Fright FlickFright Flick (2011)
Directed by Israel Luna
[screener provided by Breaking Glass Pictures]
Ho Hum. It's another slasher flick with a movie in a movie gimmick. Right off the tranny heels of Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives, Israel Luna brings us another homage of sorts with Fright Flick. This slasher flick seems to be Luna's take on those campy and cartooney 80s slasher flicks of old.
I'm all for keeping it old school and seeing a few blood splattered walls and neck trauma but Fright Flick is so generic and assembly line produced I'd rather watch a rom com.
The movie relishes in playing out a horror movie within a horror movie set. Cast of characters include our gay as hell director and make up artist, greedy producer, eager script writers, line producers, PAs and big breasted actresses. Soon a mysterious killer is slicing and dicing our cast and crew until our back to scenes guy gathers the clues to find out who's been naughty.
I'm not sure where Luna wanted to go here (he wrote and directed). With Trannies, the exploitation gimmick with a twist made an ordinary grindhouse flick feel new and inventive. But here, the horror movie production that's real twist has been used in so many ways, you might as well just go 360 and make the horror movie the actual horror movie within the film.
Fright Flick is campy and corny and jokey...like Jokey Smurf. Sure the explosion in a gift gag is funny the first 3 times but after a while you want Gargamel to eat that motherfucker. We carefully encounter a reveal which can be easily figured out using your standard Sherlock Holmes detective manual.
The gore is pretty standard as is the nudity. I mean big boobies on girls that look like 6's at best kinda sucks. The ending goes as far as copying shot for shot the ending of an infamous slasher flick of the 80s. With all this, the movie falls flat like the survivor girl's chest.Luna has the talent to push the edges of indie horror in a refreshing way but Fright Flick is like his Mallrats. Sometimes your going to make a movie that just plain sucks. It's good to get it out of the way now.
Gore-ipedia
Slice and Dice
Nude-ipedia
Boobies all around by at best 6's
WTF moment
That shot for shot ending from that movie with the psycho mom
The Jaded Viewer's Final Prognosis
Fright Flick will be released on DVD via Breaking Glass Pictures from their Vicious Circle Films label. It's now available on DVD as of Jan 25th.
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Bummer you didn't dig this one. For all the reasons you didn't like it, I really enjoyed it. I can't get enough of 80's styled, funny and witty dialogue'd slasher films. Films like The Hills Run Red and Laid to Rest fail because they attempt to do something different and do so miserably. The slasher formula is pretty tried and true and Luna nailed it here. I know this style has been like beating a dead horse but you need fun and mindless films like this from time to time. Nothing inventive for sure but just plain, good ol' fashion, fun.
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