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Fear Of Girls

Posted February 3, 2006

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.

» Categories: film | Author: rex

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9 Comments:

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

»» Submitted by »»» rex at 5:43 PM on February 3

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

»» Submitted by Lisa at 5:54 PM on February 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....

»» Submitted by »»» xbryanx at 5:56 PM on February 3

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

»» Submitted by »»» gerg at 6:11 PM on February 3

"God knows that Marianne is sterile."

Classic!

»» Submitted by »»» alexis at 7:23 PM on February 3

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

»» Submitted by frustrated filmster at 12:26 PM on February 4

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

»» Submitted by Slim at 11:34 AM on February 6

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, ..."

»» Submitted by J.D. at 9:29 AM on February 7

A Myspace update.

»» Submitted by »»» kristoff at 4:48 PM on February 8

»»» = registered user. click on it to see the user's profile.

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Fear of Girls D&D Mockumentary: Twin Cities filmmaker Ryan Wood put together a hilarious mockumentary for $800 about a couple of over-the-top Dungeons & Dragons geeks called Fear of Girls. Apparently MTV is now knocking at Wood's door.

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