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Dead Dicks
Canada 2019
produced by Albert I Melamed, Matt Keyes, Chris Bavota, Lee Paula Springer, Heston Horwin (executive) for Postal Code Films, Red Clay Pictures
directed by Lee Paula Springer, Chris Bavota
starring Heston Horwin, Jillian Harris, Matt Keyes, Kristina Sandev, Leyda Aleyli, Dave Campbell
written by Lee Paula Springer, Chris Bavota, music by Tusk & Bruiser, Julien Verschooris
review by Mike Haberfelner
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One night while she's at work bartending, Becca (Jillian Harris)
receives a call from her brother Richard (Heston Horwin) who urges her to
come over, now. Becca isn't too happy about following the whims of
her brother and his often crazy ideas, but she's just too loving a sister
not to come - and she finds him dead, hanged in his closet. But just when
this realization and the shock that comes with it kick in Richard walks in
alive. Now he tells her he for some reason cannot die, and to prove that
he shows her some other corpses, all himself, but dead, and apparently he
has a vagina-like opening in his bedroom where he's reborn (in his
present, adult state) every damn time he dies - which sounds like a handy
thing, but Richard actually really wants to kill himself. Anyways, the
more pressing problem at the moment is, an annoyed neighbour from
downstairs, Matt (Matt Keyes) is sending the superintendent round in the
morning, and there are 4 dead bodies in the apartment, and he's bound to
get the wrong idea. Now Richard isn't very practical, so Becca saws the
dead Richards to pieces to dispose of them in the garbage. However, things
really come to a head when Matt comes up to complain, accidently dies, is
reanimated - but also an incomplete version of him that turns out to be a
monster is reborn, and Becca finds another corpse that's actually ...
herself. Now it seems things really can't get any worse - but actually,
they can ... Not so much in style but in story, Dead Dicks
is a throwback to a certain brand of indie grindhouse flicks from
yesteryear that had an anything-goes quality to them on one hand, but
coupled with a tendency towards surrealism and the macabre, and a
narrative that beneath all it's layers of weirdness is actually pretty
thoughtful and driven by dark humour that might turn towards bleak drama
at any time. On a directorial level, this movie pretty much mirrors that
approach by not going completely over-the-top but keeping its story
grounded enough to be relatable despite all the weirdness, and likewise
the actors all give very down-to-earth performances to make this in a very
unique yet oddly enjoyable piece of "what the fuck?!"
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