SKULL WORLD review
One of the nice things about getting to know people in the horror biz, is sometimes you get to go “back stage”, even if it’s only in the digital sense. I was recently given the chance to screen SKULL WORLD, a documentary by Unstable Ground’s Justin McConnell, and brother, you’ve never seen a documentary quite like this:
The truth is stranger than fiction. If you don’t believe me, watch SKULL WORLD, a documentary by Justin McConnell about Greg “Skull Man” Sommer, who either never grew up, or grew up the way we all should–by enjoying life.
Sommer is a balding thirty-something who lifts weights, shreds to heavy metal, and, while he earns money on the side digging graves, he becomes perhaps the western hemisphere’s pre-eminent box warrior in which he engages in combat using hand crafted armor and weapons made out of cardboard. You’ve seen kids doing this, maybe. But you’ve never seen adults doing it. And Sommer, who since high school has been donning a rubber skull mask and adopting the moniker of “Skull Man”, is among the elite.
With SKULL WORLD, the viewer is given a front-row seat to two years of Sommer’s life, as he explains, or tries to explain, what …
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April 19, 2013 at 3:14 pm
nice! i want to see this after reading promo at last years Festival of Fear. sounds like ‘Carts of Darkness’, in that no one else could have made this documentary and filmed this particular story quite right. glad that is sounds like all i wanted it to be. looking forward to this.