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Fantacide
UK 2007
produced by Shane Mather, Dean Mather, Nicola Fenn for Masochist Pictures
directed by Shane Mather
starring Peter Rands, Paul Stone, Ivan Brady, Derrick Mighall, Dean Mather, Shane Mather, Michelle Walkling, Peter Symonds, Andy Warnes, Adrian Broom
story by Shane Mather, Dean Mather, screenplay by John Shand, incidental music by Kevin MacLeod, Perry Slater, songs by Shane Mather, special makeup effects, gore effects by Dean Mather
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Journalist Bobby (Ivan Brady) has lost his colleague during an
assignment to report about the rituals of a Nazi cult, and now he hires
private eye Del Fontaine (Paul Stone) to find her. In the course of his
investigations, Fontaine soon learns
about a mythical spear that is supposed to give its owner ultimate power,
and he learns that two Neo Nazi fractions, one led by Oppenheimer (Peter
Rands), the other by Chin (Derrick Mighall), are after the spear. He also
figures that Bobby is probably more interested in the spear than in his
colleague, but that doesn't bother him any. Eventually, Oppenheimer's gang
fights the spear, but that news doesn't go unheard by either Fontaine or
Chin. Eventually, Fontaine is captured by Oppenheimer's men and intended
to be the centerpiece/sacrifice of a ritual to activate the spear, but
Bobby and Fontaine's right-hand man Vince (Peter Symonds) sneak up on the
ceremony to prevent anything bad from happening, and so do Chin and men -
and eventually, everybody dies! How cute! A movie that tries
desperately to be offensive and subversive. Everything's there, Nazi
paraphernalia, gay SM sex, explicit and gory murders, (ironically meant)
racist and sexist slogans, a bit of political satire and the like. Thing is, as a whole, the film is
a lot less offensive and subversive than its elements might suggest, mainly
because the overlong thing is held together by pretty little, its story
hardly even deserves to be called that, and the endless succession of all
things offensive is above all pretty tiring. Add to this a directorial
effort that lacks any and all imagination and any and all decent pacing
and some of the worst actors the UK has to offer, and you are left with
something you really don't want to see.
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