Reno
Miller (Jimmy Laine) is a starving artist
trying to pay his rent along with his
roomates Carol (Carolyn Marz) and a
strung out addict Pamela (Baybi Day) but
they aren't succeeding plus they are
getting a bunch of racket in another room
as a local band rehearses their music for
upcoming gigs.
But slowly demons starts to penetrate his
sanity and turn up the amps of his blood
red visions.
Slowly he starts to lose it and goes
crazy by using a drill and killing local
street bums and other people and no one
knows who is causing this mess.
This film was a
complete bore and it took forever to get
to the horror in the film as it just
seemed like a crazy and boring drama
halfway through.
This is NOT like Slumber Party
Massacre so don't even think of
it. It's almost like one of those lame
drive in movies. The film remains pretty
much obscure too. Avoid it.
The actors were
full of virtual unknown's and it does
seem a little rough but mainly due to
this film's low budget.
Jimmy
Laine however contributed quite a
bit to his role as a demented artist
losing his mind to pay the rent as he
shows true intensity.
Baybi Day seemed believeable as a
drug addict roomate that loves to party.
Alan Wynroth is just passable as a
flakey landlord.
There is a lesbian make out
scene with two women taking a shower and
their breasts are exposed.
There's a butt shot on Carolyn Marz
after taking a shower wrapped in a towel.
People are being drilled
with lots of blood splurting out
A woman's eye's are plucked out during a
hallucination sequence.
The directing by Abel Ferrara
is quite boring and
uninspired but not all of it is terrible
as he shows some memorable moments.
He shows a very cheesy beginning with
himself as he credited himself as Jimmy Laine in
the film walking into a church and there
are strange surroundings with him that
involved Maria Helhoski as a Nun
and James O'Hara as someone that
talks to him strangely at the church.
He does direct an interesting scene with Laine
and Baybi Day when he tries
to drill a hole in her door and she's so
strung out on drugs not deciding where
the hole should be. It makes me think of
watching a Warhol flick.
There's also a good scene when Laine gets
angry that he smashes his phone out of
his window building.
Laine also looked good at going
crazy with Carolyn Marz when she
asks him when his painting is done and he
nearly goes in a rage.
We see many annoying scene's with a band
practising and a fair dialogue between Laine
complaining to Alan Wynroth's
character about the noise which could've
used a bit more work.
A scene looks very effective when Laine
starts menacingly chopping up a dead
rabbit to cook for dinner.
There's another real intense dialogue
between both Marz and Laine
when she tells him about a killer that
she read in the paper and he verbally
attacks her causing her to cry which
looked good.
He also looked good at looking nearly
memancing coming into the room where both
Marz and Day are sleeping
together as if he was going to do them in
next.
There are some interesting killing
scene's performed by Laine but
the most effective one's were when Laine
bolts a street bum to some building walls
and then does him in.
The other good one was when he is
standing in his suite with a half cast
shadow on him holding the drill and
looking menacing and then pinning Harry
Schultz's character in a corner and
doing him in.
When Schultz's corpse is on a
doorway and Day's character
encounters the dead body she doesn't
react to well to it.
The music was roughly
composed by Joe Delia with a bad
synthesizer but yet he does make it sound
dark and interesting in certain parts of
the film.
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