Well,
the last film in our 31 Movies of Horror-Ween celebration, Thankskilling 3 didn’t
have a Part 2, so what better way to follow it up than with a movie that
doesn’t have a Part 2 or a Part 1. Of
course, I’m talking about Dude Bro Party Massacre 3. Remember how Thankskilling 3 claimed that all
copies of Part 2 were destroyed? This
one claims to be the only copy of Part 3 in existence. It’s the next logical extension of the
Grindhouse rip-off. Instead of being a
sleazy movie being shown in a fleabag theater in the ‘70s, it’s a flick someone
taped off television in the ‘80s (complete with fake commercial breaks).
The
best part is the flashbacks highlighting what happened in the last two entries,
which gives us scene after scene of unrelenting gore and several clever
moments. Once the actual movie takes
over, it becomes increasingly uneven as it goes along. That said, that opening montage alone is
almost worth the price of admission.
A
killer known as “Motherface” kills a frat boy named Brock (Alec Owen), the star
of the last two installments. His twin
brother Brent (also Owen) pledges at his brother’s fraternity and tags along to
a bros-only weekend in the woods.
Naturally, Motherface shows up to pick the dudes off one by one.
The
hit-to-miss ratio gets more sporadic the more the movie wears on, with the pendulum
of quality swinging wildly from annoying to genuinely amusing. Some of the kills are funny (like when a guy is
about to get sick and Motherface cuts his throat, so puke comes out of the
wound instead of blood), but the film is less and less successful the further
it gets away from the slasher parody concept.
The stuff with the pair of idiot cops isn’t very funny either and takes
up way too much screen time. No matter
how uneven the gags are, it’s hard to hate any movie that borrows from both Die
Hard 2 and Amazon Women on the Moon, not to mention features cameos by Nina
Hartley AND Larry King.
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