SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from SXSW Midnighter selection Monitor.
For Matt Black and Ryan Polly, the Texas-based filmmakers behind the horror film Monitor, the project emerged, unusually, from a case of intellectual property theft.
Eight years ago, the duo came together on a lark to make a short film, posting it online and forgetting about it almost immediately. Four years later, they got a call from a screenwriter who was pitching on a feature version, which had been set up at a major studio with a major producer attached. The only problem was they knew nothing about it.
They won’t name the filmmaker who pulled their short off the web and put it forward as his own original work. But when Black and Polly found out about the situation, they became determined to get the feature made themselves, in their first outing following
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