HEARD SHE GOT MURDERED
Dir. Charles Roxburgh, 2023.
United States. 78 min.
In English.

After surprising fans with the thoughtful, melancholy HEARD SHE GOT MARRIED, what did Farley & Roxburgh do for a sequel? The opposite, of course. Picking up shortly after the events of the previous film, struggling singer/songwriter Mitch Owens (Farley) now finds his already stagnant career tarnished by association with tragedy. Venues don’t want to book him, DJs don’t want to play him, audiences don’t want to hear him, and even the local public access channel has moved on to spotlighting other talent. After a while, he faces a choice: give up, or enact every frustrated artist’s darkest fantasies. Cross-pollinating comedy and drama with a slasher pastiche, Farley & Roxburgh build to a climax that reaches unprecedented heights of silliness for the filmmakers.

A fearlessly unhinged genre-bender, and an act of gleeful creative self-immolation by two artists who answer to no one, HEARD SHE GOT MURDERED further develops the key themes of the filmmakers’ recent work: the push-pull relationship between art and commerce; the challenges of remaining creative in middle age; and the frustrations and possibilities of creating art in a world that isn’t asking for it.

Note: HEARD SHE GOT MURDERED exists in several versions. Spectacle is pleased to present a rare screening of the theatrical cut, which is unavailable on digital or Blu-Ray.

Introduced by Matt Farley & Charlie Roxburgh.