JUNKFILM

 I’ve made it a point in my theater-going experience to not do too much research before going to see a film.  Most trailers have always had a way of ruining films by giving away key elements, plot points and shining moments that I would have enjoyed if not for being brain washed a thousand times before by meandering teaser clips.  It’s a great day when I can watch a movie and not even have an idea of what the film is about…however, this does cause negative side effects as well.  Like, seeing a shitty film.

It’s not out of the usual for me to snag a movie out of a rental store or Netflix, just to try it out.  I hate feeling safe, knowing that I have seen that trailer before on TV and know what it is about.  I like the unknown, not knowing what I’m getting into; after all this is how I found some of my favorite films: Bomb The System, Cashback, and 2LDK.  But, as the forementioned aspect of the looming shitty film exists, there is always the chance of getting a real bomb of fecal-encrusted cinema.

I have been on a trying-to-find mission looking for the So-Bad-Its-Good films.  Like Beast Master 2 and Robot Jox, you sometimes find gems in the terrible.  Along comes my Netflix queue and many of the films I want are currently on “long wait” or even the cursed “Very Long Wait.”  I have two titles on the “Why the fuck are you even bothering” list.  So my next flick to be sent was Necroville.

Necroville  by no means is a good film.  There isn’t even the slightly hint of so-bad-its-good, it’s simply fuckin, pitiully, regurgitatingly bad.  While certain concepts have validity to a possible good story, they film makers, actors and the piss poor editor fuck it all up like its a season 3 of Heroes.

I struggled through this movie after the opening shot.  It was obviously shot on low end camera stock with low end actors (ie, friends of the film makers who weren’t busy that week)with low end camera work and even lower end editing.  In fact, I stressed my mind to even find the smallest thing good about the movie.

Well, I did.  The music is out-fucking-standing.  The group of people who did the original songs and score need to be doing bigger budget films (and possibly getting paid even).  The score harks back to what zombie films should have: eerie, ominous music, exhausting tones of doom while driving the music forward.  The original songs display the talent of musicians and the music supervisor who knows what songs should be in what scenes, they truly worked well.

The other decent thing that wasn’t complete dreck was the concept of a town, really calling itself Necroville, where monsters (ie, zombies, vampires, dog-people) lived and roamed freely.  No military intervention, no mass fear, no hauling up in the local mall.  The people went about their daily lives, even some trying to find jobs better than the video store.  It was a refreshing idea since all zombie films thrive on chaos and fear, this movie thrives on, aside from stale acting and a 6 year old make up artist, the evil being the norm.  It works well, but the rest of the movie fucks it all up before the concept can play itself out.

I can’t rant enough about the terrible acting.  I was in tears laughing until I realized that these people were really trying.  Then it was just tears of sadness as I delved in to my KFC sadness/pathetic bowl.

Take a look at the trailer, which is FAR FAR FUCKING better than the actual film…

So this brings me to my current question and subject liner….Who wants my copy of Necroville?  I don’t want it in this house or mingling with my other films, possibly infecting them.  Any takers?