Weirdsville

Weirdsville (2007): Here is another off beat movie about some underachieving stoners in debt to an unfriendly thug who likes to break knees and remove thumbs for non-payment. Their efforts to heist the money from a crooked politician go awry resulting in the apparent fatal overdose of the squeeze component of the group. While attempting to hide her body in the basement of the snack bar at the local drive in (it is wintertime) a group of Satan worshipers comes to the same spot for their traditional human sacrifice. The meeting of the two groups causes the worshippers to want to off the stoners and when the gal stoner revives during the satanic ritual, the darksiders want her too. The rest of the movie is essentially a chase sequence which is fairly well done. Neither the stoners nor the group from the dark side are particularly sharp in the thinking department and when you throw in a group of little people armed like a bunch of medieval re-enactors and who are very sensitive to cracks about their height, things get pretty out of hand and hilarious. The only problem with the movie is that while it is pretty much a comedy, there are a few seriously done murders that seem just a bit out of place for the overall texture of the film. In any event, you can have an enjoyable chuckle or two if you like movies about underachievers with a bent toward the use of controlled substances. The movie is rated R for: throat slitting, grass smoking, bong bubbling, safe falling, mean midgets, and for the massive ineptitude of the irreligious religious group depicted.

Stuck

Stuck (2007): Based on a true incident where a woman hit a homeless man and drove him home when he became wedged in her windshield, director Stuart Gordon (of Re-Animator fame) has made another near classic suspenseful horror comedy. There seems to have been considerable poetic licensing going on with the actual events but the modified story is interesting and will keep you seat edging for most of the way. With an A movie cast of Stephen Rea and Mena Suvari, the story goes off the normal plain of behavior as in most of director Gordon’s previous efforts, and he continues with his traditional massive use of blood bags. And while most of the unstuck characters are not moral pillars of their communities, director Gordon will grind at your conscience. The suspense level escalates as the stuckee may become unstuck or someone may find him with a severe wedgie in Suvari’s garage. The director plays with your sympathies for the hapless stuckee while tugging at your feelings for the rather heartless ingénue well played by Suvari. And just when you think things can’t get any worse, hang on. The movie is rated R for: orbulations and bumulations, graphic sex, drugification, drunkification, splintification, cat fight, wiper blade to the groin, pen to the eye, hammer to the head, fire to the garage, multiple undocumented aliens, lack of bowel control, and for multiple compound fractures.