The movie focuses on Jordan, a hotshot Hollywood agent who drives a Tesla, has beautifully tailored suits, and an adoring fiance who puts up with his 24/7 work schedule. Under the mindful eye of Cummings and McCabe who wrote the script, then recorded the dialogue as a podcast to fine tune the monologues and jokes, the descent into madness feels organically orchestrated and you will find yourself melting into your seat as the lead character Jordan (Cummings) keeps sinking into an endless inferno that he created. Now, not content with only combining a few elements, he brings the world a tale about a Hollywood agent who has a sexual encounter with a stranger, and slowly begins to meltdown into a paranoid maniac who lies, cheats, drinks, and raises his voice many times. Cummings’ 2020 movie The Wolf of Snow Hollow successfully combined alcoholism and anger, with lycanthropy. After Thunder Road, The Wolf of Snow Hollow and now The Beta Test, Cummings has perfected the art of the cinematic anxiety attack.įilmed on a $250,000 budget, the independent feature by co-directors Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe finds humor and horror in the internet, Hollywood, relationships, masculinity, and paranoia. Quick Thoughts – Grade – A – The Beta Test is another nerve-racking film from director/writer/editor/star Jim Cummings.
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