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HOT ROD HEARSE (Ghost
Limb Films) 1996, give or take a year (I forget). Horror/action? Approx
30 minutes. NR, nudity, violence. After playing a gig in front of one
person, a club owner yells at the band and tells them to scram. As usual
at times like this, the band follows the owner into the bathroom and gives
him a beating- stomping on his glasses for good measure no less. Come the
next day, all the band members somehow screw up their lives in some form;
get into fights, mess up their jobs, etc. Somehow, someway, the band is
suddenly carted around by a transparent hearse and extract revenge on
those who wronged them in the past.
Damn, for only 30 minutes (or so), you get more debauchery here
than a weekend get away for Catholic priests at the local Boys Club. Fist
fights, beatings, poisonings, a lone slam dancing drunk, urination,
nudity, tin foil, voyeurism, rock music, and a woman pizza for dinner are
crammed down your throat at a vomit inducing rate. Yes, woman pizza. Pure
genius. Oh, pardon me. How could I forget the buffed out, meathead Italian
bouncer? Cut off shirt and all. Alright, so the Italian dude’s not an
act of debauchery, but he sho’ is funny. I honestly don’t know how the
band was able to carry out their acts in the hearse; Death? Aliens? It’s
your call chumly. Something about this entire flic is grubby. The
characters, the way it was shot, and even the film quality stinks of
grubbiness. Of course, the grubby adjective is meant as a compliment. Big
shot Hollywood directors spend millions trying to capture the attitude and
essence of their movies and although I have no idea what the budget of
this movie was, nobody does a better job of pulling you into his sick
little low budget movie world than director Chris Frieri. Is it a
coincidence that the first four letters in Chris’ last name is the same
as the first four letters in the word fried? - Denis Sheehan
B REEL (Ghost
Limb Films) Approx 16 minutes. In black and white, this
is a sixteen minute collection of outtakes from Ghost Limb’s release
“Golliwog’s Cake-Walk.”
What are the outtakes you ask?
Well, sixteen minutes of female models modeling naked. Lots of skin, lots
of close-ups. Great job with the editing! If these are the outtakes, I
can’t wait to see the actual movie. – Denis Sheehan
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