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Fear Of Girls

Local filmmaker Ryan Wood recently had several minutes of internet fame for his short film Fear Of Girls, a mockumentary of two D&D nerds that took $800 to make. It has been a top link this week on blog trackers and has led to a call from MTV.

9 Reader Comments

rex  url05:43pm
Feb 3

(Although I first ran across it a week ago, it took Item World to notify me that it was locally-made.)

Lisa (not verified)05:54pm
Feb 3

D&D? He should have done an Everquest piece if you ask me.

xbryanx05:56pm
Feb 3

That was freakin' great. It was funny to see them sitting out at Lake Nokomis (I think). To bad the name of this guy's production company is yng turks....didn't they do that whole armenian genocide thing....

gerg06:11pm
Feb 3

that was pretty awesome... kept my attention for 10+ minutes, which is saying a lot on the www.

alexis07:23pm
Feb 3

"God knows that Marianne is sterile."

Classic!

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frustrated filmster (not verified)12:26pm
Feb 4

very nice! made me laugh despite my coarse cynical disposition. I give it 3 will o' wisps.

Slim (not verified)11:34am
Feb 6

Makes me want to sign up now for the Geek Prom. But, I have a girl friend, so I guess I can't.

J.D. (not verified)09:29am
Feb 7

Yes, that was Lake Nokomis park at the end of the film. Pretty good in places, even though I think the D&D Geeks Are Funny genre is getting a little old. I did laugh when when DougDoug's brother is trying to say grace and Dougie starts chanting to his pagan gods. And I like how he began nearly every sentence with "Frankly, ..."

kristoff04:48pm
Feb 8

A Myspace update.

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