Purgatory Road, one of the most anticipated films of the year, will be releasing on February 12, 2019 on Blu-ray and DVD. Also on Digital: Amazon, iTunes and Google Play.
Both movies are hard to watch, to be completely honest because they both show some of the most vile gore in cinema, but they’re both very entertaining and actually well written and acted.
My love for Todd Sheets is definitely not the quality or even the originality but the honest passion on an uphill battle with no money or people that have ever taken an acting course in their life. True pure passion fueled films.
Attempting to make the ultimate grindhouse flick and homaging his own previous om nom nom slimey zombie filled movie past.
The problem is this movie goes on too damn long and the elements it takes it time on are often the least effective.
Two absolutely ridiculous, hilarious and kind of awesome gangsters kill a man who failed to collect on a drug deal for them start off this film. Making it feel like a 70s crime thriller blaxploitation. They scare a witness who they have to track down. The witness called Cat steals some of the gangster drugs to give to the cops as evidence, a drug called Purple Neon. Foolishly she stops to meet a friend on the way to the cops (always a rookie mistake) The gangsters Ray Ray and Tyrone track her down to a dentist’s office where we meet several other supporting cast members. Having all the mix match of random characters in a lockdown situation.
Just before this we meet our romantic lead, an extremely rambling main male lead type of character who sadly is the worst actor of the cast. Classic story element of a guy called Dallas who is a young man returning to his home town to visit the love of his youth after he had left the small town due to a random embarrassment or controversy that is rarely important to the plot. He looks like a cross between Onyx the fortuitous and Eyesore regular Liam Pendergast. His side story is the love story to the film which is something you completely forget about yet very obviously you know it will be the final story arc of this movie, cause that just how these stories go.
These stories build arcs with the witness, the gangsters, the hometown boy and his lover and random friend as well as the other random people they meet as a hostage issue happens in the dentist office. Say that in one breathe. Anyways this grows and grows making you forget this is supposed to be an insane horror movie that will get super fucking weird. It takes a long time to get there but when it does it turns into Dr Who meets an Andreas Schnaas Violent Shit movie. They discover a creepy dude rents the basement of the dentist office and his produces the drugs that the gangsters sell. The drug called Purple Neon. However it gets fucking weird when they discover the drug is actually a protoplasm made from victims of an insane demonic cult that are being held hostage in the basement. Making people into demonically possessed razor sharp fanged zombies.
The bizarre mismash of characters get locked in the catacombs of the basement as they run for their lives from cult monsters and mutants. Lots of weird torture nudity but basically displayed out like a carnival sideshow so we can see it as the characters run by.
A tag line on the dvd says Think you’ve seen it all? Think again! Well I will be honest a lot of this I have seen before. But it does end with them accidentally freeing a world destroying goddess in a ending bit of chaos you won’t see coming even after my warning right now. But the part that sticks out the most is like every bad ass b movie horror, you need that one original stand out kill.
My favorite of the two gangsters (SPOILER) is killed in a bizarre demon torture machine that is reminiscent to the torture device that the devil makes Homer Simpson eat donuts forever. Yeah you remember that bit. But instead of being chained down and having donuts drilled into your mouth the gangster is facing the other way and a drill is destroying his genitals into oblivion. The clincher of that scene is when the other characters of the movie run into that run and witness this happening but don’t really react to it as if it’s not that big a deal on comparison to everything else. I mean granted they were running for their lives and they had seen some shit already but still there is a dead man strapped to a table as a machine continues to drill into his balls and he is already dead. Damn son!
Man actors shared in this as well as Todd Sheets other projects like Bone Hill Road and the forth coming Clownado. Even some elements that tease it to be an extended Todd Sheets cinematic universe .. DUN DUN DUN!
Remember when From Dusk Till Dawn started out as a dark crime thriller and you started to forget it was a madhouse demon filled horror show and when it finally turned into that it went insane and blew your mind? Well Dreaming Purple Neon is not that… buuuuut it kinda is. It feels like From Dusk Till Dawn crossed with a high school play and all the kids in the cast are adults and high as shit.
So yeah I give it a big purple thumb up! But I think it would have been better less sober.
Bill Oberst Jr., Lori Jo Hendrix, Peter Gonzales Falcon,
Manuel Domínguez
SYNOPSIS
An ex-soldier with a criminal past takes refuge in
the woods. A demonic figure seeks the seed of killers and the blood of the damned to feed his
mandrake garden. DIS is an infernal descent into the root of the mandrake legend and a man who
wanders too close to that legend and the unnamable terror behind it. What you sow you will reap.
Bonus features include: Still gallery, Interview with Bill Oberst Jr., Introduction by director Adrian
Corona, Behind the scenes, Trailers
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