Chillerama
2011 Directed by Adam Green, Joe Lynch …
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Drive in, freak out. The ultimate midnight movie.
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, Deathecation, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.
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Chillerama is an anthology comedy-horror film with an emphasis firmly on the comedy. Part loving homage of the drive-in B-movie and part complete piss take, it is a film that keeps its tongue firmly in cheek throughout. With the closure of a local drive-in theatre the owner puts on a special marathon of long lost and forgotten horror movies for his faithful patrons. Each individual film, along with the framing story, is directed by a different filmmaker from Adam Green to Tim Sullivan to name but two, and is always the way with portmanteau movies some stories are more successful than others.
This anthology film tackles everything from the ‘60s teen musical, monster movie and Nazisploitation and as wildly different…
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Seeing as I love a good anthology horror film and reflecting on what a rarity modern portmanteau movies are I was gutted to miss out on this at last year's FrightFest. Having now seen CHILLERAMA I realise my folly in thinking this might have been worth missing the last train home for and my condolences for those that did brave the twilight screening. This just might be my biggest disappointment of the entire festival.
Things get off to a rather spirited start with a suitably grim title sequence but any gothic mood is almost immediately undone by a painfully laughless and puerile opening scene shot in lifeless black and white photography. This soon skews into a colorised framing story set…
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Ooo, this is just bad, and not in a fun way. Its like a bunch of kids wanted to make a parody of cheesy 50 flicks and are still virgins. The sex obsessed jokes are pretty bad. For instance, a guy gets bitten on the penis by a zombie and then make other zombies who want sex rather than brains.
Then you got a guy who makes godzilla size sperm. Just bad. The reviews say how refreshing it is and fun, but they must have been desperate for something new to like this. Just bad.
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The poster is the best part of the movie.
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Was für ein grandios lustiger Film! Nichts vorher drüber lesen, seht ihn euch einfach an. Wer auch nur das geringste für nicht ganz politisch korrekten Humor, Horror- oder B-Movies übrig hat, wird ihn garantiert LIEBEN!
Ich glaube bei keinem anderen Film gab es so viel Szenenapplaus und so viele flüchtende Besucher beim fantasy Filmfest 2011 ;). Dabei steckt ganz offensichtlich viel Liebe und vor allem Spaß dahinter, den man allen Beteiligten anmerkt. In den durch eine lose Hintergrundgeschichte verbundenen Episoden wird mit B-Movie Klischees um sich geworfen, dass es eine wahre Freude ist. Man weiß nie, was einen als nächstes erwartet. -
This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This is a really hard movie to review. It consists of three 30 minute exploitation short films held together by a framing story about a drive in theatre.
While the shorts are always on the funny on memorable side they are all way too long. It's the kind of ideas that would work better as a mock trailer. For example, the first short is called "Wadzilla" and deals with a guy jerking off and his sperm getting bigger and bigger and starting to terrorize the city. At one point they call in "General Bukakke" so he can lead them into "Mission Money Shot". That's the kind of humour we're dealing with here and they keep it up for half an…
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Ooo, this is just bad, and not in a fun way. Its like a bunch of kids wanted to make a parody of cheesy 50 flicks and are still virgins. The sex obsessed jokes are pretty bad. For instance, a guy gets bitten on the penis by a zombie and then make other zombies who want sex rather than brains.
Then you got a guy who makes godzilla size sperm. Just bad. The reviews say how refreshing it is and fun, but they must have been desperate for something new to like this. Just bad.
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I like Trash and I like Troma - but this movie tries to be like a Troma movie wothout reaching its "quality".
The episodes are totally crappy, tasteless, brainless and unfunny sequences.
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Probably even worse for those who would dare a repeat viewing.
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Ich hab mich sehr lange auf chillerama gefreut und habe ihn gerade gesehen.
Das Ding besteht aus 3 Kurzfilmen und einer kleinen "hauptstory".
Die 2. Geschichte war auf jeden Fall die schlechteste.
Die Witze waren alle scheisse aber es gab ganz lustige Gore-Szenen und die Musical-Einlagen sind so schlecht ,dass man wieder drüber lachen kann.
Der 3. Film war ganz lustig hatte aber etwas mehr erwartet ,Hitler war einfach zu "unhitlerhaft".
Film 1 gefiel mir am besten.
Wer kommt eigentlich auf sowas?
Kurz vor Schluss wird noch ein Film gezeigt der vllt 3 Minuten geht sehr geschmacklos und kindisch trotzdem musste ich lachen... -
I don’t even know where to start when talking about this film it was just that bizarre. Between the killer sperm and the gay high school musical segment it really wasn’t a film to be taken seriously at all. Fun for the most part but not really brilliant or something I’d watch again
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This movie tries so hard to be Trash and a tribute to Horror movies it fails almost completely. Some wannabe directors and amateurs have made this piece of crap which is extremely unfunny. Give me some good Trash to watch!! Please!!
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Chillerama is an anthology comedy-horror film with an emphasis firmly on the comedy. Part loving homage of the drive-in B-movie and part complete piss take, it is a film that keeps its tongue firmly in cheek throughout. With the closure of a local drive-in theatre the owner puts on a special marathon of long lost and forgotten horror movies for his faithful patrons. Each individual film, along with the framing story, is directed by a different filmmaker from Adam Green to Tim Sullivan to name but two, and is always the way with portmanteau movies some stories are more successful than others.
This anthology film tackles everything from the ‘60s teen musical, monster movie and Nazisploitation and as wildly different…
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Well made schlock that is unapologetically juvenile in its influences and style. At times almost too tongue-in-cheek, but gets back on track because of a genuine love for fine trash.
Taking them one at a time:
Wadzilla: Takes its premise as far you could imagine. Tasteless but a fairly spot on take on late 50's Japanese monster movie transplants.
I Was a Teenage Werebear: Subversive (for this bunch) take on Frankie and Anette beach musicals, only with gay werewolves. The best material comes from the more subtle digs at Twilight.
The Diary of Anne Frankenstein: Never gets funnier than the title. Kane Hodder still continues to show himself to be our slasher generation's Karloff imbuing the monster with pathos (until…