Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Coverage - Chillerama

This is a terrible mini-feature i read for either MTV or Spike TV, i forget which.

CHILLERAMA

Okay seriously? What The Fuck.

this is a short-feature - its about 30 pages long - so its a fast read. A fast, retarded read. Its supposed to be a over the top horror/comedy which is mostly comedy, but really bad comedy. Its about this kid who is gay, but he doesn't want to accept that he's gay. He has a girlfriend who gets hit by a drunk driver right at the beginning of the story, and spends the rest of the story as this brain-damaged retard who just speaks gibberish. He has a run-in with this other gay kid who bites his ass during a wrestling match, turning him into a "werebear." which is some kind of hairy creature who can change forms at will, and loves buttsex. Then the protagonist struggles with the fact that he's gay, he accidentally kills his wrestling coach when his coach tries to molest him, and the action culminates with a big werebear fight at like a battle of the bands-type event. The protagonist comes to terms wit the fact that he's a werebear, but dones't have to run around killing people, like his predecessor were doing. Everyone lives happily ever after. Oh yeah - did i mention this is also a musical?



Overall, this script was really gay. It was also bad. The fact that it was a INCREDIBLY POOR allegory for the struggle that teenagers have to deal with when it comes to being gay when you are in a predominantly heterosexual, uber judgemental environment was FAR TOO OBVIOUS. The dialoge was awful, I'm pretty sure the author was high when he wrote the lyrics to the songs. I could understand an actor doing this if they couldn't get a job anywhere else, and actual legitamate work was something they weren't into, buuut this is just over the top. And bad. This is one of those movies, where if it got made, you would have that midwestern family sitting in front of their television berating Hollywood for their inability to make good movies. Not like Transformers 2 is helping out case, but still. Didn I mention this was awful?
PASSSS.