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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