Father's Day (2011)
Directed by: Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy,
Steven Kostanski, and Conor Sweeney
Screenplay by: Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy,
Steven Kostanski, and Conor Sweeney
Genre: Action | Comedy | Horror
Running Time: 99 Minutes
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Viewed: Owned Blu-ray
Lock up your fathers.
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Comments: I don't think there was much of a doubt that I'd pick up Troma's latest, Father's Day, soon after it was released on Blu-ray. It's a nasty comedy/exploitation flick often compared to Hobo with a Shotgun (a film I loved) and comes in a sweet package (a 4-disc Blu-ray/DVD/soundtrack bonanza). I happened to have some gift card money for Amazon I received for my birthday, so I was all over this. Luckily, Father's Day delivers what I was expecting (for the most part).
The film revolves around a killer that goes around grotesquely raping, murdering, and often de-penising fathers. Yep. (There's actually an extremely heavy homoerotic undertone to the entire film.) The dialogue is pretty funny at times, but I did feel the premise was stretched a tad thin; a few parts could definitely have been shortened. And while it's not as good as Hobo with a Shotgun (even if it's quite a bit more nasty and over-the-top), the film is really well made and looks fantastic for a $10,000 budget.
I think there was some kind of issue between the filmmaking collective Astron-6 (all the guys listed above) and Troma, which saw Father's Day delayed for quite some time. Lloyd Kaufman even half-trashes them in the special features because they didn't want their behind-the-scenes documentary on the disc. I'm entirely too lazy to look up the whole story, but I've also read there's another cut out there somewhere. If that's the case and it gets released at some point, I'll definitely check that shit out.
The film revolves around a killer that goes around grotesquely raping, murdering, and often de-penising fathers. Yep. (There's actually an extremely heavy homoerotic undertone to the entire film.) The dialogue is pretty funny at times, but I did feel the premise was stretched a tad thin; a few parts could definitely have been shortened. And while it's not as good as Hobo with a Shotgun (even if it's quite a bit more nasty and over-the-top), the film is really well made and looks fantastic for a $10,000 budget.
I think there was some kind of issue between the filmmaking collective Astron-6 (all the guys listed above) and Troma, which saw Father's Day delayed for quite some time. Lloyd Kaufman even half-trashes them in the special features because they didn't want their behind-the-scenes documentary on the disc. I'm entirely too lazy to look up the whole story, but I've also read there's another cut out there somewhere. If that's the case and it gets released at some point, I'll definitely check that shit out.
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