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Dangerous Men
USA 2005
produced by John S. Rad (= Jahangir Salehi)
directed by John S. Rad (= Jahangir Salehi)
starring Michael Gradilone, Melody Wiggins, Michael Hurt (as Kelay Miller), James Brockman, John Clure, Gorge Derby, Honey Goldberg, Roohi, Roya Saghafy, Bryan Jenkins, Thomas Shelorke, Carlos Rivas, Paul Arnold, Jessica Zaccaro, Donna Ohana, Dory Mai, Mathew Curtin, Coti Cook, Mark Besharaty, David Neff, Elle Squadrito, Cita Thompson, Gil Gex, Tripp Law (as Lawrence McNeal III), Dutch Van Delsem, Nathaniel Milton jr, John Drake, Hunter Person, Harold Pritchett
written and music by John S. Rad (= Jahangir Salehi)
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Mira (Melody Wiggins) has just seen her fiancé Daniel (Michael Hurt)
slaughtered by a couple of bikers, one of whom (John Clure) he has taken
with him to his grave ... but Mira hitches a ride with the other one
(George Derby) to show him some gratitude for being a real man - but
instead of giving him the sex he expects, she slaughters him, then runs
away to slaughter many a pervert she meets on the way to - nowhere in
particular. But slaughtering pervs gives her the only satisfaction after
Daniel's death ... so she becomes a hooker to meet (and kill) them on a
professional basis. But before long, the police starts to close in on her
... Ah yeah, the police: David (Michael Gradilone), Daniel's brother
happens to be a police detective, and to investigate the murder of his
brother and disappearance of Mira, he takes some time off the force to
check out the biker club Daniel's killers have been members of - and
eventually, he gets on the trail of their boss Black Pepper (Bryan
Jenkins). But local police aren't too happy about his lone wolf strategies
... Dangerous Men is a movie that has a rather unique
history: It was made by a Persian filmmaker who has fled from Ayatollah
Khomeinei's revolution in 1979, started from scratch in the USA and while
the movie got a theatrical release to an audience of (reportedly) tens in
2005, it was actually shot in the early to mid 1990s, and maybe even
earlier (John S. Rand was never completely specific about this), and it
seems to have been shot over a rather long period of time, which might
explain the two essentially unconnected major storylines, and also the
choppiness of the plot as such. And all of this is rather badly handled,
too - which makes the film so great, because it seems to just not give a
fuck, and that blended with a 1970s grindhouse-worthy (including all the
nudity you'd expect) rape-revenge/cop action movie with not actually
up-to-par and yet hammed up action, wonderfully blunt set-ups and
performances, and a fittingly not-so-great synth score ... will just charm
every trash movie fan out there ... truly, for acquired tastes this is
nothing short of a must-see!!!
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