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Weirdsville

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If you're looking for the next great independent movie that will make you think and change the way you look at the world... keep looking. But if you want to laugh yourself silly while scratching your head at the insanity at the same time, then this is the movie for you. Weirdsville is by the Director of Empire RecordsEmpire Records (Remix! Special Fan Edition), Allan Moyle and it has Scott Speedman as one of the stars (Michael from UnderworldUnderworld (Widescreen Special Edition)). It is about a few druggy friends who owe a local dealer way too much money, and they have no way to pay him back. While they're trying to figure out how to stay alive, one of them over doses and dies. The guys decide to bury her body and are discovered by Satanists... this leads to a high speed chase, an armed robbery, a group of little people who are into Medieval Recreation Battles and kicking Mooney butt and all other kinds of insanity.

Allan Moyle has managed to again deliver a great movie about little to nothing (like Empire Records) that leaves you feeling entertained. The sequences that are interspersed throughout the film that show events from the characters point of view that have just used drugs are nothing short of brilliant. The visuals are amazing. This movie does not really glamorize drug use but shows how twisted it really is. However, they juxtapose this view against the greater picture of how twisted the world at large is.

If you liked Gramma's Boy, Empire Records, Clerks, or if you just want a good laugh then grab this movie and enjoy.

Highly Recommended.

Actually, I wasn't going to review this film for a couple reasons. One was that it was pretty obscure and the other was that I really had a hard time deciding if I really liked it or not, but then I realized that this blonde in WEIRDSVILLE was Taryn Manning, who was also in two films that I blasted here at AMAZON.COM. Well, fair is fair and I am forgiving of THE CULT and THE BREED. While Taryn isn't the main reason I liked this film, I did think she did a good job, even though she spent a good part of the movie as a corpse. The heroes of this movie were Wes Bentley and Scott Speedman. They were in trouble with a loan shark but also had the problem of disposing of the aforementioned corpse and these two brilliant fellas decide to bury her at a drive in theater. For a couple losers already near the bottom, things go downhill pretty fast but in a glorious ending, things all work out. I thought they did okay, but in my opinion, the film was stolen by Maggie Castle, the girl in the Satanist cult and by Greg Bryk, who was terrific as the leader of the satan worshipers. I don't think I've ever seen a less menacing group of devil worshipers in a movie, but at least his prayers were answered in the end. I guess. I give this one 3 stars. My expectations weren't too high for WEIRDSVILLE and it was pretty much what I expected. Funny for the most part but not just downright hilarious. My advice here is give this one a chance, maybe rent it and you might want to buy it. Shoot, you might even become a Taryn Manning fan, but if you do avoid THE CULT and THE BREED. now I'm going to watch banshee staring (who else) Taryn Manning.

The movie starts out letting us know 2 guys are going to break into a home, then it goes into a flashback to one week earlier. These two men, Dexter and Royce (Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley) owe $1700 to a drug dealer (Raoul Bhaneja), but can't pay. Rather than getting their thumbs broken, they agree to sell drugs for him. Bently's girlfriend is also a $50 escort, but not a hooker. She has an idea. She knows a rich guy who is sick and out of town. His house will be empty for a week, and she knows the combination to his safe. They simply go in and take the money and pay off the drug dealer.

Bam! Next scene, the girl (Taryn Manning) is on the floor dead. She OD by taking all the dope the guys were supposed to sell. At this point I am hooked on the movie. Kudos. Now I am wondering why her picture is on the cover? Is this another Steven Seagal in "Executive Decision?" They opt to bury the dead hooker in the basement of a building (drive-in movie) they were formally employed. While they are digging a hole in the dirt basement floor, a group of Satanists, including their former employer(Matt Frewer), is performing a human sacrifice upstairs. Time to hit the pause button, take another hit, and think about what is happening and where this is going.

Okay after a few mispronounced "ave satanas" chants, some spilled blood and our dead hooker is alive and in a quick cat fight with a girl (Maggie Castle) in a plaid "school girl" skirt.

Not being the brightest bulbs in the pack they opt to rob the deserted house only to find it is not only deserted, but they forgot to bring the paper with the combination on it. At one point our duo is held captive by a midget mall cop (Jordan Prentice who was Howard T. Duck). I think you get the idea. Cult movie.

MF, F-bomb, adult themes, a little bit of drug use (just every other scene), no nudity, Canadian.

I've watched this film 5 times since I got it! You just gotta love a bunch of infighting satanists and druggies chasing each other around a small town in Ontario Canada in the snow. Great dialog, actors and story line. It starts out a little slow but then it quickly starts to surprise you! Favorite movie I've seen this year! Plus a cameo by dude who played Max Hedrom.

I'm always interested to see what Wes Bentley (an actor who basically disappeared after hitting it big with "American Beauty") is up to, and I was particularly intrigued by the idea of him doing a comedy. I'm used to just about every film, even tiny ones, opening somewhere in New York. When "Weirdsville" was released, I looked it up online and found that it was playing in one theater... in Kansas. That's truly stretching the idea of a theatrical release.

"Weirdsville" is a dark comedy about two drug addicts (as much heroin addicts as potheads) by the names of Royce (Wes Bentley) and Dexter (Scott Speedman). They owe money to a drug dealer, and when they cannot pay him back he employs them as dealers. But Royce's girlfriend accidentally ODs on the dealer's drugs and they decide to bury her at an abandoned drive-in, where Royce once worked. Unfortunately for them, Royce's old boss is there as well performing a Satanic sacrifice. The Satanists believe they've brought Royce's girlfriend, Matilda (Taryn Manning), back to life and now need her to complete their sacrifice.

Royce and Dex also have their eyes on a safe locked away in someone's house. And there's a gang of little people running around who do medieval reenactments. Yeah, it's one of THOSE movies.

One long night. Lots of misadventures and odd connections between the characters and a plot that closes in on itself.

I found the most entertaining part of this movie to be Bentley, who seems very comfortable playing a scatter-brained druggie who is as dumb as he is screechy. There are times where he infuses a stoner's sense of disregard that lifts the movie into something very funny.

Allan Moyle manages to put together sequences that are visual feasts. But, oddly, he doesn't work the same magic when filming the simple scenes, and I often found that the comic timing in the film was off. There were clearly some funny moments in Willem Wennekers' screenplay that Moyle didn't understand or couldn't pull off. It leads to a bit of awkwardness.

Moyle assembles a fine cast here. I loved Greg Bryk's performance as the head Satanist as a put-upon priss. Bryk seemed to get the tone of the material just right -- as did Bentley -- though you can't say that of everyone involved.

In the end, "Weirdsville" is more amusing than ever really sustainably funny. The actors do a good job, but it felt like it could have used a little more to it.

But I would recommend seeing it. Especially if you like watching drug addicts too stupid to be scared bounce from one crazy catastrophe to the next.

The synopsis, great blurb, was far more clever than this movie will ever be.

Avoid drugs, which unlike this movie, are addictive.

2 BUNS DOWN

Length:: 0:22 Mins

one of the funniest armour wearing midget movies I've ever seen. The quality and turn around for the disc wasn't bad either

it's hard to keep track of who is who, every scene is like is this that person from before or is that a different person and half the dialogue is unintelligibly mumbled and there's no subtitles. From the director of Pump Up The Volume and Empire Records? Seriously? I'm going to have to assume he took the gig out of spite against such a poor script being greenlit and had a great laugh elaborately making everything about the movie as awful and incomprehensible as possible.

Length:: 0:26 Mins