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Dreaming Purple Neon
USA 2016
produced by Todd Sheets for Extreme Entertainment
directed by Todd Sheets
starring Jeremy Edwards, Eli DeGeer, Grant Conrad, Millie Milan, Ricky Farr, Antwoine Steele, Nick Randol, Jolene Loftin, Ana Plumberg, Jack McCord, Daniel Bell, Stacy Weible, Jodie Nelles Smith, Dilynn Fawn Harvey, Glen Tee, Rachel Lagen, Mike Gordon, Eve Smith, Carol Adams, Brandon Grossheim, Tom Berg, Dave Edwards, Michael Adams, Steven Wallace, Ella Reign, Jenna Lee McCarty, Logan Carlin, Mykah Mleek, Shalyn Blain Lillard, Kari Moulder, Steve Hoffine, Colin Prouse, Travis Porter, J Purkaple, Kelsey Roberts, Scott Simmons, Alexander Brotherton, Jonna Sowders, Douglas Epps, Sheila Brandon Allen, Jacki Butler, Brian Shadensack, Jessica Orne Holroyd, Joel D. Wynkoop, Jerry Angell, Verona Fink, Kayla Mitchell, Bradley Beeghley, Misty Carey
written by Todd Sheets, music by Toshiyuki Hiraoka, special makeup effects by Jacki Butler, Marvin Blake, Michael Wulf, Stacy Weible, visual effects by Tony Masiello, Todd Sheets
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Rather out of the blue, Cat (Millie Milan) is asked by her boss Tyrone
(Ricky Farr) to help him cover up a murder he has just committed in his
office - but once he's gone she does the right thing and snatches the
murder weapons and her boss's secret stash of drugs (the titular purple
neon) to hand everything over to the police as evidence. But she
decides to ask her friend Denise (Eli DeGeer) for some moral support, so
stops by the dental clinic to pick her up. Dallas (Jeremy Edwards) has
been a drifter for years, and all this time he was never able to forget
his one true love, Denise. So once back in town, he decides to at least
pay her a visit at the dental clinic she works at, and he brings his buddy
Chris for moral support. ... so the situation at the dental clinic gets
a little tense and confusing, especially when Tyrone and his right hand
man Ray Ray (Antwoine Steele) show up as well, demanding the weapons and
drugs to be returned. And Tyrone and Ray Ray do have nervous trigger
fingers. What they don't know though is that in the basement beneath the
clinic, Cyrus Archer (Jack McCord), the very man who has employed Tyrone
and Ray Ray to overlook the sale of purple neon in the streets, holds a
Satanic ritual to bring back the queen of hell, a ritual consisting of all
sorts of blood sacrifices and demonic apparitions and the like ... and
somehow our quarelling heroes get sucked into this and find there's no way
out of the clinic that has somehow magically turned into a true maze - a
maze riddled with demons, monsters and other blood-thirsty creatures ... I'll
admit, the first few minutes of Dreaming Purple Neon are spent with
setting up the story in a bit too much detail, but once the demonic action
kicks in, it kicks in but good: Be prepared for all sorts of gory and
grotesque, tied together in a very stringent and rather nightmarish story
that manages to blend atmosphere and all-out gore in an effective way. And
one can't denie, the gore effects are not only inventive but really
well-executed and of the practical variety. Stylistically, the film is
reminiscent of grindhouse and early shot-on-video fare without trying
overly hard to just pay hommage or (worse) add post-modern irony to the
mix. It's basically cool old school horror that might even stay with you
for a while.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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