But, I also watched two really bad short films on a private Roku Channel.. Dead All Night and Driller Killer.
They are remarkable. Truly truly absolutely, um, noteworthy.
My guess is some dudes wanted to make an homage to Escape from New York. But, they didn't want to make it interesting. Also, they didn't have a budget. And, they didn't know anyone who could act. On the plus side it was shot in Canada so maybe Tax Dollars paid for it.
To be fair to the lead Ry Barrett, I had to stop hating him once he said something and I realized by his vocal inflection that he was Canadian. Such a nice young man. I bet he is real polite and courteous. Also he was hung out to dry in so many scenes. You can see it happen and it's fairly amusing. He says his lines menacingly at the bad guy and then.. the camera stays on him.. and then, the camera stays on him... and as the camera remains fixated on him his expression changes from fury (acting) over to when-will-they-cut-away-from-me? terror (real life).
The fight scenes are sort of like what would happen if you took 2 beefy guys to an all you can eat buffet and had them see exactly how much they could eat.. then give them horse tranquilizers, then set them outside in 95 degree heat with 70% humidity and say "pretend to fight." I have seen less lumbering and more enthusiasm in an elephant laying down for his final nap in the elephant graveyard.
Did I mention the music?! It is horrible. Did I mention the plot? Well I don't really need to, for details see Escape From New York and instead of having it make sense and be well executed, pretend a bunch of drunks tried to copy it.
I am a champion of zero budget cinema and this one made me laugh, loudly! I would give these guys a pass on this one if they learned from this and made a better movie later.. I wouldn't be up for watching two of these movies from these guys unless they got better.. but on pure entertainment ratings.. this one was worth my 25 mins or so on the stationary bike. And, it was short! No way could anyone deal with 60-90 minutes of this thing.
True story, my buddy and I obtained the single, if memory serves me right Marty bought it.. and we listened to it and we HATED IT! So, we scratched on the single with a knife to wreck it and wrote things like "worship satan!!" in marker on the record itself and slipped it, inside the sleeve back into the record store bin. I am not sure why we did that but I remember both of us laughing and laughing about it later like we had committed some brave act of music rebellion.
I later found out that the song was based on a movie and made plans to see the movie. And it only took about 30 or so years for me to get around to it. Kinda.
I only watched some of Driller Killer on the bike before other plans came up but.. I am admittedly kind of spellbound. It's so.. dirty, nasty, grimy, unclean, soiled, it makes me want to wash my hands. I don't know why. Basically some guy is an asshole artists and he lives with two asshole artist hotty lesbians and, I think he ends up drilling people with a power drill.
I will tell you what I know. The one girl makes so many long distance calls from their apt that go unpaid that the phone is going to be shut off. The driller guy has awful teeth and a real mean facial expression. He likes to whine and yell. He went to sell a painting to a rich guy and I swear a naked woman was just standing in the corner of the room.
Later, the guy sees an ad on tv for a "portapack" which is a battery powered outlet of some sort.. so I know where this is heading. See this was in the 70's, before battery powered drills. So this guy is going to buy a portapack and hook his electric drill up to it and go driller killing!
This movie left a lasting impression in my mind but I am not sure if its a good one or a bad one. The movie just seems so slimy and evil! I don't know if I can bring myself to finish watching it.Holy crap wiki says it is 96 minutes, my Roku channel had bad info. I wonder how far into it I got.
This guy is wondering if you will watch it.
