Last week’s movie conversation was all about a certain very high-priced vanity documentary with a ginormous promotional budget. But that attention-magnet did not win the weekend box office, nor did “Shelter,” the crown going to a second heavily-advertised mainstream thriller, “Send Help.” However, it just narrowly beat out a new release that was on almost no one’s radar — except, it turns out, a huge online fanbase.
“Iron Lung” is a first theatrical feature endeavor for Mark Fischbach aka Markiplier, a YouTube personality who’s grown a massive following largely on the basis of videos in which he comments on games as he plays them. It’s not the most sophisticated act, but you can see how his amiable, antic personality (plus a dulcet speaking voice) might accrue loyal viewers. They turned out in bulk for a self-financed movie with a marketing outlay of precisely zilch. It was initially…
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