Movie Recommendation - It Could Happen Near You

I finally got around to seeing this film that was released in 1992, and highly recommend it. It's one of those films that stay with you for days afterwards, and make you want to check out the director's and writer's other work.

(The story -- It's a mockumentary - the story is a film crew on a shoestring budget following a mass murderer around as he does his daily business. They become entangled with his crimes and murders as they encourage him to commit murders outside his patterm after as they take money from him to finance the film. As all of the ads promise, it's funny at first, but loses the humor when crew starts to become part of the crimes, but it's like watching a train wreck in slow motion - you're still fascinated and want to find out what happens next.)

In the film, the lines between the film crew and their subject are blurrred. In reality, the film was made by three film school students in Begium as part of a school project. They used their family and friends in the cast and halted temporarily while they collected funds, etc.

The main member of the film crew (Remy) was played by Remy Belvaux (also the director and writer) . If you see it on DVD, be sure to watch the "conversations" with the director "extra". Remy was the most interesting of the three writers/ directors, but unfortunately he never made another film. He went into advertizing in France, and his work won several awards, but he committed suicide in September 2006.