Killer Flick

Starring:Fred Dennis, Tod Thawley, Sheri Hellard, Karen Christensen, Christian Leffler, Jon Kinney, Emmett Grennan, Creighton Howard, Kathleen Walsh
Director: Mark Weidman
Studio: Vanguard Cinema
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Directed by Mark Weidman. Outlaw filmmakers Rome, One-Eye, Max and Buzz hit the highway with guns blazing and cameras rolling, capturing footage - and hostages - along the way. Committed to their art like no filmmakers before them, these rebels will kill to make a movie. Together they cruise the desert headed for Hollywood. Their mission: to kidnap Virgil Morgan, their favorite movie actor of all time. With a wicked sense of humor and a daring sense of style the film delivers more than sex, car chases and explosions. It takes you to the very edge of comedy, action and style.

Killer Flick
Average customer rating:

Unfunny, stereotyped junk.

Here's what film critcs have to say

Killer Flick
Starring: Fred Dennis , Tod Thawley , Jon Kinney , Sheri Hellard , and Karen Christensen
Director: Mark Weidman
Manufacturer: Vanguard Cinema
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00008L40U
Release Date: 2003-05-27

Description

Directed by Mark Weidman. Outlaw filmmakers Rome, One-Eye, Max and Buzz hit the highway with guns blazing and cameras rolling, capturing footage - and hostages - along the way. Committed to their art like no filmmakers before them, these rebels will kill to make a movie. Together they cruise the desert headed for Hollywood. Their mission: to kidnap Virgil Morgan, their favorite movie actor of all time. With a wicked sense of humor and a daring sense of style the film delivers more than sex, car chases and explosions. It takes you to the very edge of comedy, action and style.

Customer Reviews:

Unfunny, stereotyped junk........2005-08-10

The sensitive writer is, of course, gay, though he doesn't seem to think so until the film is half over. I got all the jokes and found 90% of them to not be funny. This is just a bunch of testosterone-laden misogynistic schtick masquerading as a satire when it's in exactly the same position as what it seems to think it's making fun of. Instead of being subversive, as it intends, it reinforces everything such a satire suggests that it dislikes.

The best scene, though, which earns it its extra star, is a self-reflexive moment in which an acting class, consisting of actors who have already appeared in the film go over the lines and comment on how bad the film is. Unfortunately, scenes as self-reflexive as this are few and far between. Weidman ultimately champions his heroes way too much, when their entire goal is to make derivative crap and make money, which is apparently Weidman's goal as well.

It's easy to compare this film to _Cecil B. DeMented_, which it precedes, but John Waters understands satire much better than Mark Weidman, though this film is so bad it might have inspired him.

Here's what film critcs have to say.......2000-02-22

"An outrageous, inspired satire... pertinent and enough to deserve much wider, more accessible play" -- Kevin Thomas, LA TIMES

"Writer-director Mark Weidman cleverly subverts audience expectations" -- Chuck Wilson, LA WEEKLY

"The movie blurs film-within-a-film narrative, filmmaking in-jokes and cartoon violence. I liked its audacity and got the jokes... enjoyed the ride!" -- Allen White, FILMTHREAT ONLINE (www.filmthreat.com)

"One of the festival's standouts... a breathless, funny, inventive film" -- Gary Morris, SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY

"Part self-reflective road movie, part eye-candy, the narrative is a finely stitched patchwork masterpiece. Every battle divides winners and losers, KILLER FLICK emerges from this one gloriously triumphant." -- Marlene Friis, SAN FRANCISCO INDIEFEST

"An American indie-film of the most energetic kind! More than just a low-budget road movie full of action, the clever script holds some slick gags -- Tarantino style -- a handful of action-racketing a la Robert Rodriguez and a dash of absurd irony." -- Mikko Aromaa, ESPOO CINE FILM FESTIVAL, Finland

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Winner, Best Picture, 1998 Pomona Film Festival

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