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Hemet, or The Landlady Don't Drink Tea
USA 2024
produced by Tony Olmos, Brian Patrick Butler (executive) for Rosewood Five, Irontree Entertainment, Charybdis Pictures
directed by Tony Olmos
starring Kimberly Weinberger, Brian Patrick Butler, Aimee La Joie, Randy Davison, Merrick McCartha, Matthew Rhodes, Nick Young, Pierce Wallace, Jake Golden, Mia Gascon, Derrick Acosta, Mark Atkinson, Aleksander D'Avignon, Sandy Nissou, Michael J. Kim, Mark Allyn, Derrick Mangin, Alice Bé, Marie Cuvadar (voice), Tony Gorodeckas, Scott Schramp, Tanya Ruth Linsdau, Roger Guy English, Savannah Hayworth, Allie Pizzo
written by Brian Patrick Butler, music by Anton Elms, special makeup effects by John Aviles
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Rosie (Kimberly Weinberger) is subletting from tyrannical landlady Liz
(Brian Patrick Butler), and it is as hard for her as for all other tenants
to swallow Liz's abuse - and really, under normal circumstances she would
have long moved out, even if that meant living in her car for a few days.
But times aren't normal, as a bath salt zombie pandemic has taken hold of
the country, and thus spending more time that one absolutely must would
pretty much mean getting one's legs bitten off (or so the urban legend
goes). But then she somehow gets in the middle of a shoot-out that has
three of her co-tenants (Matthew Rhodes, Nick Young, Pierce Wallace)
killed and surprisingly inherits a small fortune, and now she's in a
position to buy the building from the actual owner. This doesn't go
unnoticed by Liz, who soon starts devising a plan to implicate her in the
triple murder together with her good friend, the local sheriff (Randy
Davison) ... Now as an objective synopsis, Hemet, or The
Landlady Don't Drink Tea might not sound like very much, just a crime
drama with some zombies tagged on, but actually, the film is pretty much
pure madness, a weird blend of over-the-top soap opera and zombie
horror that doesn't take itself all that seriously for even a moment
but never goes for just cheap jokes and shows a deliciously weird
predilection for dismemberment. And the directorial effort is subtle
enough to actually make this work without just grossing the audience out,
while the ensemble cast play it straight mostly - for maximum effect.
Great fun, actually.
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