Raving Maniacs

USA 2005
produced by
Richard Griffin, Ted Marr (co) for Conniption Films, Scorpio Film Releasing
directed by Richard Griffin
starring Patrick Cohen, Emily Morettini, Andrew Vellenoweth, Christine Peltier, Ryan Patrick Kenny, Jennifer Zigler, V.Orion Delwaterman, Edwin Cottle, Patrick Pitu, William DeCoff, Salvatore Marchese, Caleb Emerson, Ricky Spriano, Topher Matthews, Eric Vidal, Scott Foley, Milo Nera, Izzy Kunkle, Alexandra johnson, Hanna Wolf, Aurora Grabill, DJ Venom, Alan Campbell, Joshua James Baker, Jeffrey T.Euangelista
written by Richard Griffin, Trent Haaga, Christine Peltier, music by Daniel Hildreth, techno tracks by DJ Venom, special makeup effects by Ben Chester, Leigh Radziwon

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Jessie Dorfner (Patrick Cohen) has organized what he believes to be the ultimate Halloween-rave, and at first, everything seems to go quite fine. What he didn't expect though is somebody (Edwin Cottle) handing out free drugs, drugs that glow in the dark, drugs that are simply irresistible to all the ravers. Now that wouldn't be too bad, basically, Jessie just wants in on the deal ... but slowly, the drugs are changing the guests, turning them first into sex machines, then into cannibals. The drugs, it later turns out, are basically living beings that need the warmth of human intestines to breed.

Eventually, Jessie finds himself on a dancefloor full of cannibals and corpses. He's unaffected because he doesn't do drugs on the job, but the only other unaffected people are his ex Tuesday (Emily Morettini), who has thrown up her share of the drugs, and her annoying boyfriend JT (Andrew Vellenoweth), who it seems doesn't do drugs just to piss everyone off. When the three of them find themselves barricading themselves in inside Jessie's office, the two men soon get into a fight, which ends in JT trying to make an escape in a desperate attempt to prove he's the alpha male but ending up cannibal food. However, he has distracted the cannibals long enough to provide Jessie and Tuesday with an opportunity to escape - just Tuesday doesn't make it and ends up dead. In the end, Jessie too finds himself surrounded by cannibals, but he's given a choice, to either take the drug and become one of them, or shoot himself ...

An interesting film that does many things right - it features colouirful characters, an interesting story catalyst (the glow-in-the-dark drug), lots of boobs and gore, and it doesn't spend too much time with explaining everything away - but just isn't quite there yet to be a really good movie. Basically, Raving Maniacs' narrative structure is a tad off, it just takes too long to set everything up, spends maybe too much time with its supporting characters (as entertaining as some of them are), but fails to create any real tension or provide some shocks to keep the audience entertained.

That'S not to say the film is a disaster, there's plenty of fun to be had here actually, it just seems to fail to fully deliver.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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