Retro Review: “How To Get Ahead In Advertising”

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Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

By Michael Knox, mknox@modernfilmzine.com

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This brutally sardonic film is a dark gem I ran across thanks to Mountain Xpress film critic and mentor, Ken Hanke.

I’d never heard about the movie until he mentioned it and when I went to read the back of the DVD cover and discovered it was about a man in advertising who grows a boil that quickly turns into another head filled with evil thoughts… well I just HAD to give it a try.

And I am glad I did. Hanke had already seen the movie recently so we screened it without him, but DAMN if I wished he hadn’t been sitting in the theater so I could ask production questions, because of just how weird this movie is.

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