This is an expanded rewrite of our original review published as part of our coverage of Fantasia 2024 A yuppie loser finds his home trashed by a trio of mischievous freaks in Frankie Freako. Conor (Conor Sweeney) is a yuppie office worker, whose boss Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks) doesn’t believe his upcoming presentation is “spicy” …
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A yuppie loser finds his home trashed by a trio of mischievous freaks in Frankie Freako. Conor (Conor Sweeney) is a yuppie office worker, whose boss Mr. Buechler (Adam Brooks) doesn’t believe his upcoming presentation is “spicy” enough and even Conor’s wife Kristina (Kristy Wordsworth) believes him to be a bit “square.” When Kristina leaves …
This review was originally published as part of my coverage of TIFF 2014 From the Winnipeg-based film collective Astron-6 (Father’s Day, Manborg) comes this homage/spoof of Italian giallo horror films. Rey Ciso (Adam Brooks) was once one of the world’s greatest film editors. However, after losing his fingers in a freak accident, Ciso has been reduced …
From the Winnipeg-based film collective Astron-6 (Father’s Day, Manborg) comes this homage/spoof of Italian giallo horror films. Rey Ciso (Adam Brooks) was once one of the world’s greatest film editors. However, after losing his fingers in a freak accident, Ciso has been reduced to editing schlocky horror films, all while being distained by his former …
Manborg is an über-cheesy, ultra low-budget science fiction film, which is a homage to…well, über-cheesy, ultra low-budget science fiction films! The film is meant to look and feel like an old direct-to-video film that you would have found in the VHS bargain bins in the 1980s. Sometime in the future, humanity has fallen against the …