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Zapper!
USA 2023
produced by Skye Armenta, Nick Gatsby for Gatsmenta Films
directed by Nick Gatsby
starring Skye Armenta, Nick Gatsby, Christopher James Taylor, Evgueni Mlodik, Moye The Great, Dustin Shelbourn, Andrew Scott Dixon, Phyllis Ramie, Grifter Timber Wolf, Rick James, Austin Jones, Rob Milton (voice), Aaron Hysom, Tre Thrower, Mikey Armenta, Fabian Somoza Durazo, George Bruner, Rob Charles, Brittany Pollard, Laurel Kathleen Barrett, Will Hayne, Enyah Lliw, Irene Leonard
written and visual effects by Nick Gatsby, music by Nick Gatsby, Julie McCarthy
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Big oil, big finance and big pharma play one of their regular games of
Zapper, where they send zappers all through town to collect puzzle pieces
to try and assemble the king's board. However, these puzzle pieces
could be anything or anyone really, and the players don't know who's whose
zapper (and are sometimes unsure who's their own), the rules of the game
are flexible, there are many death traps and the laws of nature don't
always apply. So really the puzzle pieces make their way from one zapper
to the next (played by Nick Gatsby, Skye Armenta, Crhistopher James
Taylor, Evgueni Mlodik, Moye the Great, Dustin Shelbourn, among others),
and when a mystery man (Rick James) steps in to shake up things with his
own zapper, things get really out of control ...
Above synopsis admittedly does the film little justice, as any
synopsis would, as while the plot, objectively speaking, is pieced
together from adventure and crime thriller tropes, the film follows the
logic of dreams, every now and again crosses over into pure surealism
(like when the characters shoot laser beams out of bananas or pugs), and
even the scenes anchored in the here and now are augmented by a strange,
ever changing colour schemes and psychedelic video effects that give the
move a trip-like atmosphere. And add to that plenty of comedy that ranges
from satire to the absurd to the childish even, and you're in for a rather
unique (and highly watchable) cinematic experience.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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