Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody here back again! And this time it’s gonna be a bit shorter than normal, mainly because I really don’t want to talk about this but we do one of these every time soooo anyway here it goes! We recorded this episode a while back in November 2022 and then it got released in March 2023, and boy did it stir up a lot of controversy – which I will get in to a bit. I asked Paul my co-host and special guest Jason Cooke to come on. It was Jason’s first episode on our show and hopefully won’t be the last. We got more to get him in on. But this so far has been the only one for Indie Film Cafe he has done.
The movie in question is… Joel D. Wynkoop’s Lost Faith, which I got directly from Joel himself. Maybe he was suspecting a more glowing review or maybe he was not expecting some of the things we said because a lot of people love it to death. Hell, I enjoyed it for the campiness of it.
Here is a bit of a disclaimer…. We love bad movies. We love watching them. We love reviewing them. They are fun. The lower the budget, the even more fun. And when we review these movies we are generally talking about our love for them (whether they are good, bad, or ugly it doesn’t matter to us cause we had a blast doing it)… if a movie bores us or we just weren’t in to it we wouldn’t review it.
With that being said this movie was fun to me. I love it. I’m glad I own it. However it’s still not a great movie. Like, it has problems. It goes off the rail a lot. Like, there is NO purpose to some of the scenes except either for padding or for ridiculousness. And the ridiculousness is fine but some of the rest of the movie doesn’t hold up to that and so the film to me is kind of uneven. Which is normal for a Low Budget film. There are some really fun scenes and Joel shows off his karate skills like you wouldn’t believe!
However in the end we said what we said, and this is one of the first times on our actual podcast that the director felt differently than we did and was a little upset. All I can say is I will stand by my review because what I said and what others said were what we felt at the time. We didn’t even give it a 30 which is the highest stink rating you can give. I just want to once again clarify that when I say a movie is bad it means I probably enjoyed it for what it was. Whether people agree or disagree is none of my business and none of my concern. That’s all up to interpretation.
And the scores are in…. I gave it a 9; Paul gave it a 10; and Jason gave it a 9.5 bringing the stink total to 28.5, or a Stinky Average of 9.5. Which puts it up there with A LOT OF MOVIES… including: Alien Prophecy, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, Midget Zombie Takeover, Blood Predator, Hard Rock Zombies, and The Creeping Terror.
Well that’s it for me… even a little longer than I was planning to talk. If you wanna know what we are talking about Paul will put up the link to the episode. Speaking of Paul… the Moo Cow is gonna take over and show you guys where you can get this and maybe he’ll add his own thoughts on the whole show… take it away Paul…
Check out the SLAM-BANG TRAILER on Youtube! SLAM!! BANG!! This is the so-called HYPER trailer! And here is a message about the film from the man himself, Joel D. Wynkoop! And check out this tv cowmmercial spot for the flick!
Pick up the Vinegar Syndrom Blu Ray release, including the special slip cover release, HERE. The standard Blu Ray is also on Amazon. The DVD is tough to find these days, but it does pop up on Ebay from time to time. I wish I cud offer you some places for the poster, a tee shirt, a mug, or udder merch, but at this time there doesn’t seem to be anything beyond the Blu Ray – but if that changes we will update the page! We all need some extra Wyncoopage!
In the meantime, here is the Bad Movie review, and also So Bad Its Good. Here is the man himself talking moore in depth about his moovie, and the Bad Movie Night interview. This flick also appears on Schlocaholics, and on Grindbin! Joel has his own Youtube channel too, check it out!
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