OK, warning: If you have a lot of hangups about nakedness, this is so not the movie for you. The trailer alone has more nudity than most movies, and it's not deceptive in any way. Other than where the cast first walks onto the nude beach they will be sunbathing on, it's mostly nudity of all sorts of people at all sorts of angles. Props to whoever came up with the photos for IMDB for even finding anything that would work on this site.
Second... yeah, it uses green screen to plop in a background and sometimes to get people who were filmed separately to appear on screen at the same time. That's actually, and maybe unfortunately, extremely common these days. The only real difference is this movie is so obvious about it. Look at the photos here on IMDB. They carted sand inside a building with green walls and went to town. Sometimes the background is pretty reasonable, sometimes it's weird old computer clip art. Ditto for extras and props. It all kind of feels like the QuickTime events you would see on 1990's video games . Better, but similar.
The plot? Crazy. Who knows how much of it was supposed to be the hallucinations caused by the mutants. Much of it, I'd guess. Nearly all of it? I had written the story off as meaningless, but then the end bit calls back to earlier plot points to make you realize it *was* going somewhere after all. Huh. That's actually surprising, and slightly better than a lot of low budget movies going through the motions with no real purpose.
It's difficult to call the cast a bunch of unknowns when it's uncertain how many of them used aliases. LL Elly seems like the most amusing fake name. Lucy Diamante, on the other hand, is a real actress with 11 credits so far -- although sometimes aliases become the actor's professional name after a while, so who knows. Even the writer/director Beau Mann is an alias, but a transparent one once you figure it out. With the acting, some is bad, some is passable. But with the way this was assembled together artificially, and with the script they were given -- assuming that all of them even had scripts, which I can't be sure of -- I wouldn't use any of it to prejudge their other work.
With a movie rating you have to balance a number of factors and also keep in mind what they were trying to do. This feels like it was an extended proof of concept nudist resort / COVID quarantine project / funny no-budget sci-fi film. They got the nudist part right, anyway. There's no boom-chick-a-wow-wow music or anything, and you can't exactly call a nudist beach gratuitous when it shows nudity.
Even with the bonus points for being daring and upfront with the main goal of the film, the most I can honestly rate this is 5 stars. I defy anyone to say it's even average for a film -- but it's maybe just below that.
