it is all in his head, this quickly disappears and things soon become fairly repetitive, some mood-destroying scatological humour near the end aside. Even if not entirely engaging the whole way through, 'Escape from Tomorrow' is an easy film to appreciate. The "bad things happen everywhere" agenda works well as the film focuses on the daughter tripping and falling and the son experiencing motion sickness, quite aside from the father losing his marbles. Roy Abramsohn also does well making his lecherous character come off as sympathetic. His job anxiety truly resonates and it is easy to feel for his desire to feel youthful again by following the two French teenagers around. What exactly his final appearance at the end is meant to signify though is anybody's guess.

You've heard the stories about this movie: rogue filmmaker stealthily shoots his feature film in Disney World without being caught or somehow sued to death. The movie screens at Sundance as a buzzworthy curiosity for fans of bizarre midnight movies. The predicted legal backlash from Disney never happens and the movie is allowed to exist and sit in Netflix's Watch Instant library for anyone to see without fear of legal action. So, how does it hold up a few years later, after all the hubbub has died down? Not well is the answer! I was inspired to go back and screen this after I read about another dark Disney-inspired art piece: Banksy's "Dismaland." I don't live in the UK, so I figured the next best thing would be to experience "Escape from Tomorrow" -- a David Lynchian treatment of "The Happiest Place on Earth" that's sadly more fun to talk about than it is to actually watch.During a family vacation to Disney World, family man Jim is informed that he's being laid off from his job. And, as you can imagine, it's all downhill from there. Soon, the only thing he's riding in the Magic Kingdom is a downward spiral filled with demonic visions, psycho-sexual temptations, and sci-fi dread.For the next 90 or so minutes, we watch as Jim pervs out on two French tourist girls in the park, has a weird sexual encounter with a woman who may or may not be a witch, and tries to evade an outbreak of a mythical "Cat Flu" that is basically a death sentence of diarrhea. All sounds cool, right? Then why is it such a chore to sit through? The actors.The actors playing the family --a cast of unknowns-- just scream at each other the entire time, which made me just as uncomfortable as watching real families scream at each other in the real Disney World.I'll give the movie this: though its writing is borderline cringeworthy, the visuals on display are haunting and well-realized. The "It's a Small World" sequence --filled with a menagerie of cutesy puppet faces turning devilish-- is worth finding on youtube or at least fast-forwarding to, if you're in the mood for something that's simultaneously macabre and funny. Also noteworthy is the climactic sequence in Spaceship Earth where the movie goes into full-blown science fiction and we watch a mad scientist give Jim a brain scan with a Spaceship Earth-themed helmet.There are a lot of interesting ideas here but the execution to make any of it meaningful never comes close. Due to its production limitations, I was constantly reminded that I was watching a troupe of guerilla filmmakers putting all their effort into secretly filming a movie at a famous landmark instead of just, you know, MAKING A GOOD MOVIE.I didn't care if Jim made things right with his family, or survived the not-so-hidden horrors that were plaguing him. I just wanted to see what weird Disney-inspired twists the director was going to throw at me next. Sadly, beyond those two striking sequences I mentioned, director Randy Moore's bag of tricks is limited.The film ends with a doozy of the "WTF did I just watch?" variety, and all I'm left with is a fun movie to recount to friends and a bad taste in my mouth.

The opening credits are spliced with a roller-coaster ride, whipping and turning, intercutting with fair like shots, balloons and candy - fun… and ends with a decapitation. Is this setting up the tone for "Escape from Tomorrow" where we may just loose our heads, because it is existential story telling and more about interpretation rather than vapidly force-feeding the story? However, trying to figure it out when there is nothing there is infuriating. Immediately after the decapitation we are introduced to one of the elements that makes 'Escape from Tomorrow' work really well, the overtly disgusting Jim whom attracts more problems than just naturally befall the man. Beginning his day with bad news each step forward gets worse as he comes closer towards a complete mental breakdown. His repugnant persona is what makes this sad midlife crisis trip so fun to watch because the novelty of guerrilla (student film) making in Disney Land begins to wear thin after twenty minutes, although impeccably captured. The story of gross Jim gets boring. The paedophile aspect becomes a little relentless. The cat flu seemed brilliant then became too ambiguous and finally felt like the easy way out. Even the hilarious magic hanging from the witches' neck looses its sparkle. 'Escape from Tomorrow' manages to follow every foul and disgusting set of shots up with impeccable humour where a tongue is planted firmly in a cheek. It manages to let you live in Jim's nightmarish hell of Disney Land with the family and never actually empathise with his apparent conundrums. It evens answers Jim's terrible parenting skills with his brazen paedophilic quandaries. Not forgetting all the boring shots that ties this brilliance together.The last stretch of the film starts to veer towards too much absurdity where someone might have slipped some LSD into David Lynch's mouth and told him to make a dark love story in Disney Land. The problem is that love is not an element that features in this film, strange considering there is a family involved but there isn't even a 'lack of love' theme. So the boring and the weird mix together to form a new kind of waste of time where apparently cleavage lives. Cleavages being the gratuitous aspect that'll help pass the time perhaps but not mind fodder in the slightest. The film does save itself by the bitter end. The witch is something else, the palm shirt is ridiculous, the punishment is apt, he covers semen vigorously and bountifully but the cross bridge to get there proved tedious at points. All in all I have to give it top notches in the category of experimental horror filmmaking regardless of the empty shots. Loving something and hating it can define avant-garde at times and Escape from Tomorrow's unfamiliar territory is eccentric to say the least.