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La Fear 2: The Sequel (2015)
Starring: Kyri Saphiris, Seye Adelekan, Denise Moreno, Leila
Reid, Hadrien Mekki, Roxy Sternberg, Andrew Tiernan, Aiko Horiuchi, Victoria
Hopkins, Eleanor James, Ian Cullen
Plot: After the disaster of Le Fear, director Carlos Revalos
decides to make a sequel with a bigger budget. What could go wrong? Simply
everything.
My Review and Thoughts:
This is what would happen if Woody Allan was smoking Crack.
It's a movie in a movie about making a movie. It's truly uniquely hilarious.
Odd and strange and yet over the top bliss. In simple terms a great comedy that
stands out above most of the comedies today!
This is what you purely call a true independent comedy. A
comedy mock horror inside a film that’s being filmed. This takes the wonderful
ideas of making a movie and truly more or less making fun of it or all the
wrongs that could happen. A horror sci-fi spoof that is in the reality filmed
like a fake documentary. I really can’t say enough good things about this
movie. It is a true comical wonderment of simple movie perfection. The plot is
simple yet so original and unique it’s truly hard to explain. The subject is in
the reality of a behinds the scenes look of a director who has created over 20 films
and now wants to make another. A 10 million dollar budget. The character Carlos
Revalos played wonderfully by Kyri Saphiris takes 500 pounds of his own money
to produce the film. He teams with a producer Wfi Womonbongo and what happens
when two different styles and ideas butt heads. One of the tag lines describes
it perfect, Nollywood meets Hollywood.
This is like everything that’s great about Woody Allen and
mixing in the likes of Roger Corman. The performances are laugh out
entertaining and utterly chaotic and ridicules as if chickens without heads
running around. I laughed in spots till I swear I was red in the face. There is
such a simplistic reality to the film and yet something so new and fresh and
thoroughly entertaining that it has to be seen. It’s like filming everyday life
and yet mixing in everything a director should not do in making a film. I
really enjoyed the concept of making fun of itself.
This stars a great cast of characters that leave an old
school style of comedy. A simple style of laughs through actions and talk. It
builds into a chaotic reality of ideas messing around with other ideas. The
director is at his tipping point when he can't get his production moving
forward without it being destroyed through cheap effects and a man who clearly
is not a producer and is only using Carlos's money.
It is at times what reminds me of Guerrilla style film
making. It blends a natural setting with the made up fictional setting of this
campy story. Rubber aliens, a witch doctor who wants to make a collect call,
firework explosions, and K-mart decorations. Vanessa the Vampire from
Transylvania, lesbian kissing, a Japanese actress who supposed to be French and
500 thousand pounds. Dr. Strange as the B-Movie actor had me rolling.
Really loved the performance by Seye Adelekan as the cheap
Nigerian no talent film producer Wfi Womonbongo. Seye magically created a
character that truly lasts on the viewer’s mind. Next would have to go to
Scherrikar Bell and Roxy Sternberg as Femu and Africa both from Nigeria who
play right along with the no talent Wfi as stating they are the Runner and
Special Effects person. All three ace there parts. The overall set ups of the
special effects from blow up alien dolls to fire crackers was just a giggle a
minute in the movie. From one outrageous shot to another bringing the film into
a twist and turn of cheesy comedy and gut busting simple humor.
The director and writer of the film Jason Croot also plays a
character in the film Chafarafa. Croot created Le Fear 2 in a way that mingles
into many genera's of filmmaking. He was able to hold the viewer from beginning
to end and create a comical farce of old school humor through a simple means of
making fun of itself.
All the actors aced there parts. Kyri Saphiris was able to
express the inner torment being caused to his ultimate vision of a horror movie
in perfect comical bliss and frustration. He along with all the players of
characters molded a simple yet perfect, unique, fresh and ultimately original
film that truly shines and expresses itself into comical banter and flawless
mockumentary ways.
This a great comical film of movie making insanity.
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