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Daisy Derkins vs. The Bloodthirsty Beast of Barren Pines!
USA 2019
produced by Mark Mackner, Frances Mackner, Andre Bennett, Eric K. Knoll for Monstros Madre
directed by Mark Mackner
starring Mary Sack, Dahlia DeSade, Gia Z. Taylor, J.D. Korejko, Julie Ann Hamolko, Shoshanna Hill, Doug Layne, Rob Dimension, Dave Ferrier, Lloyd Kaufman, Cedric Crouch, Mark Mackner, Eric K. Knoll, Ted Moehring, Matthias Lowjewski, Andrea Bateman, Meagan Rumberger, Alison DeLune Batten, Emily Rose Currier, Tweak A. Moffitt, Doug Perry
written by Mark Mackner, music by Cedric Crouch, songs by The Piss Shivers, The Barbarellatones, special effects makeup by Eric Welsch, Roxann Smith, Marah Carpenter
Daisy Derkins
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Somewhere deep in the woods of nowhere, USA: A punk band's car breaks
down and Mia (Dahlia DeSade) and Vex (J.D. Korejko) and the hitchhiker
they've picked up, Daisy the monster slayer (Mary Sack), go (as in walk
through enverending woods) looking for help while their bandmate Heck
(Cedric Crouch) stays with the car - and it's not long before he's
attacked and brutally dismembered by a dinosaur that's supposed to exist
only in folklore. At the same time, Evelyn (Gia Z. Taylor), Scarlet (Julie
Ann Hamolko) and Anna Maria (Shoshanna Hill) trying to make good their
escape from a bank heist gone somewhat wrong - well, Evelyn and Scarlet
got trigger happy and shot a few people, and now Anna Maria, the good girl
of the group, is pissed. Of course, their car breaks down in the same
woods, and while trying to get back to civilisation, the girls get into a
fight, and Anna Maria gets away with the loot after knocking out the other
two. Bounty hunter Wyngate Van Cleef (Lloyd Kaufman) is after the girls,
instead runs into Daisy and company - and makes such a mess out of it that
he's knocked out and tied to a tree. Anna Maria eventually catches up with
Daisy and friends - which puts them all into a precarious situation, as
not only are Anna Maria's associates after her, but also a trio of
policemen (Doug Layne, Rob Dimension, Dave Ferrier), to mutant cannibals
(Mark Mackner, Eric K. Knoll) ... and of course, there's also the dinosaur
that needs to be dealt with. Now thank God Daisy knows a thing or two
about fighting monsters, but is "a thing or two" actually
enough? Now ok, don't expect any greatness from this movie, it
was done on a very low budget, which often shows, and on pretty much all
technical levels. And yet, the film has plenty to love about it:
Aparently, the people behind it not only loved what they were doing, they
also very apparently love the genre they are operating in, and they just
love to spin an entertaining, pulpy yarn in an anything-goes manner and a
decidedly tongue-in-cheek approach to all things. As a result, we get
something that might not be great in the traditional sense of the word -
but wildly entertaining for sure.
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