2018 horror/comedy, dir. Brendan Steere, Greg Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski:
IMDb /
allmovie. After his parents
are killed, a priest travels to China, and finds he's gained the
ability to transform into a dinosaur. With a prostitute as his moral
guide, he sets out to fight for justice.
This film had its origins in a spoof trailer made by Steere in
2011. On one level, it's a bad film of the sort that was deliberately
made to be bad. But it rises above that, because it's doing an
excellent job of parodying the sort of low-budget action film that one
might have found in a video shop in the 1980s, including the way that
everywhere looks like the same forest near town (even if there's a
caption reading "China" at the bottom of the screen), and the
overlong, over-edited sex scene.
The overall plot isn't as strong as one might like, but this one holds
together well for me. Not sure how much fun it would be if you don't
have a history of going to the video shop and renting any old rubbish
with ninjas [sic] in it. Though I think my favourite part may be the
brief flashback to the Vietnam War.
I talk about this film further on
Ribbon of Memes.
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