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Winos Pete (Conrad Brooks) and Art (Ted V.Mikels) are sitting on a
public bench one Saturday night, drinking their brains away and discussing
what to do, since their money runs awfully low. Utlimately, Pete has an
idea: To kill some hookers. Hookers always have money, and they won't be
missed. Art has second thoughts about this plan, but Pete will have none
of this, and ultimately the two guys talk themselves into a frenzy,
planning on killing school teachers and the local liquor stgore owner as
well - but all of this talk leads to nothing, as they get too drunk to
even leave the park bench, on which they drink themselves into a blissful
coma. Basically, To Kill a Saturday Night, a short based
on an Ed Wood story, was just a fun project Andre Perkowski did with
Conrad Brooks and Ted V.Mikels on a lunch break, and it looks it, too: The
actors are crudely overacting, visibly making fun of themselves and each
other, and are obviously oblivious to the dialogue they are to be
delivering in the final film. This dialogue is just dubbed over the film
footage at a later date with no thought at all given to lip-synching and
the like - so much so that frequently, when one character talks on the
audio, the other moves his lips on the picture. Now all that could
easily be dismissed as just a bad amateur movie - but actually, To Kill
a Saturday Night is more than that: Its weird dialogue carries quite
some subversiveness, its deliberate breaking of cinematic rules gives the
film a certain otherworldly feeling, and its sheer audacity is positively
compelling - but one thing's for sure, the film, with all its
(intentional) shortcomings could not have held its own for more than 11
minutes ... so thank God it's only 11 minutes long.
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