No More Horribly Slow Murderer?

"The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon," the one about the demonic figure trying to kill an ordinary guy with a spoon, has been removed by its user, possibly in an attempt to try to force more people to buy it when it comes out on DVD. Don Hertzfeldt also doesn't put his films out for free, which makes sense, considering they're his major source of income.

It's an interesting choice on the filmmaker's part--do you continue to leave it up to promote & publicize either the short film on DVD (or, in the case of "Spoon," the forthcoming feature-length release), or do you take it down and hope your product is strong enough and original enough to get people to buy it? I'm disappointed that "Horribly Slow Murderer" is no longer available, but it's quickly risen to the ranks of the one of my new must-haves on DVD.

So there you go.

To replace "Horribly Slow Murderer," here's H.P. Lovecraft writing copy for Whitman's Samplers:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/8/15burns.html