Written by: PBF
Bleading Lady (or Star Vehicle, apparently) is the latest film by Ryan Nicholson, of Gutterballs and Hanger “fame.” It arrives on DVD March 29th, courtesy of Breaking Glass Pictures. This film is much less gory and offensive as Hanger and takes a sort of “straight” approach. What results is a rather mixed bag of things.
Don Cardini (Dan Ellis) is a movie set driver who transports cast and crew to and from set. He is currently working on a film that stars his favorite scream queen Riversa Red (Sindy Faranguna). Don and the director of the film, Luke (Nathan Durec) do not like each other, mainly because Don is a deidcated horror fan and has a distaste for rip off films, which he believes Luke is making. He especially does not like this as Riversa is in it, and he has a thing for her. When Don learns that Riversa has a bit of a stalker problem, he sort of employs himself as her personal assistant. Don shows Riversa a copy of a script that he wrote, which she likes. Luke takes offense to this, and as Don hurls insults at him, he begins to detest Don even more. What erupts is a bit of a competition for Riversa’s attention, which turns violent and deadly after Don is fired.
The film is not terrible. It has most of the elements of terrible film, but Nicholson makes the terrible, tolerable. Most of the acting is repulsive, but Ellis is oddly fascinating. He has horrible line delivery and yet gives a convincing and not even over the top performance as a deranged lunatic that slowly unravels further into his psychosis. The story is very interesting and the way it unfolds it capable of holding interest throughout (the 76 minute runtime helps). There is even a slight twist ending which is quite pleasant unlike another twist ending employing dickhead’s films.
Make no mistake, this is low budget, but it is not too ambitious for that budget and pulls off a very watchable film. Nicholson is clearly a horror film fan and knows what entertains, and makes best use of resources to deliver films that will satisfy true genre fans. So piss off, casual movie goer!
Bleading Lady successfully blends dark comedy with decent horror and its straightforward approach works well. The funniest part of the film is after we watch a small chunk of mostly non violent, exposition dispensing scenes, over a black screen we hear a voice over by Don saying he knows the audience is asking where the killing is in this picture, and we are promptly shown a violent death. Nicholson is stylistic, and has talent, and hopefully someone will throw him bigger bags of money so that he can gain some more exposure.
Bleading Lady (or Star Vehicle, apparently) is the latest film by Ryan Nicholson, of Gutterballs and Hanger “fame.” It arrives on DVD March 29th, courtesy of Breaking Glass Pictures. This film is much less gory and offensive as Hanger and takes a sort of “straight” approach. What results is a rather mixed bag of things.
Don Cardini (Dan Ellis) is a movie set driver who transports cast and crew to and from set. He is currently working on a film that stars his favorite scream queen Riversa Red (Sindy Faranguna). Don and the director of the film, Luke (Nathan Durec) do not like each other, mainly because Don is a deidcated horror fan and has a distaste for rip off films, which he believes Luke is making. He especially does not like this as Riversa is in it, and he has a thing for her. When Don learns that Riversa has a bit of a stalker problem, he sort of employs himself as her personal assistant. Don shows Riversa a copy of a script that he wrote, which she likes. Luke takes offense to this, and as Don hurls insults at him, he begins to detest Don even more. What erupts is a bit of a competition for Riversa’s attention, which turns violent and deadly after Don is fired.
The film is not terrible. It has most of the elements of terrible film, but Nicholson makes the terrible, tolerable. Most of the acting is repulsive, but Ellis is oddly fascinating. He has horrible line delivery and yet gives a convincing and not even over the top performance as a deranged lunatic that slowly unravels further into his psychosis. The story is very interesting and the way it unfolds it capable of holding interest throughout (the 76 minute runtime helps). There is even a slight twist ending which is quite pleasant unlike another twist ending employing dickhead’s films.
Make no mistake, this is low budget, but it is not too ambitious for that budget and pulls off a very watchable film. Nicholson is clearly a horror film fan and knows what entertains, and makes best use of resources to deliver films that will satisfy true genre fans. So piss off, casual movie goer!
Bleading Lady successfully blends dark comedy with decent horror and its straightforward approach works well. The funniest part of the film is after we watch a small chunk of mostly non violent, exposition dispensing scenes, over a black screen we hear a voice over by Don saying he knows the audience is asking where the killing is in this picture, and we are promptly shown a violent death. Nicholson is stylistic, and has talent, and hopefully someone will throw him bigger bags of money so that he can gain some more exposure.
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