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Deathgasm (Spoiler Free)
I picked this movie on a whim and I'm really glad I did, it was a fucking delight. This is a New Zealand horror movie playing absolute homage to metal fans and campy horror movie fans like Evil Dead. The movie centers on Brodie, a poor metalhead that's recently had to move in with his aunt and uncle who don't particularly like him very much. At the one record store in town, he meets the one other metalhead kid in town and they decide to start a metal band with the only two dudes at Brodie's school that he hangs out with.
The group go to retrieve something from an old metalhead and find the man dead, clutching some metal album. The boys take the album from the dead man and within in find pages of music. It's weird, and Brodie takes the Latin words that accompany the music to translate later. During all this, Brodie has also met Medina, a pretty girl at school that seems to have an interest in him. They meet outside a store, Brodie and band still in full corpse paint and she seems very interested in his band and the metal music he loves. He introduces her to metal and she (as if she's never heard it before in her life) has a brief moment of metal maven Valkyries, and is all in on the idea.
Of course things aren't great for Brodie. His new band buddy from the record store tries to steal the girl, Brodie gets beat up at school by his cousin and some other assholes and once he's translated the words on the mysterious song they found, he realizes playing it might finally give him the power and fortune he thinks he wants. He tells the band they should play it, which unbeknownst to them in the moment, opens up some kind of portal to tell.
The next day, people all over town seem to have grown sick, are started to falling apart, and eventually by nightfall, are seemingly possessed or demons or something. The group has 'band' together to take down the creatures to save each other and try to put the biggest demon back in it's box before it can ruin them all.
There's more at play here - some dude that looks like a Bond villain wants the pages for himself, hoping to take the power granted by the demon it summons. The first scene with him in the movie is quite literally the best comedic scene in a horror movie I've ever watched. EVER.
This movie is full of fun comedic bits, over the top gore, and dumb (but actually funny) sextual references. I mean this movie runs the very very thin line between parody and horror and manages to actually do it well. Sure it's not the most feminist representation in horror media I've ever seen, but I feel like Medina gets to be a real badass in this movie and she's only sexualized in a way that shows how she feels empowered (the Valkyries scene). I really really loved this movie. It's dumb and funny and makes EXCELLENT use of traditional special effects. If you're a fan of old Evil Dead movies, metal music or traditional special effects in horror movies, definitely watch this. (Though very serious warnings for blood and lots of it — which I feel is worth mentioning for people not already familiar with the Evil Dead movies.)
Anyway. It's great. I loved it.
The group go to retrieve something from an old metalhead and find the man dead, clutching some metal album. The boys take the album from the dead man and within in find pages of music. It's weird, and Brodie takes the Latin words that accompany the music to translate later. During all this, Brodie has also met Medina, a pretty girl at school that seems to have an interest in him. They meet outside a store, Brodie and band still in full corpse paint and she seems very interested in his band and the metal music he loves. He introduces her to metal and she (as if she's never heard it before in her life) has a brief moment of metal maven Valkyries, and is all in on the idea.
Of course things aren't great for Brodie. His new band buddy from the record store tries to steal the girl, Brodie gets beat up at school by his cousin and some other assholes and once he's translated the words on the mysterious song they found, he realizes playing it might finally give him the power and fortune he thinks he wants. He tells the band they should play it, which unbeknownst to them in the moment, opens up some kind of portal to tell.
The next day, people all over town seem to have grown sick, are started to falling apart, and eventually by nightfall, are seemingly possessed or demons or something. The group has 'band' together to take down the creatures to save each other and try to put the biggest demon back in it's box before it can ruin them all.
There's more at play here - some dude that looks like a Bond villain wants the pages for himself, hoping to take the power granted by the demon it summons. The first scene with him in the movie is quite literally the best comedic scene in a horror movie I've ever watched. EVER.
This movie is full of fun comedic bits, over the top gore, and dumb (but actually funny) sextual references. I mean this movie runs the very very thin line between parody and horror and manages to actually do it well. Sure it's not the most feminist representation in horror media I've ever seen, but I feel like Medina gets to be a real badass in this movie and she's only sexualized in a way that shows how she feels empowered (the Valkyries scene). I really really loved this movie. It's dumb and funny and makes EXCELLENT use of traditional special effects. If you're a fan of old Evil Dead movies, metal music or traditional special effects in horror movies, definitely watch this. (Though very serious warnings for blood and lots of it — which I feel is worth mentioning for people not already familiar with the Evil Dead movies.)
Anyway. It's great. I loved it.