A temperamental
filmmaker Don Cardini (Dan Ellis)
seems to be violent with the people that
he works with in order to make his films
look right which are bad horror films.
These people push his buttons big time as
well as seeming to be obsessed with the
scream queen in his film Riversa
Red (Sindy Farguna) in which he worms his
way into her good side which is difficult
to do.
Don goes even crazier than ever which
gets him kicked off the set so he starts
to slay the people involved with the film
and manipulates a Lodgeboy (Nick
Windebank) into filming his own snuff
films as well as forcing the cast to kill
one another while pointing a gun at them.
When I saw that
this was a Plotdigger Film
Production I was expecting it to
be full of skin and perverted killing yet
this was taken in a bit of a different
direction than most of their productions.
There's some beginnings with people
getting ready to film their locations
with one of the filmmakers Don
Cardini acting arrogant and demanding
which seems to be common with the showbiz
industry. I had to tell ya that the
locations used in this flick was
wonderfully done on the great outdoors
almost like a Friday the 13th
type of environment.
Suddenly the film is rolling and the
people playing actors perform badly which
looked intentional like Ryan
Nicholson wrote it in making fun of
really bad low budget horror film's which
really worked along with gory props that
were well done too.
We do have some skin in the film but it
isn't overly done plus there was no rape
scene's either which is a nice change for
once.
A good discussion between Don towards Riversa Red in their
vehicle together with her getting tired
and acting a little sleazy as well as him
seeming interested in all of this which
looked well done as well as good camera
shots on one another too.
In the film there's lots of cheesy
slapstick moments like violent producers
and directors ehich doesn't look too
convincing with all the assault that's
happening to them but yet it seemed like
some descent timing in a corny comedic
fashion. The writing was well done with
arrogant filmmakers on a set though.
The killing scene's used in the flick
needed improvement big time when Don
really goes berserk in which he doesn't
look like an insane serial killer in
which these moments were supposed to look
convincing and it fails.
Yet there's some intense and disturbing
moments when Don makes his own snuff film
by forcing others to hurt or kill one
another as well as making them bury each
other alive in which it's in the mind
wondering if they will really be forced
in order to do a nasty trick since Nicholson
was brilliant writing a psychological
element here. Then it falls flat
afterwards with one of the surviviors
finding out what has happened to some of
the dead bodies along with a crappy
ending too which didn't seem to make
sense either.
There are nice shots on Don washing away blood on the front of his
vehicle as well as him getting nasty
towards Lodgeboy by offering him to be his camera person in
which this looked quite intimidating and
intense on all that was shown here.
There's a nice camera shot focusing on Don dragging Stenna into a
dirt pit with nice intense screaming of
her trying to struggle along with him
slamming something down on her head which
looked very brutal and intense.
Bottom line is the film didn't carry a
heck of a story even if Nicholson
tried so hard to make a story out of it
as well as borrowing some elements from
the odd old school horror ideas. It saves
from bombing due to some great scenery
and the odd fun moments with the cast
acting out a bad horror movie in itself.
Otherwise this film was really a waste of
time. Sorry I just couldn't get into it.
Most of the acting in this
film was quite bad and uninspired but I
will dig up on who is worht mentioning.
Dan Ellis
(Don Cardini) had the right looks but was
extremely wooden in his performance as an
arrogant movie maker in which he tries to
have an obnoxious attitude but is really
being nothing but loud and saying his
lines. A nice cheesy moment with him approaching his fellow actor aggressively with a knife and
charging menacingly after him in which
this looked at an average pace in which he needed to up
it a bit more to make this a convincing
horror attack. He really brought out some
great manipulative anger towards everyone
by forcing them to do deadly deeds while
things are being videotaped which almost
looked hard to watch by what he was
forcing everyone to do. He seems to get into it a bit
better when he goes on a killing spree or
manipulating others to do his deadly
deeds but that's about it. Sorry folks.
Sindy Faraguna (Riversa Red)
portrayed a mediocre scream queen actress on
set with her high pitched speaking as
well as coming across as somewhat a
lustful type. She really brought out alot
of intense emotions with her part when
she was in danger which seemed quite
interesting by acting like she was
totally out of her mind and twisted like.
Nice
intense crying and screaming while she is forced to bury someone
alive. A great menacing moment by her with a shovel by whacking somebody across the head which at first it didn't
look too brutal but then afterwards she
really got into it big time. But yet she was over the top in many
moments on her scene's too and needs alot of work within her characteristics.
Nick
Windebank (Lodgeboy)
seemed to come across as a creepy type
close to the end of his performance which
at times worked and other times seemed a
bit too melodramatic. In the beginning he
does his part not too badly as a passive
type in the film. Does well getting
strange towards his fellow actress. He does well by grabbing her
and being rough with her. This looked
very energetic and a little intense.
Nathan Durec (Luke) came across
impressively at first as an arrogant
director with his aggressive attitude but
there were times he dragged and was a
little too over the top. He brought out
some descent energy at least.
That's about it folks who stood out in
this flick.
A woman is briefly seen
naked coming out of the water and sitting
on a pier
Another woman is barebreasted while
putting suntan lotion on her
There's gory props
on a film set like a body cut in half
hanging from a tree or a cut body lying
on the ground.
A person is bloodily stabbed
A face is bloodily smashed
Dead bodies are bloodied in a bag in a
trunk of a van
The music is half good and
half bad. There's many low sounding
techno type keyboard beats for the
suspenseful moments which didn't do
anything for me. However there's was some
odd piano plunking which sounded neat as
well as a groovy type of synthesizer
music for when there was a scene with a
maniac washing off his vehicle from blood
splattered on it which sounded quite old
school but in a great fashion. There's
perfect 80's sounding keyboard playing
with some good synthesizer beats too for
the closing credits which is a bonus
thanks to Gianni Rossi's work on
all of this since she has done the same
for Gutterballs. |
