![]() That’s fortunate, since a lot of the content here pushes the envelope toward outright unpleasantness - particularly once poor Chip falls into the clutches of trailer-trash types who make even increasingly lunatic Liza seem reasonable by comparison. ![]() “Criminal Minds” star Gubler, who was also amusingly harassed as the object of horror-comedy hauntings in 2014 indie “Suburban Gothic,” provides the right gormless appeal to keep “Kill” reasonably light and likable. The night is still young when Chip flees with Violet still in the car trunk and Liza, who does not take this “relationship breakup” at all well, in lethal pursuit. They also have an unanticipated captive (Alisha Boe as Violet) whose fate Chip likewise worries about, particularly when their first getaway stop is the home of Liza’s consummately creepy brother Swayne (Sam Eidson), who looks like a serial-killer for very good reason. In short order they’ve left two dead bodies behind. Naturally, the plan does not go as Chip expects - in fact, Liza takes far too much pleasure in doling out the bodily harm she’d promised him they’d avoid. She also demands they take loaded weapons while claiming there will be no need for violence. He’s even reluctantly willing to go along when she insists they rob said landlord, whom she’s learned keeps $68,000 in cash at home in a safe. ![]() Nonetheless, Chip is smitten enough to put up with just about anything for her, including his smelly job with a septic-disposal company and her sexual services to their trailer-home landlord. Rated 12 in the best albums of 1983, and 997 of all time album. In fact, beautiful though she is, her personality is downright punishing, literally so when delivering blows in the heat of passion. Released 25 July 1983 on Megaforce (catalog no. Smith’s opening shot is of a fly stuck in honey - just as protagonist Chip (Mathew Gray Gubler) is hopelessly stuck on girlfriend Liza (AnnaLynne McCord), though it cannot be said that her primary quality is sweetness. But viewers and programmers with a taste for midnight-movie outrageousness will cotton to its mix of sleaze, quease and bad-taste absurdism.ĭP Neeham B. Not everyone will enjoy this slide down a narrative garbage chute lined with thorns. This particular variation on that theme is based on Bryan Smith’s novel, yet the sadistic song remains much the same. Katz’s 2013 “Cheap Thrills,” which he co-wrote - in that it’s a zesty black comedy whose nebbish hero gets subjected to a prolonged ordeal of painful misfortunes. Super Mario Brothers, White Boys, Theme Song. Stepping just slightly outside the horror terrain he’s inhabited since an early run of Troma gigs (as actor, writer and producer), Trent Haaga’s second directorial feature “68 Kill” is much like his first, 2011’s “Chop” - as well as E.L. Dont miss Matthew Gray Gublers captivating performance in the thrilling movie 68 Kill (2017).
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