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Scream Machine
USA 2015
produced by Walter Ruether (= Scarlet Fry), Paul C. Hemmes (executive) for Deadly Indie Entertainment
directed by Walter Ruether (= Scarlet Fry)
starring Lloyd Kaufman, Sandra E Williams, Paul C. Hemmes, David C. Hayes, Kim Wagner-Hemmes, Walter Ruether (= Scarlet Fry), Ramon Castillo, A.J. Nada, Dineta Williams-Trigg, Randy Robinson, Sam Meier, Tara Carlton, Stephen Kessen, Tracy Ellegard, Josiah Spargo, Gage A. Underhill, Tom Szczepanski, Brian Carr, Dean Nesland
written by Walter Ruether (= Scarlet Fry), Paul C. Hemmes, music by Kirk Mazzia, Howard Shaw, special effects makeup by Walter Ruether (= Scarlet Fry), visual effects by Paul C. Hemmes
Scarlet Fry
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After a short introduction by Lloyd Kaufman, it's off to past doomsday
when ebola has annihilated most of the earth's human population - but Dr
Scarlet Fry (Walter Ruether) has saved himself and a severed (yet still
alive) head (Paul C. Hemmes) ... to watch a quintet of movies:
- Sledgehammer: A baseball pitcher (Walter Ruether) throws
powerful enough to kill his best friend and catcher (Josiah Spargo)
when they try to impress some scouts. Years later, he has become a
successful and popular pitcher - when the past catches up with him ...
- Cannibal Pen-Pals: A henpecked husband (Randy Robinson) is
secretly gay, in love with Jeffrey Dahmer, and on a killing spree -
but wait until his wife finds out ...
- April Fools Party: Four drug addicts (Sandra E. Williams,
Gage A. Underhill, Sam Meier, Ramon Castillo) decides it would be a
good idea to play a trick on their dealer (Tracy Ellegard on April
Fool's Day ... but somehow their trick backfires ...
- Septic Shock: A hapless husband (Tom Szczepanski) is locked
inside a septic tank and left to die by his cheating wife (Kim
Wagner-Hemmes) and her lover (Dean Nesland), who also happens to be
his doctor. It's not as if he can escape the tank alive ... but he
sure as heck can have his revenge anyhow ...
- The Deadly Indie Drive-In: A young woman (Kim Wagner-Hemmes)
experiences a drive in date in hell ... and then the lead (Walter
Ruether) of the movie shown tells her to kill her companion (Paul C.
Hemmes) ...
Scream Machine is pretty much an anthology movie as you'd
imagine anthology movies should be: The five stories differ in tone and
approach but share wonderful twist endings, the framing story is properly
sarcastic, there are plenty of macabre to grotesque details throughout,
the film repeatedly goes over-the-top without ever tripping, The thing's
well-paced and doesn't linger on neither of its segments for too long, and
the whole thing has that wonderful indie, Devil-may-care attitude to it
that makes the horror genre so much fun. Now granted, Scream Machine
might pale in comparison to Citizen Kane, but then again, provided
you've got a fridge full of beer and some mates over looking for a fun
time, you'd be advised to choose the former over the latter ...
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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