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Director: Kevin Strange
Starring: Kevin Strange,
Joshitsuo Montoya, Chadwick Cockstriker, Cris
Deveroux, John The Band Guy, Matt Ringering, Dr.
Lippy Longstocking
Screenplay: Kevin Strange
Tagline: He'll turn
your wet dreams into bloody nightmares!
Country: USA |
Dream Reaper (the movie) is a
no budget rocker horror comedy from Hack Movies…wait,
where are you going? Hold on, hold on, it's
not as bad as it sounds.
A group of teens (???) are in the "most
Metal Metal band of 2005," Dream Reaper
(the band). The lead singer wants to continue
down the Metal pathways and sing songs about sea
monsters (a man after my own heart), but the bassist
wants to explore some new ideas musically. The
singer leaves the band practice in a huff, falls
asleep, and wakes up with some guy in a cheap
cloak, a cheap mesh mask, and a REALLY cheap red
hood in the room with him. The film actually mentions
how bad this get up is, which is good because
it's like a terrible Urban Legend knock off.
Anyway, it turns out the guy in the funny hood
is the Dream Reaper (the bad guy). He orders Dream
Reaper (the band) be disbanded. From that point
forward, most members of the band who masturbate
fall asleep shortly afterwards and are killed
by the Dream Reaper (the bad guy). If you ever
thought a cheap plastic scythe wasn't dangerous, Dream Reaper (the movie) exists
to prove you wrong!
Obviously, this film owes a bit to one Frederick
Krueger, and perhaps also J.R. Bookwalter's TERRIBLE The Sandman, but Dream
Reaper (the movie) also brings a Kevin
Smith feel to the proceedings, particularly in
a cum gag that heavily echoes Mallrats. Dream Reaper (the movie) doesn't
try to hide its lack of budget; it embraces it,
turning it into further joke material. Melon "head"
crushing is taken to extremes, and there's
no attempt made to cover up the fact that one
character's intestines are made of balloons.
The fights are truly something to behold. The
first battle is the best ninja fight this side
of Shogun, and the second is
so good you'd think it was being put on
by Star Wars nerds while in a
queue for a festival screening.
The film would've greatly benefited from
tighter editing, particularly in the running masturbation
gags. The acting mostly suits the project, and
I must admit I often found the cheesy performance
from the lead funny. Lines are flubbed and the
cast look into the camera, but given how unpretentious Dream Reaper (the movie) is,
it's hard to get annoyed.
The one thing I couldn't forgive was the
abundance of gay jokes. I know this is a very
accurate portrayal of the Metal scene, but, aside
from the RARE exception, these jokes are no cleverer
in Dream Reaper (the movie) than
they were the first 100 times you heard them from
your Metalhead friends. |
