It's Family Day here in Toronto - really, we have the weakest holidays on the planet - and while I could be spending the holiday playing with puppies or skipping through a local field (a chilly option, that one) or even - gasp! - talking to members of my family I have decided that, no, my time is better spent with this: the full theatrical trailer for Phil Claydon's Lesbian Vampire Killers. We've been covering the Brit horror-comedy with Gavin and Stacey stars James Corden and Mathew Horne for a good long time now and, really, with a title like that how could we not? The artwork has been fab, the initial teaser was fun albeit brief, and word from those who got into the market screenings in Berlin is that the film is an awful lot of fun, one that plays its premise to maximum effect.
And now we finally get a longer look for ourselves. This new trailer is far more substantial than the initial teaser, featuring a good amount of salty language, scantily clad lesbians, vampires, and assorted moments of graphic vampire carnage. Yes, please.
Check out both the trailer and initial teaser below the break.
Looking good.
hmmm. It's looking a lot better than the teaser, but it essentially looks the same as that other British Horror/comedy flick that just came out or is coming out. The one with the guys that go to the town that's all women that turn out to be werewolves, or dogs, or whatever.
I mean,seriously, this looks like the same f*cking movie, completely. The trailer structure is nearly identical.
Group or horny, nerdy men.
"Let's go out to the middle of no where, get wasted, and get laid."
"Holy shit, there's tons of hot, naked women."
"Oh no, they're monsters."
"Ok, let's kill every single one of them."
cue: scarily cathartic and mysoginistic carnage of nerdy men mutilating hot women for comedic effect.
hmmmm. Both have the potential to be fun, and offensive. Both have the potential to be really subversive satires. Both will probably be more like Severence with jarring tonal shifts that go between broad jokes and brutal violence with a few crowding pleasing moments in the end that will push the films into instant cult status ala "Evil Aliens".
And speaking of really offensive, politicall incorrect films on gender roles, what's going on with Dead Girl?
Nice call, there, indiemaker. The other film you're thinking of is Doghouse, by Evil Aliens director Jake West. Safe bet that West's film will be considerably more violent than this one.
As for Dead Girl, Dark Sky bought it for the US.