Some people collect stamps and save pussy cats. These guys pummel and preach and do it for fun and to save souls. You have to love their commitment. Worth viewing by all. Rockport Texas is a wealthy suburb. Some say it is the Beverly Hills of Texas. It is the last place you would expect the Christian Wrestling Federation to be based. But it is. These are not hicks from the sticks. These guys are intelligent, many are educated and above all they are committed to traveling 40 or 50 times a year to towns all over the Southwest and Northeast. To put on a wresting exhibition and then preach the Gospel to young people and their folks. While this may seem curious to some, it is none the less a commitment that has stood trials and tribulations for over 15 years. It is hard not to watch this compelling and well edited documentary by first time film makers.
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All American Zombie Drugs
(2010)
If Cheech and Chong had made a horror movie, this would have been it.
12 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
If Cheech and Chong had made a horror movie, this would have been it. AAZD is a great film to have a film watching party for in your home. Even though the zombies don't show up till half way into the story, this is social commentary comparable to George Romero's Night Of The Living Dead. It is great entertainment and yet when it is over, you want to go down to the local coffee shop and dissect it. While funny and thought provoking, AAZD is a true horror movie in the sense that it focuses its lens on us, like Joseph Conrad did in Heart of Darkness.
The acting is quite good and the writing is very good. The production values hold together well and it looks professionally made in an film festival independent way. There is a lot of drug use in the film, some sex scenes that work well and don't feel gratuitous and terrific makeup work for the modern-day drug addled zombies. It is a Hard-R,so you might not want to have your 10-year-old watching it. Thriller this is not. These are the zombies of post-financial-crises Middle America. It has a lot to say about capitalist values and there is a lot of subtext about the horrors of being a working class hero. AAZD is a horror film that will stay with you long after the movie ends. A water-cooler classic. See it....if you dare.
The acting is quite good and the writing is very good. The production values hold together well and it looks professionally made in an film festival independent way. There is a lot of drug use in the film, some sex scenes that work well and don't feel gratuitous and terrific makeup work for the modern-day drug addled zombies. It is a Hard-R,so you might not want to have your 10-year-old watching it. Thriller this is not. These are the zombies of post-financial-crises Middle America. It has a lot to say about capitalist values and there is a lot of subtext about the horrors of being a working class hero. AAZD is a horror film that will stay with you long after the movie ends. A water-cooler classic. See it....if you dare.
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