Mule Skinner Blues (2001)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Stephen Earnhart

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

All you need is a gorilla and a dream

Plot Keywords:

Film Premiere | Dog In Freezer | Vietnam Vet | Screenwriter | Trailer Park

Cast

Beanie Andrew	...	Himself
Don Arrup	...	Satan Worshipper
Emily Brannon	...	Seductress
Holly Cavanaugh	...	Herself
Raymond Dagley	...	Himself
Matt Elefant	...	The Handsome Neck
Salvatore Froio	...	Suave Vampire
Lance Hallowell	...	Vampire Killer #2
Heidi Horst	...	Biting Vampiress
Miss Jeannie	...	Herself
Ray Lane	...	Himself
Roy Lane	...	Himself
Annabelle Lea Usher	...	Herself
Ricky Lix	...	Miss Jeannie's Doctor
Gleb Mikhalev	...	Young Boy
Amber Mizell	...	Nude Girl in Woods
Irina Palkanian	...	Dying Vampiress
Larry Parrot	...	Himself
Sol Parrot	...	Himself
Stephen C. Rhatigan	...	Dancing Cop
Stu Richel	...	Vampire Killer #1
Taryn Smith	...	Herself
Jeff Soymann	...	Miss Jeannie's Doctor
Yancy Spencer IV	...	Forest Monster
Charlene Stewart	...	Herself
Moribai Vayne	...	Whip Girls
Kendra Sue Waldman	...	Vampire Lover
Steve Walker	...	Himself
Tim White	...	Himself (in music video) (archive footage)
Angie Zander	...	Herself

MPAA:

Rated R for brief language and sexual content/nudity.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Company:

Bean-Tyle Productions

Quotes:

Beanie Andrew: If you fall in the mud, you might come back as a gorilla.

Movie Connections:

Features The Bride and the Beast (1958)

Train Wreck

A good friend of mine has a name for movies like this: it's train wreck....meaning, you can't look away but you want to. He first assigned that name to Grey Gardens, although Grey Gardens is a little more weird & classy than this. Here we have a bunch of sad individuals in a little town near Jacksonville (Mayport) that band together to make a horror movie called "Turnabout is Fair Play". There's a lot of build up to the final 15 minute feature, which isn't shown in its entirety, and some of the journey there is worth the ride, but mostly what we have is a bunch of really sad & depressing characters that don't have much hope in life, although they never seem to give up. We have (in the trailer park) a woman that has her deceased pit bull in the freezer, a woman that fancies herself to be a country singer (snot helps her voice, she says) and Beanie himself, a definite weirdo. Oh, and a singer/guitarist/Vietnam Vet/grizzled alcoholic, probably the most pathetic of any character here. Although since most of them are pretty pathetic, it's hard to say. We have Larry Parrot, a would be horror writer, who displays his prized possession, the press kit from The Mummy, autographed by Christopher Lee himself. Larry seems to be your classic underachiever, he's apparently a prolific writer but makes his living with his wife, cleaning doctor & dentist's offices. Beanie himself chews up most of the movie, and at some point he takes a drink again (he's a alcoholic) and winds up living in the woods. 3 years later, after many changes & Beanie being back on track, the movie is released to a small crowd, and it's never explained how it came to finally be put together, but the crowd seems to enjoy it. They're laughing a lot, but whether or not it was intended to be funny is another question. If you want to see a better movie of this sort, try American Movie, it makes for much better watching and doesn't have this irritating Beanie character in it.