01-26-2025, 10:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-26-2025, 10:40 AM by Drunk Monk.)
The trailer is just a taste of this insane indie cinema. It's been on my radar for a bit - a few of my fellow DoG reviewers have said it's worth the watch, plus it's got some good buzz from lovers of psychotropic cinema.
It's B&W, an homage to old silent cinema (although it does have some scant moments of dialog and music), Looney Tunes slapstick, Furries, and the inheritor to Carl Borack's The Forbidden Zone. Fencers know Borack and most mock that film, but ED/DM loved it long time, watching it repeatedly during the drought of '87 when all that was had was a nasty bucket of Mexican brown for the whole summer. Given my present state of mind, this was exactly what I needed - mindless wackiness and satirical fun, wild and weird, yet impressive to see that the filmmakers had the stones to see it through.
I was very amused that the main character was named Jean. Jean Kayak. There were moments during Jean's escapades that truly resonated.
D00M recommended but not for conventionalists (do we still allow those in D00M? The older we get, the more lax we've become...) Definitely not PPFY as he was deep in the The Forbidden Zone sux crowd, surely influenced by Stro (Stro and I had a stoned & drunk debate about this once - he won like he always did but it remains one of my fonder memories of him).
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
