Groundbreaking horror movie aimed at teen-age girls but definitely taken over by gays for its incredible homo-erotic scenes. The DVD is indeed highly recommended, especially for its original running time (are included the infamous scenes hat Charles Band did not wanted first because of its gay context) but also for the comments of David DeCoteau.
It's near zero budget with cheesy FX and sometimes ridiculous make up FX (poor Debra Meyer!). It's sometimes VERY badly acted. The camera does what it can do for a 16mm shoot (the FX are in 35mm). It's a grainy copy. It has no blood. It has half naked men caressing themselves in the middle of the night (among other things). It has a devious priest throwing a poisonous wine onto the bodies of the young guys tied up in a chapel. It has Ben Indra doing things with his crucifix. It has voodoo dolls with human heads.It has a lot of over-the-top action and basically a storyline but no screenplay. In other words : WAOW.
VOODOO ACADEMY sets all the basics of a new sub-genre that gave David DeCoteau, a real master of the B-Z grade movies, a unique point of view as a film maker.(just watch THE BROTHERHOOD 1 & 2, FINAL STAB and THE FRIGHTENING...you'll what i'm talking about)
And, oh, yeah, it is pure fun. So forget everything you know about moviemaking. Be open-minded. It's no Citizen Kane. But it's no Joel Schumacher either (thank god)...just a natural mix of John Waters and Roger Corman.
Superwonderscope says 8
It's near zero budget with cheesy FX and sometimes ridiculous make up FX (poor Debra Meyer!). It's sometimes VERY badly acted. The camera does what it can do for a 16mm shoot (the FX are in 35mm). It's a grainy copy. It has no blood. It has half naked men caressing themselves in the middle of the night (among other things). It has a devious priest throwing a poisonous wine onto the bodies of the young guys tied up in a chapel. It has Ben Indra doing things with his crucifix. It has voodoo dolls with human heads.It has a lot of over-the-top action and basically a storyline but no screenplay. In other words : WAOW.
VOODOO ACADEMY sets all the basics of a new sub-genre that gave David DeCoteau, a real master of the B-Z grade movies, a unique point of view as a film maker.(just watch THE BROTHERHOOD 1 & 2, FINAL STAB and THE FRIGHTENING...you'll what i'm talking about)
And, oh, yeah, it is pure fun. So forget everything you know about moviemaking. Be open-minded. It's no Citizen Kane. But it's no Joel Schumacher either (thank god)...just a natural mix of John Waters and Roger Corman.
Superwonderscope says 8