It all starts rather harmlessly, with Diana (Jeannine Frumess) giving a mask to Tony (Matthew Ritacco) to return it to its original owner, her ex Stanley (Jacob Trussell), after she has been unable to get in touch with Stanley herself. 'Thing is, Tony finds himself unable to get in touch with Stanley as well, which worries him as Stanley has been his mentor who had turned his life around, introducing him to yoga. Tony interviews Diana some more and finds out Stanley has become addicted to some novel gas, and things went downhill from there, and she ultimately lseft him when she found out about his new girlfriend Cherry (Candy Fox). Hearing about this novel gas, Tony contacts his mobster friend Whiskers (Jack Wheeler), who sets him on a trail to find our everything he needs to know about that gas, a trail that forces him to kill many a man and woman, getting him in touch with his self before Stanley's intervention, when he was an enforcer for crime kingpin Bad Nana (Renee Mandel). But the things he finds out only trouble Tony more and more, as there's something deeply sinister going on that might not even have originated on this world ...

A film where you never know what to expect, it starts out as a drama about addiction, then veers off into gangster movie territory, with plenty of violence to go with it, and eventually entering sci-fi/horror territory, all peppered with its fair share of trippy scenes and even comedy. Now this isn't a concept to necessarily work, but it does work here as everybody seems to embrace the "anything goes" concept, and while the screenplay might be slightly on the insane side, it's also well-structured and doesn't lose sight of its objective. At the same time, a solid cast keeps things grounded enough to not lose the audience in the madness of it all, helping to make this a pretty cool multiple genre ride.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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