Killjoy
Deep in an inner city hell, a ghastly figure is killing off the bad guys. A vigilante, or a demon? For the beautiful high school student, Jada, that's the question that will bring her face to face with the killer clown Killjoy.
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- Cast:
- Carl Washington , Napiera Groves , William L. Johnson , Arthur Burghardt
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Please don't spend money on this.
I wanted to but couldn't!
A Masterpiece!
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
This is a low budget African-American horror film that develops into a better franchise. Michael (Jamal Grimes) has a crush on Jada (Vera Yell), who in turn is the girlfriend of bad boy Lorenzo (William L. Johnson). Lorenzo and his gang are bullies and thugs. Michael attempts to use black magic to conjure up something called "Killjoy" which we know nothing about, or him as there is no character introduction.Things don't go well for Michael and we jump to a year later where the remaining cast must combat Killjoy, a magical killer clown with an ice cream truck transporter. The acting and lines were fairly bad. There is a magical homeless guy that really isn't explained. The clown was rather repulsive, and that was by design...I think.Parental guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Napiera Groves, Miss District of Columbia 1997)
This film is broken on every level, the acting is horrible and cringe inducing, the visual effects look like a 2006 YouTube video, the story is nonsensical and, the whole movie works more as a comedy than a horror movie. (Bad pun incoming) This movie killed any and all joy I had before watching it.
I'm truly shocked that some folks actually liked this movie. I can't think of one thing in it that could possibly be considered good. The acting is horrible, the dialogue is cringe inducing, the story....did a six year old write it?You'd hope that at least the movie would make up for it's lack of everything else by making the monster...Killjoy...interesting. Maybe a few gory murders or something. Nope. Even the death scenes are lame. You won't root for the characters or the killers, you'll just wish you hadn't watched this terrible movie. Amazingly this movie had a sequel. I really don't get it...did this movie actually turn a profit? (Maybe it did, as the budget looks like it was around 200 bucks.) It reminds me of Patton Oswalts rant on making a movie.
Okay, where to begin. Okay I'll start with the story, its a decent story its nothing special, a kid gets murdered my gangsters and a demon clown named Killjoy exacts revenge in the kids honor. The acting ranges from OK to bad so I guess I can say the acting was stiff. Killjoy is a somewhat likable but very annoying character, he spits out TONS of one liners, and some are funny and some are not. The effects in this movie are awful, there is a scene where I guy is getting turned to ash and you just have to see it for yourself it is that bad. So I would say skip it. The sequel to this is even worse but this series saves itself with killjoy 3 and I have heard good things about the fourth so I will just have to see it myself.