I claimed to have never heard of this Bud Spencer Genie movie when my pal Justin suggested we watch it.
I soon realized that this was a film that had deeply haunted me as a child, due to the genie turning two henchmen into cockroaches that are later stepped on by their bosses.
I recalled nothing else.
Primo deranged cinema.
A savvier and smarter film than one might expect from the well-trodden regional slasher spoof genre. Particularly from one shot on a iPhone. Pours a bucket of cheap (but actually funny) laughs on pitch perfect pastiche, and elevates its comedy with some shrewdly calibrated performances.
If this was an authentic regional horror flick from the early 80s, I’d have bought the Vinegar Syndrome disc.
May genre festivals not overlook this…
Adrift in the postmodern malaise that is 1990s suburbia, two teenagers develop a connection through their mutual fandom for The Pink Opaque, a supernatural television series whose characters share a psychic link that gives them the power to dispel the monsters in their midst. When the older of the two friends (Jack Haven) one day vanishes in tandem with the show’s sudden cancellation, the abandoned misfit (Ian Foreman and then Justice Smith) is left to grapple with a creeping estrangement…
