Weirdsville (2007)

Director:

Allan Moyle

Writer:

Willem Wennekers (written by)

Release Date:

12 October 2007 (Canada)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

Plot:

A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.

Plot Keywords:

Human Sacrifice | Porn | Drug Debt | Drug Addiction | Dark Comedy

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Scott Speedman	...	Dexter
Wes Bentley	...	Royce
Taryn Manning	...	Matilda
Matt Frewer	...	Jason Taylor
Greg Bryk	...	Abel
Maggie Castle	...	Treena
Raoul Bhaneja	...	Omar
Joe Dinicol	...	Jeremy Taylor
Jordan Prentice	...	Martin
Dax Ravina	...	Seamus
Elizabeth Lennie	...	Irene Taylor
James McQuade	...	Garry
Shayne Wyler	...	Todd
Joey Beck	...	Sheldon
Allan Redford	...	Theo

MPAA:

Rated R for drug content, language including sexual references, and some violence.

Runtime:

Germany:90 min (European Film Market) | USA:90 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Canada:14A | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Darius Films

Trivia:

During two Q&A sessions at the Vancouver International Film Festival (2007), director Allan Moyle stated that he intended to use completely different and better known songs for several of the sequences on the film. Because of how expensive the rights of those songs were, he decided to use local bands (Ontario, Canada) to supply the needed music for the scenes.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Royce: Slow down!
[trips over a tree]
Royce: Fucking tree!

Movie Connections:

References Planet of the Apes (1968)

Soundtrack:

Pinned Together, Falling Apart

Not weird enough

Weirdsville follows two junkie friends as they careen through a night of excess and oddities. The main problem with it is that all the weird situations feel contrived, like someone without much imagination sat around trying to think of weird things. It doesn't have the bizarre, what-comes-next edge of a Tarantino or Lynch movie; each time something happens that is supposed to be weird, it's just banal.

The acting, production and other aspects of the movie are fine; it's the script that suffers from a lack of weirdness. No doubt it sounded funny on paper.

The movie is watchable and better than a lot of films I've paid more to see. It's just that the synopsis and title misled me; I was expecting some really strange turns to the plot and all I got were midgets and dope fiends.