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SCREAM FARM

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INDIETALK REVIEW:
Veteran indie horror auteur Jim O'Rear's latest, "Scream Farm" has something for everyone. What O'Rear has going for him is a thorough understanding of the genre and enough overall film sense to pull off a really cool hybrid of several genres that skillfully employs conventions from all of them.

With zombie films being a staple of the low-budget indie horror scene, the challenge to filmmakers working within the genre - should they even consider accepting the challenge - is to try something new, approach the familiar elements from a fresh perspective. So, O'Rear gets high marks here: any zombie film that begins with a drug deal gone bad and martial arts battle between mobsters has something going for it. This inciting incident involving a mutant batch of genetically engineered weed that goes missing sets in motion a fast placed plot that focuses on the gang of mobsters (led by O'Rear, in a very convincing performance) searching for the lost stash and winding up in the haunted house set up by a group of students as a fundraiser.

In different hands the film could have easily turned into a preachy "just say no" cautionary tale, but O'Rear balances the mood nicely, shifting between moments of stoner humor, mobster mayhem (a really well done bullet to the head shot), and slasher horror. While production values are generally decent, cinematography is a bit dodgy.

Nobody is going to confuse "Scream Farm" with high art --- but anyone who puts on a zombie film with the slightest notion that there might be some sophisticated sense of aesthetics or a rich narrative teeming over with subtext is probably pretty confused to begin with. No, "Scream Farm" is what it is, good, goofy, gory fun.

After two drug suppliers hide a bad stash of weed in a haunted house built by high school kids all hell breaks loose when one of the senior classmen decide to light up a doobie.

This is a great goretastic piece of midnight mayhem that is bound to become a cult classic. It has great one liners and it almost made me feel that this would be the result of what would happen if George Romero and John Waters collaborated together.

If you're looking for a fun movie to share with friends, you might want to snag Scream Farm, as it has all the elements to make a night gathering fun. Great gore, fun characters, kung-fu fighting vs. zombie attacks, and great one liners.

All I can say is SUCKED, The Mex Chick is Hott (the one w/Blond Hair), not the movie, Buyer Beware