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Dropping Evil
USA 2012
produced by Louis Doerge, Adam Protextor, Eliza Ahrens (executive), Peggy Doerge (executive), Ted Pacha (executive), Terry J. Protextor (executive), Max Radl (executive), Anne Sullivan (executive) for Roklaf Studios
directed by Adam Protextor
starring Zachary Eli Lint, Tom Taylor, Rachel Howell, Cassandra Powell, Armin Shimerman, Tiffany Shepis, Devin Smith, Kerry Lane, Edwin Neal, Alex Milton, Esack Grueskin, Kristy Hartsgrove, Lou McKinley, Paetra Ruddy, Kate Thompson, Angie Toomsen, Chris Burns, Molly Freeman, Jessie Witherel, Fred Williamson, Felissa Rose, Rachel Feldmann, Luke Ferguson, Kate Kane, Timothy Krein, Scarlet Salem (= Sarah French), Kristin Owens, Ezekiel Ayers, Sarah Killion
written by Louis Doerge, music by Ian McKinney
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Nancy (Zachary Eli Lint) is the typicaly guy with no friends: He's a
bible-thumping nerd with a girl's name, he's obnoxious, and in his core,
he's boring as hell ... and yet, Samantha (Rachel Howell) persuades her
boyfriend Mike (Tom Taylor) to invite him to a roadtrip so they can hook
him up with her best friend, nerdy Becky (Cassandra Powell) - but Nancy
proves too much even for Becky, so the girls decide to slip LSD into his
drink to make him chill a bit ... which works fine until he begins seeing
things, believes everyone to be a demon, and starts killing the others.
The girls are soon dead, but Mike manages to put up a fight ... that ends
in a totally unexpected way. There's more to this story though than
meets the eye, because the mothers of Nancy, Mike, Samantha and Becky all
were part of an experiment conducted by the church backed organisation
ValYouCorp led by the sinister Boss Man (Armin Shimerman), which has
actually implanted a camera into one of Becky's eyes to watch what's going
on live from afar. But what are the motives of the organisation? To what
extent is the church really involved? What about the sinister businessman
Mr H (Devin Smith)? And the organisation's half human assassin Dionysia
(Tiffany Shepis)? And will there ever be a sequel to this starring Fred
Williamson and Felissa Rose? And will any of these questions ever be
answered? This film in fact starts out less than promising,
just like your typical slasher movie with characters that are just a bit
too over-the-top to properly work ... and then it gets mighty interesting,
when the subplot about ValYouCorp, turns everything onto its head, and
camps things up considerably, with the tongue always firmly in cheek.
Sure, none of the ValYouCorps story makes terribly much sense, and several
narrative threads go missing as the story unfolds or are promised to be
resolved in the (as of yet) imaginary sequel - but hey, it's fun while you
watch it for its mad accumulation of genre clichées, some very humourous
performances (Armin Shimerman and Tiffany Shepis take top honours here)
and its self-consciously camp style!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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