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Directed by The Purchase Brothers.

The Escape From City 17 short film series is an adaptation based on the Half Life computer game saga by Valve Corporation. Originally envisioned as a project to test out numerous post production techniques, as well as a spec commercial, it ballooned into a multi part series. Filmed guerilla style with no money, no time, no crew, no script, the first two episodes were made from beginning to end on a budget of [$5000].

The Purchase Brothers have seriously gone to the next level. Video game movies are usually horrible and it would be very easy to turn a story like Half-Life’s into some Uwe Bowl shit storm. I will say the zombies look a bit weak but given the extremely tight budget I’ll let that slip. This looks and sounds just like the game it is eery (well, since they used the same sounds as the game I guess it isn’t THAT eery, but still). I’ve always seen Half-Life as urban exploration with guns, and now the prospect of short films, which BTW seem to deal with the other survivors and not the main character Gordon Freeman, makes me salivate. I’m not expecting Oscar worthy film making here but it is obvious this was done out of pure love. In fact if they turned HL2 into a Hollywood flick it probably would be no better than Max Payne which would be unforgivable.