Director: John Williams
Year: 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
After an accident while on tour, a Christian heavy metal act finds themselves in the middle of a crime spree committed by a killer clown spirit intent on taking revenge on those who wronged him while he was alive, and are forced to team up with paranormal researchers and a psychic in town to stop it.
Review:
This one is among the worst that the indie scene has to offer. Part of it’s myriad of problems is the absolutely chaotic plotline that just feels like random scenes thrown together with no clue how to piece them together. The random nature of what’s going on here, from the metal bands’ relationship with the psycho or the purpose of the paranormal investigators who are brought into this one through inane means, keeps them involved in the crimes for no reason whatsoever and fills in the gaps with what feels like improvised sequences. Trying to show the paranormal team and the detectives solving the crimes by insulting each other or the random shots of the band going around preaching to anyone causes a scattershot and random storyline.
There’s also the overbearing issue here which is the terribly unfunny comedy that’s attempted in the film. The hamfisted jokes about the unprofessional police behavior at the crime scenes, the back-and-forth banter about the misguided religious bands’ lyrics or the flaming homosexual who borders on outright insulting with the over-the-top nature of his portrayal are all clearly intended to be funny. Instead, they come off as painful, much like the random inserts showing people encountering the group or the clown and get insulted by what screams first-draft jokes at best or even improvised sequences. This is all cringeworthy to sit through and not in the slightest bit funny despite all attempts to make it seem so, and the terribly long running time all add up with this one.
The other underwhelming feature here is the unbelievably lame attack scenes that are missing all the payoffs to their supposed setups. The clown is a major part of this, being blessed with such a thick accent his puns are lost in a sea of slurred speech while the motivation for the rampage is revealed so late it barely registers and isn’t entirely unique in the first place. What fun this could’ve had with the goofy and silly attack scenes of having piranhas placed in a bathtub, a victim folded into a balloon animal or a bizarre contraption that will blow someone’s head off all could’ve been fun had any of it been shown yet the off-screen antics here prove unsatisfactory and distracting. All in all, there’s little need to watch this one at any point.
Overview: 0.5/5
One of the most painful, unfunny and just plain arduous genre efforts ever made, this is an endurance test of epic proportions most have no business attempting in the slightest. Only those masochists looking to torture themselves with terrible films will like this one or even want to give this a try while everyone else should have no need to look at this one.
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