Tag: comedy

Holy COW! Its a Mad Cow!!! :=8O

Well, its the 2010 South African wackadoodle horror flick called Mad Cow, which is the latest episode on the Indie Film Cafe‘s season 7 in which Moody, the MooCow, and long-suffering Just Jenn had to sit through and chew the cud on – check it out and see if any cow pies got milked!
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Soooo, it appears that a mad scientist (is there any udder kind?) creates a half-man, half -cow creature, you know, as you do, which then goes on a kill-crazy rampage with a chainsaw in a hunting lodge in the South African bush. Welllll, creates an extra in a silly cow mascot suit with a chainsaw. Same thingy.
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So Troma, always the mark of quality low budget madness, brought this over to the US, and thank so much goodness for that because Mad Cow is just a wacky, silly romp that just has to make you smile watching a murderous kill-crazy cow wackin’ all the humans, even when the jokes are obvious and stilted – and ye gods, can Tanya van Graan (Charlize, the vegetarian waitress) get an sexier? She got the whole herd’s fuzzy ol’ tails a-waggin’ whenever she appeared on screen – and she got voted FHM’s Sexiest Woman in 2007 in South Africa! I mean, RIGHT??

Well, according to the IMDB, the moovie came about when:
“UK writer/director Michael Wright (Dark Side, Boulevard Noir) and South African producer/director Michael J. Rix (Tengers, The Game of My Life) struck the deal with producers Jason Rogan and Doug Marschke to make the one of a kind horror/comedy and bring it back to Cannes 2010 under the banner Funny How Films. ‘We loved the Mad Cow concept and knew we wanted to do this film. Mad cow is the perfect film for Cannes because, in addition to being wildly entertaining, it reminds us all that underneath the hilariously funny lies something perverted and deranged,’ said Rogan in an interview. The film was made in less than a year and had its world premiere at Cannes on May 17, 2010.”

Supposedly, Michael Wright, who also wrote the screenplay, cowposed the first draft in an actual barn, so as to reflect the point of view of a cow more accurately. Again, as you do. Well, if yer fan of Scary Movie, Naked Gun, Shaun of the Dead, or those kinds of over the top, none-too-subtle comedies, with a bit of ridiculous horror on the side, then this just might be yer slab of beef! Craig Brown plays Daisy the crazed cow creature, Angus Douglas plays Harry Balls (note: this is a hint on the kind of moovie we’re talkin’ about there…), and Greg Viljoen plays Vince Chopper – but if yer like the MooCow, all eyes are on lovely Tanya van Graan, at least when Daisy’s not on screen… ;=8)

Well the votes are in, and it looks like this flick isn’t too much of a cow flop! Just Jenn and Paul the MooCow gave out 6’s, while Moody was just not very amoosed by the whole thing, and went with an 8.5, giving Mad Cow a total Stink Score of 22.5, that’s a Stinky Average of 7.5! On the Ladder of Stink this moovie ranks with the likes of Crater Lake Monster, Won Ton Ton, MonsTURD, Attack of the Killer Chickens, and Cornman – all MooCow suggested moovies, by the way; what can I say, we has the touch… ;=8)

Check out the trailer HERE. You can watch if for freebies on Youtube and on Tubi. Its also streaming at Troma NOW, which we recommend to toss Uncle Lloyd a few bucks to keep the Troma flag flying! You can buy the DVD at WallyWorld Troma, and Amazon, at re-sale at EBAY and DVRs at MVD and Dread Pirate. There is no blu ray as of yet, but we can live in hope. Grab the digital poster at Cinematerial.com , IMPAwards, and SciFiMovies.com, where you can get both of them! Also there is the movie’s own website made by the producers where you can download production stills. Its not the moovie, but TeePublic has this adorable mad cow tee shirt that you just has to have! There are reviews of the film at Film Blitz, HorrorNews.com, and Horror Society.

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.