VFW is one AWESOME late night bloodbath of a movie, a low-budget old school B-movie straight from the 1980's & as if the legendary Director John Carpenter crafted this flick back in his glory days but of course Carpenter would've made it way better, but it has a Carpenter vibe.
"VFW" is so much fun especially if you grew up watching & loving all those old bloody & gory Horror-Thriller films on video, i did & John Carpenter is my all time favourite movie director & here there's homage to his gritty & ultra-violent 70's Classic Assault on Precinct 13 & a big dose of Troma sick flicks & just the general 80's vibe, look & dark atmosphere with great music to complete it's throwback quality.
My one main complaint is that the girl who comes to the bar for help is annoying & she can't act at all, Terrible dialogue from a horrible ungrateful character named "Lizard" i hated her & the other complaint i had was the actual bad guys or punk gang wasn't scary at all, not intimidating or really threatening at all as there was many chances they could've took & easily overrun that VFW bar!!!! It definitely would've been alot better if the threat was actually there & the gangs were actually scary.
Also it should've been more realistic & scary instead of over the top fantasy as there's nothing in here realistic at all but i guess that's the fun of it all, a gory little low-budget late-night B-movie.
Here this little story is about an old group of war buddies who hang out in a battered old den/bar for "VFW" folk, that's Veterans of Foreign Wars & here we get a fantastic team of great B-movie actors that have to team up Like the old days & protect & board up their little bar against a gang of drugged-up street punks as they lay siege to the bar when a young punk chick enters for protection from the punks & our team of old soldiers get another chance at action & must use any weapon available.
Now the America shown in VFW is almost a wasteland full of junkies & punk gangs & everything is grim & gritty, America is in a dark place with a new drug called Hype, i got vibes of the first two Robocop films, Mad Max 2, Assault on Precinct 13, From Dusk Till Dawn, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, The Warriors, John Carpenter films, Hobo With a Shotgun, Troma films & typical Gritty 80's Horror Thriller flicks, basically this is a fun piece of grainy & grimy Grindhouse Cinema for the Video era generation.
We get a great line-up of AWESOME B-movie stars like the Brilliant William Sadler (Die Hard 2, Trespass, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Demon Knight) a veteran of awesome Cult Cinema & one of my favourite actors of all time & Sadler is an underrated legend & here Sadler gives one of his best performances of his long Career in the meaty role of an army jacket wearing & very funny Walter, a great Show stealing role & that's because of Sadler's screen presence & likeability, also we get the intense Stephen Lang (Don't Breathe) as bar owner Fred, who is one tough dude & also we get the legendary Blaxploitation & B-movie legend Fred Williamson, a great presence who first came to my attention in the Cult Classic Tarantino/Rodriguez Horror-Thriller From Dusk Till Dawn (One of my all time favourite films) but this guy has been in so much but "Dawn" is what always comes to mind when i see him & this movie is very much a mix of Assault on Precinct 13 & From Dusk Till Dawn, anyway the very old Williamson plays the still hard & super Cool Abe & gets the best line in the whole movie & delivers it so Cool & calm it's just pure Awesomeness "Let's See What All This Rumblings About" to finish off our main group of old war vets are David Patrick (The Warriors, Commando, 48 hrs) as the hippy looking Doug & Martin Kove (The Karate Kid) as the smartly dressed Lou & even Norm from Cheers is sat at the bar lol & each have their own Cult following for their great & iconic roles in plenty of Cult Classic flicks. As you can see the cast is Awesome, just missing Robert Patrick, Ron Perlman & Danny Trejo in my opinion, maybe star in a sequel? I can dream.
VFW is a gory as hell splatter flick that's full of great moments & excellent characters bits & an exciting & gritty Survive the night scenario with a huge gloss of Carpenter style poured all over it & gorgeous Neon-soaked sets of red & blue & a fantastic synthesizer theme that feels menacing & dangerous, this is a fun survive-the-night film & made very similar to the 90's Classic From Dusk Till Dawn but there's still sum gems out there like The Green Room, Don't Breathe & Run all Night, for example.
A good bit of gory fantasy, old Vhs style late night flick full of over-the-top violence & foul mouthed funny characters & a show stealing performance from Bill Sadler!!!
"VFW" is so much fun especially if you grew up watching & loving all those old bloody & gory Horror-Thriller films on video, i did & John Carpenter is my all time favourite movie director & here there's homage to his gritty & ultra-violent 70's Classic Assault on Precinct 13 & a big dose of Troma sick flicks & just the general 80's vibe, look & dark atmosphere with great music to complete it's throwback quality.
My one main complaint is that the girl who comes to the bar for help is annoying & she can't act at all, Terrible dialogue from a horrible ungrateful character named "Lizard" i hated her & the other complaint i had was the actual bad guys or punk gang wasn't scary at all, not intimidating or really threatening at all as there was many chances they could've took & easily overrun that VFW bar!!!! It definitely would've been alot better if the threat was actually there & the gangs were actually scary.
Also it should've been more realistic & scary instead of over the top fantasy as there's nothing in here realistic at all but i guess that's the fun of it all, a gory little low-budget late-night B-movie.
Here this little story is about an old group of war buddies who hang out in a battered old den/bar for "VFW" folk, that's Veterans of Foreign Wars & here we get a fantastic team of great B-movie actors that have to team up Like the old days & protect & board up their little bar against a gang of drugged-up street punks as they lay siege to the bar when a young punk chick enters for protection from the punks & our team of old soldiers get another chance at action & must use any weapon available.
Now the America shown in VFW is almost a wasteland full of junkies & punk gangs & everything is grim & gritty, America is in a dark place with a new drug called Hype, i got vibes of the first two Robocop films, Mad Max 2, Assault on Precinct 13, From Dusk Till Dawn, Halloween 3: Season of the Witch, The Warriors, John Carpenter films, Hobo With a Shotgun, Troma films & typical Gritty 80's Horror Thriller flicks, basically this is a fun piece of grainy & grimy Grindhouse Cinema for the Video era generation.
We get a great line-up of AWESOME B-movie stars like the Brilliant William Sadler (Die Hard 2, Trespass, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Demon Knight) a veteran of awesome Cult Cinema & one of my favourite actors of all time & Sadler is an underrated legend & here Sadler gives one of his best performances of his long Career in the meaty role of an army jacket wearing & very funny Walter, a great Show stealing role & that's because of Sadler's screen presence & likeability, also we get the intense Stephen Lang (Don't Breathe) as bar owner Fred, who is one tough dude & also we get the legendary Blaxploitation & B-movie legend Fred Williamson, a great presence who first came to my attention in the Cult Classic Tarantino/Rodriguez Horror-Thriller From Dusk Till Dawn (One of my all time favourite films) but this guy has been in so much but "Dawn" is what always comes to mind when i see him & this movie is very much a mix of Assault on Precinct 13 & From Dusk Till Dawn, anyway the very old Williamson plays the still hard & super Cool Abe & gets the best line in the whole movie & delivers it so Cool & calm it's just pure Awesomeness "Let's See What All This Rumblings About" to finish off our main group of old war vets are David Patrick (The Warriors, Commando, 48 hrs) as the hippy looking Doug & Martin Kove (The Karate Kid) as the smartly dressed Lou & even Norm from Cheers is sat at the bar lol & each have their own Cult following for their great & iconic roles in plenty of Cult Classic flicks. As you can see the cast is Awesome, just missing Robert Patrick, Ron Perlman & Danny Trejo in my opinion, maybe star in a sequel? I can dream.
VFW is a gory as hell splatter flick that's full of great moments & excellent characters bits & an exciting & gritty Survive the night scenario with a huge gloss of Carpenter style poured all over it & gorgeous Neon-soaked sets of red & blue & a fantastic synthesizer theme that feels menacing & dangerous, this is a fun survive-the-night film & made very similar to the 90's Classic From Dusk Till Dawn but there's still sum gems out there like The Green Room, Don't Breathe & Run all Night, for example.
A good bit of gory fantasy, old Vhs style late night flick full of over-the-top violence & foul mouthed funny characters & a show stealing performance from Bill Sadler!!!