“Guns Akimbo” is kind of fun if you don’t expect more from it than a bratty, gore-soaked sci-fi/action black comedy about a shy gamer who learns to stop worrying and accept that he’s part of an online community full of desensitized players and bloodthirsty trolls.
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Miles, a bland audience surrogate and Nice Guy who learns to enjoy killing strangers in real life after he’s abducted and forced to participate in Skizm, an online fight club. Miles’ adventure isn’t an especially scathing social media critique since it’s set in a not-too-distant future where both cops and internet netizens are so inured to online trolling and explicit violence that the rise of Skizm is just grist for a seconds-long TV news montage.
Writer-director James Lei Howden (“Deathgasm”) makes Radcliffe’s spineless but conflicted hero go through the motions of a slightly-tongue-in-cheek power fantasy narrative,...
Daniel Radcliffe stars as Miles, a bland audience surrogate and Nice Guy who learns to enjoy killing strangers in real life after he’s abducted and forced to participate in Skizm, an online fight club. Miles’ adventure isn’t an especially scathing social media critique since it’s set in a not-too-distant future where both cops and internet netizens are so inured to online trolling and explicit violence that the rise of Skizm is just grist for a seconds-long TV news montage.
Writer-director James Lei Howden (“Deathgasm”) makes Radcliffe’s spineless but conflicted hero go through the motions of a slightly-tongue-in-cheek power fantasy narrative,...
- 2/19/2020
- by Simon Abrams
- The Wrap
The latest horror export from New Zealand is Danny Mulheron's new cannibal comedy horror 'Fresh Meat'. It is set to make its official premiere at this months Tribeca Film Festival on 23 April but you can catch it on VOD a whole week earlier kicking off on the 16 April. And to lead up to its Tribeca debut a new trailer and one-sheet have been released. Mulheron helms from a script co-written by Brad Abraham, Joseph O'Brien and Briar Grace Smith. Temuera Morrison, Nicola Kawana, Hanna Tevita, Kate Elliott, Jack Sergent-Shadbolt, Leand Macadaan, Ralph Hilaga, Kahn West, Will Robertson, James Ashcroft and Richard Knowles all star. Head below for the goods....
- 4/5/2013
- Horror Asylum
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