Trash Menagerie

Dir. Barry J. Gillis The world is a pretty terrible place and many people do many terrible things. Violence constantly plagues us and oppression is omnipresent. This is not a thesis statement, but merely an observation, and a reductively pessimistic one at that, the appropriate response to which is probably, ‘Yeah, ok. So what?’ Barry J. Gillis doesn’t seem to be interested in the ‘how’ or the ‘why’ of it all. Or maybe he is, but with all the time in the world, he could not develop the filmmaking skills to properly communicate his ideas. To try to explain the plot of Wicked World would be a futile endeavor. Even if I could, the plot is irrelevant to the experience. And Wicked World is very much an experience. The film starts out as a slasher movie, albeit one that has been filtered through the mind of some extra-dimensional alien being. Groups of young people are killed by a middle aged man in a gas mask. He is able to walk right up to these people undetected until he actually t...

Dir. J. Christian Ingvordsen, Danny Kuchuck Mark Trex has no chill. But you can’t really blame him. You’d have no chill either if you were a convicted serial killer, recently escaped after spending 10 years in prison and on a quest to open a gateway to Hell by murdering the members of the death metal band you loved when you were a kid. Or something like that. He also has frequent hallucinations in which he’s attired in a loin cloth and battling a sword-and-sandal demon knight to the death. So Mark Trex really doesn’t have anything to be chill about. He’s the villain of Blue Vengeance , and he’s a shining star.   Essentially a police procedural with slasher elements, the story is pretty standard fare; maniac escapes from prison to continue his reign of terror and the cop who put him away the first time has to track him down again and take him out for good. But it’s the weird details that makes Blue Vengeance stand apart and in particular, Trex’s over the top char...