Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody back again and this time to chat about the film, “Drop Dead Roses” starring Brian O’Halloran from Clerks fame. I had picked this movie because I’m a huge fan of Clerks and I had looked it up and it was on Tubi. I own the movie myself but sometimes it’s easier to do it on zoom with someone than it is to go in to the studio. So the person I wanted to do this with was Tina Krause. She had seen a stinker before so I figured this wasn’t a terrible movie for her to watch with Paul and I. Paul is always excited to have Tina. Join us on our latest episode of Indie Film Cafe!
So here’s the IMDB storyline for all of you:
Shawn and Jason are two regular guys who run an irregular business. You pay them, and they’ll deliver dead roses or slightly abused chocolates to your target, along with an appropriately punitive message.
Kind of a perfect black Valentine’s Day type of movie to watch. The movie was made on a budget of 1, 100,000 CAD… Canadian Dollars. Yes the film was shot in Toronto and was written and directed by Jessica Hudson. This was her future debut. However since then she has made some short films.
It stars Brian O’Halloran from Clerks and the indie film, “Vulgar” which we have reviewed for What The Fuck Fridays among many other films. Brian plays the lead character Shawn and does it pretty damn well. It also stars Eddie McGee who plays Jason. He’s been in films such as The Human Race, Confidence, and Road to Terzetto. Though I think the main draw to this movie is Diana Devlin who plays Kayla. She’s very sweet and engaging throughout the whole film. She was in Vulgar, Clerks 3, The Only Woman In the World, and more.
The film is pretty much set up like a lot of out of the place work comedies. So the big thing is one guy will be at the office and set up the deliveries and then the other will go out for deliveries. Deliveries entail going to someone’s house or place of business and giving them dead roses and a message. Most of the time the messengers themselves get punched or beat up. Then of course Shawn meets Kayla and falls instantly in love with her. However his job is to bring her the dead roses and read the message even though he really doesn’t want to. When the ex boyfriend of Kayla’s finds out he instead started dating Kayla things go a little crazy from there.
I’ve always liked that type of comedy. It’s dark humor and very offensive. A type of movie I just don’t think someone would make today. We live in a completely different world than we did in 2001 when it was made. Interestingly enough I remember Brian talking about this movie in 2002 when I met him at Kevin Smith’s film festival Vulgarthon. He talked about how much fun this movie was and how different from Clerks his character was. I was excited and when I got the DVD I was not let down.
When I picked this movie for Paul and Tina I thought at least Tina would get a kick out of it but I think she wasn’t as excited as Paul and I were for a movie that Brian was the lead in. After Clerks Brian got a lot of smaller roles so to see him be the lead got both of us stoked. He def deserves to be the lead in more movies. Especially romantic comedies like this. Though Paul did find a lot more flaws to it than I or even Tina did.
Well the scores are in…. And I gave it a 2 so I gave it the lowest score. Paul gave it a 6. And Tina gave it a 5. Paul was the one who had the most issues with the movie and the story itself. This gave it a Stink Total of 13, and a Stinky Average of 4.3: not too shabby. That puts it up on the Ladder of Stink next to Toad Warrior. I hope we get more 13s. That was a pretty good number.
Anyhoo that’s it for this episode. Join us for the next 2 that will be Paul’s episodes and I will be back for my next 2 coming up soon enough. If you’ve seen Drop Dead Roses let us know your thoughts. And Paul is going to tell you how you can get your hooves on it… take it away Moo Cow….
Moo everyone! So here is our trailereage. The moovie is playing on Prime. It used to be on Tubi, but last I looked it was not – maybe it will come back, I hope so. You can pick up the DVD at Wallyworld and of course Uncle Amazon. You can also find it via the re-sale market via Ebay. No word if the moovie ever comes out on Blu Ray, but if it does we will let you know! I’m afraid there is no Drop Dead Roses schwag out there, not even a digital poster, but who knows maybe that will change too.
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