Hey everybody! Jonathan Moody back again! And boy do I have a badddd one for you guys, one that was really rough. And I have a bit of a story to go with it. But we will get to that later. I had to pick a movie that I knew was going to be bad but I wasn’t quite sure how bad til we all watched it. What is it you ask… “Devon’s Ghost: The Legend Of The Bloody Boy”. How bad was it? Well just keep reading and you will find out, and check out the latest episode of Indie Film Cafe!. For this I had to get Paul Presenza and Joe Turek to join me: Joe joined us a lot for Season 6. That is awesome! And we always appreciate when he comes out to review with us.
Here’s a synopsis for it on IMDB:
When the Canyon High School reopens under the administration of Mr. and Mrs. Walker, the students recall Devon Anderson, a boy that killed his parents and vanished. On the first day of class, there is double homicide and Symphony, her boyfriend Craig and her friends Josh and Genesis believe that Bloody Devon is back, but the police believe in a copycat. The sensationalist reporter Miller also attributes the murder to Devon. But Devon is really back with his baseball golf and he wants to play killing people.
There was a few things they left out that I’m obviously going to talk about but before then here is my little story: back when I was a young lad I use to work at a video store and we would see movies that were coming out before they came out. I don’t mind screeners I just mean we would see posters of flicks and I saw the one for Devon’s Ghost and you had to color me intrigued.
First off it was a movie that looked cool on the poster. I mean it was a dude in a baseball uniform. So I assumed Devon was a young teenager who was murdered. Nope… he was a child who died. And he came back as a teenager. I get it… Jason did that too but it still confused the hell out of me. Devon’s powers or whatever you wanna call them or were too easy for him. He could disappear and reappear whenever he wanted to. He could touch you. He could almost do whatever he wanted.
We had some former Power Rangers in this flick… Karan Ashley (The Yellow Ranger) and Johnny Yong Bosch (The Black Ranger) were in it so the martial arts looked cool but made no sense. Why did these teenage kids all just knew Karate? Like they were black belts? It would have been cooler had Devon been a Karate Student who died and came back and he came after the karate kids who let him die. But they went with baseball. No lie Devon looked cool with the bat but then why all the Karate… Power Rangers, I know.
I usually like to torture Paul with movies about high school students but there was one character and her voice that drove Paul absolutely bonkers! And I loved every minute of it! If he can torture me with Neil Breen and Nick Zed it’s only fair I torture him with high school teen movies. This one didn’t even make much sense tho. Even Joe was rolling his eyes at the convoluted storyline.
Karan Ashley was one of the writers and Johnny Yong was one of the directors. I think what the biggest problem was too many people probably had too many ideas and they all gelled them together instead of figuring out a more cohesive story line that everyone could follow along without saying, “Hey… how did he get there” or “Wow how can she do that?” Which is a big problem in low budget film making. There is a DVD with commentary and I am pretty sure that will explain some of it. Problem is you should have this figured out wayyyy before.
Well it is time for the scores on the Stinkometer and this one is going to be easy because everyone agreed this was an – 8 is pretty high up on the Ladder of Stink. And makes it a total of 24 which Jesus Christ its tied with a lot of them… including: Alien VS Hunter, Baby Ghost, Jolly Roger, Mutant Vampire Zombies From The Hood, Robot VS The Aztec Mummy, Sextette, Snow Shark, The Forbidden Zone, Cemetery High, and Sinsister Urge. Phew! That is a big group of stinky movies to be associated with.
Well that’s it for this episode. I will be back to talk about the next one. All in all I am happy I own it and will probably listen to the commentary track at some point. As for the DVD Paul is going to be able to tell you how to get your hooves on it. Take it away Moo-Cow…
Well, its generally not a good sign that I had to go to MUBI to find a trailer, but there it is. In fact, the only place I cud find it streaming is MUBI, which stinks. As far as physical media goes, well there ain’t mooch out there but you can git yer hooves on a DVD copy from Amazon and…that’s about it. It WAS on Oldies.com, but it is OOP. If yer lucky you can find a copy on Ebay . Certainly, there ain’t no blu ray to speak of. As for schwag, there are moovie posters on Wayfair, Walmart, and Posterazzi.com, and that’s about it. There is a LiveJournal review HERE, and it pops up on Horrible Horror, The Movie Dumpster, and the No Such Thing as a Bad Movie podcast. Black Horror Movies.com also has a review. And if you wanna watch it for free it is at Dailymotion.com.
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