A curio is a curio until it ceases being a curio and becomes a something of a rarefied piece of junk. Such is the case with "Film House Fever" which is nothing short of an empty void filled with some sort of stench.
Steve Buscemi and Mark Boone Junior (both friends in real life) play B-movie junk food aficionados who watch movies on three TV's! This is all they apparently do and Mark Boone seems to be the one that becomes a zombie for watching too many movies. They hear of a "from Dusk till Dawn" film festival which only seems to show trailers and short segments of B-movies and grade Z zilch (this is an all-night film festival?) Then it turns out the theater is inhabited by actual zombies who attack our two so-called movie snobs. That's all folks.
Amateurish to a fault and unwatchable from beginning to end, it resembles something cobbled together if you spent time with friends on a weekend shooting a movie on 16mm and editing it the same weekend at a non-profit TV station (nothing wrong with that because I've done it myself). At 58 minutes though, it feels 5 hours too long. It is great to see early "performances" by Steve Buscemi and Mark Boone Junior yet that is its only novelty. "Film House Fever" is best forgotten like any piece of grade Z junk.
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