{"id":1359,"date":"2012-02-10T13:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2012-02-10T13:48:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:48:54","slug":"tromas-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Troma’s Fathers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCHICAGO \u2013 If the word Troma means nothing to you, then you may want to avoid \u201cFather\u2019s Day,\u201d a truly twisted and sadistic slice of horror-comedy that makes other recent attempts at grindhouse insanity (\u201cMachete,\u201d \u201cHobo with a Shotgun\u201d) look \u201cThe Help.\u201d It\u2019s a bit inconsistent (especially in the first act) but the sheer balls-to-the-wall (literally) approach to filmmaking here is so far over-the-top that one has to admire the audacity of the filmmakers, a quintet that goes by the name Astron-6.<\/p>\n

How simply crazy is \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d? You mean outside of the fact that it\u2019s about a serial killer named Fuchman (pronounced how fans of Troma films like \u201cThe Toxic Avenger\u201d and \u201cClass of Nuke \u2018Em High\u201d will know it should be pronounced) who rapes, dismembers, and kills fathers? Hmmm. Where to start? \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d features things that you probably think you\u2019ll never see on film (and much of America would say you never should). Like a serial killer slicing a man\u2019s throat and, while he\u2019s bleeding to death, chomping off his penis. Or injecting drugs into his own penile member before mutilating it. Intestines, puke, incest, and buckets of blood \u2014 \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d is remarkably crazy even in grindhouse terms. It doesn\u2019t quite have the whimsy of the best of Troma (especially in the first reel), but I\u2019d take it over many of the high-profile attempts at grindhouse horror and it\u2019s even more remarkable when one considers that the legendary company gave Astron-6 $10,000 to make it. I\u2019m slightly terrified to think of what they could do with $10 million.
\nStarRead Brian Tallerico\u2019s full review of \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d in our reviews section.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, despite the ludicrous gore, \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d is also pretty damn funny. The first act takes itself WAY too seriously (and the opening scene, featuring Fuchman using a decapitated head to give himself oral is too dark a note on which to open the film) but it clicks into a gear somewhere around the 30-minute mark when the three heroes of the piece have been united. \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d is a film about a priest, a gay prostitute, and a one-eyed vigilante trying to stop not just a male-raping serial killer but a centuries-old creature from Hell (the Fuchmannicus, of course). The story is SO increasingly crazy (incorporating drug-induced dream sequences and trips to Heaven and Hell) that one has to simply admire the insanity of the accomplishment. The film should be 80 minutes but runs 100 instead and I would have cut most of that from the too-intense first act, but \u201cFather\u2019s Day\u201d should still connect with the target audience for which it was created.
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