Chillerama
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, I Was a Teenage Werebear, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.
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- Cast:
- Richard Riehle , Adam Rifkin , Ray Wise , Owen Benjamin , Joel David Moore , Kristina Klebe , Eric Roberts
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Excellent, Without a doubt!!
It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
This is the best bad film I've seen in recent times, it took ridiculous insanity to an all new neon coloured bat s**t crazy level - pooping a rainbow while wearing a unicorn helmet. While there is lots of good there's also lots of bad but all in all I really enjoyed it because the bad was supposed to be bad. Warning - if you don't enjoy bad films, old B-movies or even Troma films you probably won't enjoy this.The movie you are watching is about a drive in cinema, and as such you are presented with four mini movies, by the end of the movie you realise that you are watching a movie about a movie about a drive in cinema showing movies. Don't worry, it isn't hard to follow what's going on, just concentrate on the main wrap around movie for continuity. Main movie: A member of staff from a drive-in cinema had necrophilia urges pre-show, he gets bitten by his ex and takes the infection to work. He works at Kaufman's drive-in cinema which has arrived at choosing time and who's owner Cecil Kaufman is planning to show 4 of the rarest films he's managed to get his hands on over the years of operating the drive-in. Needless to say the virus spreads but you won't believe how, just be ready for a neon zombie orgy in a drive-in cinema by the end of the film.Movie 1: " Wadzilla" A man takes experimental sperm enhancing drugs which leave him with the need to masturbate to relieve pain whenever his balls throb and ache. An unwanted side effect is monstrous mutated sperm he produces (and unleashes) which grows to a humongous size and wreaks havoc, death and destruction across America. This movie is filmed using tricks of the trade in the early 1950's and looks visually stunning as it unfolds.Movie 2: "I was a teenage were-bear" A high school musical story of unexplored homo-erotic feelings and killer were-bears. When "Rebel without a cause" meets "Grease" meets "Twilight" all hell breaks loose and lots of film genres get smashed together for your pleasure. Washed down with happy feel good times this story of depravity is an odd-ball special.Movie 3: "Diary of Anne Frankenstein" A Nazi/Frankenstein spoof were Hitler finds Doctor Frankenstein's diary and makes his own Jew- Frankenstein monster. If you can speak German you'll notice that everyone is speaking German other than Hitler who is speaking "South Park" German, for those who can't speak German the subtitles are accurate and precise enough to get the intended humour.Movie 4: "Deathification" Experimental risky film about faecal fantasies.This film as a whole is not meant to be serious, while the acting is sometimes unconvincing and effects are really really low budget/DIY it is a fun film. It's a colourful film, creative and imaginative, and there are constant tongue in cheek references throughout, a proper nerd horror film with a nod to nostalgia and sexual repression. There is plenty of blood and gore for the modern audience and enough retro kitch for fans of Tromp\B-movie drive in styles. The writer and director have clearly demonstrated their knowledge and love of film, not just horror but film as a whole, as a fellow film fan/nerd I really enjoyed this. This is more slapstick "Grindhouse" and a higher octane "Creepshow", it's a low budget horror comedy spoof classic, its got random gratuitous nudity, violence, sex, blood, guts, laughs, chills, thrills, spills and looks like it was conceived on pills.
On the face of it, CHILLERAMA is a throwback to those horror anthologies of old, complete with a film-within-a-film vibe with a celebration of the old drive-in experience. Unfortunately, in execution it falls substantially short of the mark, having apparently been written by a group of college students with an interest in lowbrow humour and little else.The main focus of CHILLERAMA is to offend as many sensibilities as possible with the explicit, bad taste content. One of the stories is entitled 'The Diary of Anne Frankenstein', which gives you some idea of the level of wit on display here. There are four stories in total, all of them possessing poor writing and bad acting: The first story, WADZILLA, is a sex comedy spoof of the GODZILLA franchise, in which a guy tries a new treatment for his low sperm count and accidentally births a giant sperm which terrorises the city. It's happy to be ridiculous. The second story gets worse; I WAS A TEENAGE WEREBEAR is a gay high school comedy and as terrible as it sounds. By the time of the Nazi FRANKENSTEIN story, interest levels will be waning, and given that virtually nothing happens in this segment you can rest assured that you won't be missing stuff. The final segment, ZOM-B-MOVIE, is a straightforward zombie attack with some fun dialogue (based around quotes from old horror films) to recommend it. It's just a shame that 90% of the movie misses the mark entirely.
I have seen the name many many many times and gave in and watched it expecting not a lot but I was very impressed actually surprised it isn't more popular than it is.Don't start this expecting to get a movie of the year outcome but to get a few laughs. I loved the fact a few of the cast in the Hatchet movies were in this and that made it even more enjoyable for myself. Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2)and Adam Green (Hatchet) both showed they have a humorous side and know how to put it in film. This is definitely going to be purchased in the near future. I give this an 8 out of 10.~Joe
It is difficult to describe this movie, other than to say this is what people used to categorize as "Midnight Madness". And the shoe fits perfectly. This does not shy away offending as much as possible and will go OTT all the time. Of course that also means, you can't feel anything but real craziness and silliness. Spiced with blood and other ingredients, that might make you sick to your stomach (of course that is if you like that sort of stuff).The movie is divided into segments and while the "quality" (if you can call it that) is going up and down throughout, it is great fun to watch this movie. I myself couldn't get behind the last segment of it, but others liked that the most. What it boils down to, is if you can have fun with something crazy like this ...