The year is 1997. In a post-apocalyptic world where water is king; an orphaned kid named The Kid spends his days riding his BMX bike and scavenging the edges of the wasteland searching for anything he can use to trade to a local bartender for his favorite comic book, Turbo Rider. You see, Turbo Rider is a superhero, who does super things. The comic causes The Kid's imagination to run wild, and he dreams of becoming a superhero. One day, while roaming the dirt roads, he meets a charming young lady named Apple. The next day, he accidentally finds a Super Power Glove that turns him into a bootleg version of Turbo Rider. Along with a cowboy arm-wrestling champion named…

I don't care if it's five in the morning currently where I am. I don't care if I should be sleeping. I don't care if this isn't helping my insomnia in the slightest. I just got done watching "Turbo Kid", and I need to talk about it.....

2015 was kinda like the year of nostalgia. We had a ton of movies from franchise past that wanted to remind you of things you liked about the other movies, but failed to do anything other than that (I'm looking at you "Jurassic World", and though "The Force Awakens" did that as well, but still had enough refreshing aspects to keep it from feeling stale (For me at least) ).

We had some…

There have been many films of late that try to capture the vibe of days gone by, of iconic cinematic eras and in doing so pay tribute to them. There haven't been any that have done this as successfully as Turbo Kid.

A common pitfall is losing yourself in your tribute and going so far overboard that you're almost overindulging in stylistic mannerisms. Trying too hard will only make you come across as desperate. The thing that Turbo Kid does so well (and this is the main reason for me giving it full marks) is being genuine. This is a genuine labour of love. An attempt to not make a tribute to the glorious 80s but to actually make a…

Frightfest 2015 Film # 2

Now we are talking! So much fun, a big, brash ode to the 80's that's massively entertaining and had the Frightfest crowd eating out the palm of it's hand. Originally intended as a short for one of The ABC's of death it's obvious from the get go that this film is made with a shit ton of love (as well as copious amounts of blood).
Set in a post apocalyptic 1997 we meet our young hero The Kid (Munro Chambers), a loner who has lost both his parents he's a scavenger who hunt's The Wastelands for weapons and anything he could sell for food and water which is controlled by Michael Ironside's big bad Zeus.…

It's 1997 in a post apocalyptic wasteland where The Kid (Munro Chambers) is scavenging for anything useful to survive or peak his interest such as Turbo Rider comics. He ends up meeting a girl his age named Apple (Laurence Leboeuf) who becomes a useful ally when he angers Zeus (Michael Ironside) who is capturing people and forcing them to fight to the death in an empty swimming pool before harvesting their remains into drinking water. There's no way The Kid and Apple could stop him on their own, but when he accidentally stumbles on the remains of a Turbo Rider and his weapon he may have just discovered what he needs to even out the battle.

Turbo Kid shows its…