Destroy All Neighbors is All Out Spatterpunk!

Anyone looking for a spritual riff on Evil Dead II will find Destroy All Neighbors just as delirious and fun!

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Alex Winter totally slays it in Destroy All Neighbors, a very twisted horror comedy about William Brown (Jonah Ray Rodrigues) trying to finish an album and all his apartment neighbours are rowdy. When all the noise is only adding to this musician’s neurosis, he’s eventually going to crack. Eventually, he takes matters into his own hands (hence the film title) and what happens next is utterly bonkers.

After one “accidental” death of Vlad (Winter), what he does next looks fairly typical for someone who’s finally gone over the edge. I haven’t loved such a film about guilt since American Werewolf in London. The characters whom Brown accidentally takes down are wonderfully wild. The strength in those performances sells this film, and the fun that goes on–whether imagined–totally goes downtown when they come back to life!

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[Fantasia 2021] Is It Just Rock n’ Roll in Hellbender?

The world that’s constructed is fascinating as it may be drawn from hedge witch traditions.

Hellbender (2021) - IMDbEncore Performance Aug 16th
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The best part of Hellbender are the punk rock performances which acts like intermissions this film’s story beats. This mother-daughter grassroots act is fantastic (we need a soundtrack release) and one detail I’m fairly certain this film is making is in how the matriarch is slowly controlling how her teen can express herself. From changes in makeup to full on goth (complete with a prerequisite black crown stolen from Mordor), Izzy (Zelda Adams) seems comfortable. When the outback of the New England world is her playground and there’s a babbling brook and a tiny waterfall in their private property, I’m jealous.

It’s civilization that this teen is told to afraid of. Her mother (Toby Poser) and grandmother experienced it, if the introduction is any indication, and they hate it.

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