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‘Zero Charisma’ Movie Review – one of the best American indies this year

This micro-budget, homespun geeksploitation comedy about a Metal-loving game master named Scott Weidemeyer, plunges so deep into the heart of nerd culture, it might just be the best Geek film in years. Zero Charisma simultaneously, ridicules and celebrates Dungeons & Dragons-style role playing through the eyes of a neurotic Game Master who lives in his grandmother’s house, works a lousy job at a donut shop, and spends all his free time as the supreme Game Master guiding his role-players through a journey of fantasy and adventure in a game he’s spent three years working on.

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SXSW 2013: ‘Zero Charisma’ is a middle aged bildungsroman through the lens of the tabletop gaming world

Zero Charisma Directed by Katie Graham, Andrew Matthews Written by Andrew Matthews US, 2013 There is no question that the once derivative term “geek” has become a widely accepted and sometimes lauded term. To be a geek in 2013 means something entirely different than it did twenty, even ten, years ago. The wide access of …

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