(2000)
Johnny's comments:
The
Irrefutable Truth
About Demons is a 2000
cult thriller where
anthropologist and
part-time cult buster
Harry Ballard (Karl
Urban) receives a
video tape of a cult
meeting that he
doesn't have much
interest in, but when
he goes home for the
night, he is accosted
by an odd young woman,
Bennie (Katie Wolfe),
with an offer of
assistance which he
dismisses, but then he
is kidnapped by a
group of weirdos. He
barely escapes before
they can do something
to him and finds his
way to his girlfriend
Celia (Sally
Stockwell) who helps
him. During the night,
she is murdered in his
home and a message is
left in blood on the
wall that he did it.
Harry hides out in a
hotel and gets his
assistant to do some
checking, but he is
also murdered in the
process. That is when
he meets the cult
leader in the tape, Le
Valliant (Jonathon
Hendry), but before he
can take him, Bennie
drags Harry away and
tells him that she was
in this cult with
Harry's recently
deceased brother and
that she can help him
against Le Valliant.
Then the strangest
thing happens; he sees
the very dead Celia
walking into his
apartment and she
convinces him that
he's been dreaming the
last couple of days.
It's about to become
clear that it's all
been very real and he
is been played for a
fool, but by who?
Baffling movie about
'demons' wanting to
live forever with a
surprisingly nasty
tone. It also has that
oddball genre feel
that only seems to
happen in
Australian/New Zealand
movies where the
supporting characters
are dialled up to 11
with
wackiness/craziness
while the main
character is lucky to
be a 5 (exhibit A of
this - all Mad Max
movies). The final act
is so bizarre, lots of
pulling hearts of the
people's chests and so
fairly full-on scenes.
I really don't know
about this movie, a
truly bizarre effort.
Katie
Wolfe
film clips (collage
below)
La
Vie En Rose
(1994)
Johnny's comments:
The
clip below is from the
1994 New Zealand short
film La Vie En Rose,
which starred Katie
Wolfe - and she has a
nude scene in it.
Found it on the Oyster
Farmer DVD which I
capped years ago and
just remembered that
Katie Wolfe was naked
in that. Seems to be
on the other side of
the camera nowadays, I
remember seeing a
short film she
directed, This Is Her,
getting a regular run
when SBS used to have
a short film show.
Katie
Wolfe
film clip (sample below)
The
Ugly
(1997)
Johnny's comments:
The Ugly is a 1997
serial killer thriller
where inexperienced
psychologist Dr. Karen
Schumaker (Rebecca
Hobbs) is the latest
doctor to attempt to
get to the bottom of
notorious serial
killer Simon (Paolo
Rotondo). We find out
that he had a very
domineering mother
(Jennifer
Ward-Lealand) who
refuses to let him
know about his father
and is bullied
frequently at school
mainly because he is
dumb and cannot read.
His one ray of light
is school mate Julie,
who becomes his only
friend, but when his
mother refuses to let
Julie be his friend
after she finds her
reading a letter from
his father to him, he
is left with no one
but his mother. Not
long after, he kills
his mother. He tries
to live a normal life,
but finds it
impossible with the
urge to kill rising
and continued bullying
in adult life. He
claims to see images
of dead people who
tell him he must kill
and he starts killing
people to stop this
from happening, mainly
women. One night when
he is carting his next
victim to their
resting place, he hits
a dog with his car and
he takes the dog to a
vet where Julie works
as a veterinary nurse.
He decides that he
wants her for himself
and kills her brother
who he mistakes for
her lover, but it
eventually leads
becoming closer to
Julie, but those urges
won't go away and no
one is safe. Not Julie
or Karen.
Another odd movie with
supporting characters
up to 11 in
wackiness/craziness,
but is held together
well with a solid
relationship between
serial killer and
psychologist. Very
nasty movie with a
number of throats cut
both dreamt and in
reality and Rotondo
plays a believable
killer (Is that a good
thing?). Not a bad
watch if you're into
serial killer movies.
Strange that this
movie seems to have
fallen away in
popularity considering
this movie actually
featured on that
Boogeyman DVD with
Simon being listed as
one of the great
horror bad guys. Not
convinced that's the
case, but he must've
impressed someone
involved and he is a
very effective killer.
Wonder if there was
ever going to be The
Ugly 2?
Vanessa
Byrnes
film clip (sample below)
