WoW Moviewatch: The Orchard
by Michael Gray 
Sep 16th 2009 at 12:00PM
We first talked about the BitFilm Festival 2009 Machinima contest when we featured La Terroriste last week. With the clock running out on the time for votes, I wanted to mention another machinima entry for this year's contest. The Orchard is a horror-genre movie from Dan Ross (otherwise known as Lafawnduh). Dan is the same creator who filmed The Ultimate Snowdown.
The Orchard is an incredibly well-crafted movie that is deeply steeped in its own genre and moody atmosphere. I particularly enjoy how the story is tied up without an obvious, author-determined morality applied to Margaret. The video is well worth the time, and Dan should be applauded for his artwork.
Ultimately, I wish good luck to La Terroriste, World of Workcraft, and The Orchard in the BitFilm contest. While WoW.com obviously has no stake in the contest, I think all three would be worthy winners. Good luck, folks!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
tom Sep 16th 2009 12:20PM
Wow! I'm totally speechless.
Very very well done.
The first half reminded me alot of Alone in the dark / Resident evil, the camera angles and atmosphere were top notch.
The ending was....wow I'm still getting over how great it was, Very M.Night Shyamalan.
Very well done 10/10
Superthrust Sep 16th 2009 4:09PM
This reminds me of the movie "Secret window" or something (the one with johnny depp)...
The end, where he's eating the corn...
Tri Sep 16th 2009 12:21PM
Can I have some of that fertilizer for my fruit trees? xD
Jurias626 Sep 16th 2009 12:48PM
That was a great movie! GJ!
Veltins Sep 16th 2009 1:44PM
Simply great! Loved the quality and story was cool too.
Kia Sep 16th 2009 12:26PM
Haha, wow. That was great. xD
JLocke Sep 16th 2009 12:35PM
think this video was previously shown here, but still worth a watch, love twists L(
Yeng Sep 16th 2009 1:19PM
Yeah
http://www.wow.com/2008/11/03/wow-moviewatch-the-orchard/
Agony Sep 16th 2009 1:45PM
Good video, yeah, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that Michael doesn't know how to use his own site's search engine and suffers from long-term memory loss. This is the second time this month, and the fourth time this year that he's featuring something that he featured before.
Fyurae Sep 16th 2009 3:17PM
This was the first machinima I ever saw.
Its true this has been featured on WOWMW before, but remember that the author of this column has changed about five times this year, so don't take it so hard on the new guy.
Jason Sep 16th 2009 3:09PM
Yeah...a nice video and somewhat timely since Brewfest is approaching, but it's definitely a repeat.
Schnitsky Sep 16th 2009 12:40PM
I like the darkness of this movie, brings a totally new feel to WoW characters. Excellent job!!
Zinc Sep 16th 2009 1:01PM
From 3:30 - 3:55, is that the same music used in the SAW movies? Awsome choice, it sounded great there.
ZUR13L Sep 16th 2009 1:16PM
haha! That was fun. My thoughts are along the same lines as Tom (1st poster).
Thanks!
Drow Sep 16th 2009 2:21PM
I liked the video a lot, even though that idea was taken directly from the movie, "The Window" lol. Oh and apples instead of corn!
livvie Sep 16th 2009 2:36PM
it's also kind of a rip-off of motel hell. so yeah.
BigB Sep 16th 2009 4:10PM
that was deliciously morbid., I loved it! one of my fav now machinimas
Jason Sep 16th 2009 5:27PM
I've seen this before...has it been featured on Moviewatch in the past? I'm trying to figure out where I've seen it from...
xxfinal_d3stinyxx Sep 16th 2009 6:44PM
i'm....like really speechless..i mean that was an amazing machinima...Best one i seen...good graphics,good story line, good music,good theme...Fantastic
Badger Sep 17th 2009 3:24PM
There is/was someone by the name of "Lafawnduh" on Moon Guard who walks around spouting negative stereotypes of African American women. This can't possibly be the same guy, can it?