Monday, August 26, 2019

Dreaming Purple Neon



Dreaming Purple Neon
2016
Director- Todd Sheets
Cast- Jeremy Edwards, Eli DeGeer, Millie Milan, Grant Conrad, Jack McCord, Nick Randol, Antwoine Steele, Ricky Farr, Jolene Loftin, Ana Rojas-Plumberg, Stacy Weible. Jodie Nelles Smith, Dilynn Fawn Harvey, Daniel Bell, Glen Moore
            
   In a genre where about half the movies have the words “devil” or “exorcism” in the title, you will never forget a title like Dreaming Purple Neon. Nor or you likely to forget this film. The title refers to a drug being pushed by a Satanic cult that is trying to summon the demon Abaddon, in this film presented as a demoness. Through arcane techniques everyone who uses the drug will be subject to the Demon Queen’s will, once she is summoned.
            
   Through a series of coincidences, a group of disparate individuals end up in a dentist's office; pair of drug dealers looking for their stolen stash ,a prodigal son returned to town trying to meet his lost love, and some poor schmucks that get caught up in the middle. Unfortunately for all involved, the basement of the building is not only the manufacturing center for the drug, but the meeting place of the cultists.
            
    The cult decides to use these interlopers as sacrifices in their rites and what commences is a trip through a house of horrors as they try to foil the Satanists and run for their lives. What we get to see is non-stop insane visuals with tons of gore; beheadings, dismemberments, cannibalism, a baby sacrifice, a demon woman bursting through the chest, full grown, from a victim, a torture machine turning a poor dudes rectum into macaroni and a generous portion of nudity. Good news for the ladies, the nudity is equal opportunity with lots of full frontal men (though let’s be honest, is anything less inspiring than a flaccid penis?).
            

   The film feels like a Tarantino homage that transitions to something akin to House of 1000 Corpses. The director seems much more adept at handling the horror elements though.
           
   This a low budget, probably sub-B, movie and you get what you’d expect; armature acting (though some of the performances are pretty convincing), awkward editing, cinematography that is sometimes distracting and other frequent reminders of its low budget status. But you also get things you’d never get from the studio system with its movies by committee. Low budget films often offer a purer vision and take chances that larger studios would never imagine. Check out Dreaming Purple Neon if you want an occasionally funny, frequently gory, and thoroughly original film.

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