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2014’s Boyhood took 12 years to make. Some of these films make Boyhood look like an episode of South Park.

14 ‘Kill It and Leave This Town’: 14 Years

Polish animator Mariusz Wilczyński set out to make a short animated film about a person whose entire family dies, so they run off to a land of memories where time doesn’t exist and everyone is alive. At some point, Wilczyński decided it should actually become a feature length psychological horror, which took just a smidge longer to animate.

13 ‘The Evil Within’: 15 Years

Writer/director Andrew Getty self-financed this horror film, which was based on his childhood nightmares, for about $6 million. He filmed his deepest fears inside his own mansion, toiled away for years on special effects, and died before he could finish. The producer had to do the final editing to get it across the finish line.

12 ‘Pakeezah’: 16 Years

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I've recently had the opportunity to check out three Us Blu-ray releases of varying degrees of weirdness. Intervision Picture Corp.'s Blu-ray release of Christina, Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray of Rudy Ray Moore's Dolemite, and Drafthouse Films' recent release of John S. Rad's Dangerous Men.  All three are definitely strange in their own way, but they are also oddly compelling. Check out the details below to find out why....

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I've recently had the opportunity to check out three Us Blu-ray releases of varying degrees of weirdness. Intervision Picture Corp.'s Blu-ray release of Christina, Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray of Rudy Ray Moore's Dolemite, and Drafthouse Films' recent release of John S. Rad's Dangerous Men.  All three are definitely strange in their own way, but they are also oddly compelling. Check out the details below to find out why....

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There are good movies, bad movies, and plenty of movies in between — and then there are movies like Dangerous Men. It’s a charmingly inept action/drama that’s utterly uninterested in predictability or following the norms of narrative film-making. Characters come and go, main plot points are dropped randomly while others are picked up, and it was filmed over two decades. Two decades for an 80 minute movie with zero narrative cohesion! It’s pretty magical in its own special way, and as the credits make clear, it’s all due to writer/director John S. Rad. Drafthouse Films helped reintroduce it to the world, and their Blu-ray/DVD release features interviews, a documentary on the film’s rebirth, and a fittingly funny and ridiculous commentary track. It’s not for everyone, but it’s definitely for someone — and you know who you are. Keep reading to see what I heard on the Dangerous Men commentary. Dangerous Men...

There are passion projects, and then there's John S. Rad's "Dangerous Men." In production for nearly two decades, when it was released in 2005 for one week at Laemmle's Monica 4Plex, it earned a mere $70. However, the film has since become a midnight movie favorite, and was brought back into the world by Drafthouse Films. Now gearing up to hit home video, we have an exclusive clip from the picture to give you a taste of the B-movie madness. The movie kicks off when Mina witnesses her fiancé's brutal murder by beach thugs, and then sets out on a venomous spree to eradicate all human trash from Los Angeles. Armed with a knife, a gun, and an undying rage, she murders her way through the masculine half of the city's populace. But a renegade cop is hot on her heels, and the trail to Mina also leads him to the...

Director John S Rad created an object of strange and wondrous oddity with his Dangerous Men, a film that would surely have become a cult classic if only it had ever actually been released. Well, it took a while, but Drafthouse Films have finally done just that and following up on its theatrical run the film is now available for audiences around the globe to experience on iTunes. In 1979, Iranian filmmaker John S. Rad moved to the U.S. to shoot his dream project, a rampaging gutter epic of crime, revenge, cop sex and raw power. Just 26 years later, he completed an American action film masterpiece that the world is still barely ready for today: Dangerous Men. After Mina witnesses her fiancé's brutal murder...

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Remember that scene in The Boondock Saints, where Rocco can’t comprehend how Connor and Murphy MacManus pull of their death-defying assassination stunt after breaking through a hotel air vent? You know, this rant?

That’s exactly how Dangerous Men makes me feel.

The late John S. Rad’s film is a technical clusterf$ck, from unsynced audio to horrendous jump cuts without any foreseeable logic. This is a poorly constructed film in every imaginable category, from actors who are dead on arrival, to a story that can’t be more than a few sentences long. Yet if you’re reading about Dangerous Men, then I assume you’ve already seen Roar and Miami Connection. In that case, you’re probably already dying to hear what abhorrent cinematic atrocities await in this year’s only true cult phenomenon – Drafthouse’s latest resurrection release.

Do you really need a plot summary here?...

He has a woman that takes a knife out of her behind to kill somebody. How does he think this is going to make money?"

More than 30 years after Iranian filmmaker Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad, a.k.a. John S. Rad, began work on the L.A. sleaze cult film Dangerous Men, his daughter, Samira Wenzel, still shakes her head thinking about the mesmerizing, incomprehensibly riveting movie.

"I asked him, 'What do you think? This is going to make millions of dollars?,'" Wenzel says. "He goes, 'Well, there's two ways...

Man Trouble: Rad Enters Race for Worst Film Ever Made

A unique oddity even amongst contemporary counterparts competing for notoriety as one of the worst films ever made, John S. Rad’s Dangerous Men is, without a doubt, a terribly made film. What is perhaps most fascinating is the laborious production of the film. Rad, an Iranian immigrant, began making his labor of love in the 1980s, and would continue to film sequences over the next two decades. In that time, cast members and characters seem to have disappeared, explaining a jumbled narrative and a myriad of unexplainable events. The film does perhaps usurp Tommy Wisseau’s strange perseverance to complete his 2003 opus The Room, another director seemingly clueless about all aspects of the filmmaking process yet still determined to complete his compromised vision.

But as far as film criticism goes, it’s difficult to correctly ascertain the value...

Dangerous Men's Iranian born director John S. Rad (Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad) left only this odd cinematic totem of his existence on earth when he died in 2007, soon after the film's belated (and extremely limited) theatrical release in 2005. While he'd stated in at least one interview that he had spent his life pursuing creative endeavors, it's hard to track down anything other than Dangerous Men, and that one only because of the heroes at Drafthouse Films. Unlike Drafthouse Films' releases of similarly bonkers oddities like Miami Connection, The Visitor, and Roar, which had some ensemble elements to their creation, Dangerous Men only exists because of John S. Rad's unflappable determination to will it into existence. Every single major on screen production credit has Rad's name proudly attached....

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Read More: Watch: 'Dangerous Men' is the Most Perfect Film You've Never Seen in Bonkers Nsfw Trailer This coming weekend will see the long-awaited release of "Dangerous Men," an action film oddity/achievement that took 22 years to complete and another decade to hit screens. It's a combustible aesthetic assault of machismo, vengeance, non-arousing sexuality and unspeakable anti-logic, framed in a sweat-choked L.A. otherworld that's filtered through the unique mind of Iranian-American outsider filmmaker John S. Rad. Brimming with ideas and dialogue grown from a primordial alien id, "Dangerous Men" is like no other experience you will ever have with a movie. But!... against all odds, it's representative of a secret genre that is only now creeping its way into the limelight; a decidedly '80s cinematic sub-sub-sub-category that we lovingly refer to as "Action Dads!!!" If you're like me, you thrill to heroic, no-rules masculinity defined...

The latest trailer for Dangerous Men promises that it's like nothing you've ever seen before. And while that is a pretty bold claim to make in 2015, after watching this 90 second sneak peek, you'll realize that this teaser is not lying. The new trailer arrives with 6 character posters for Drafthouse Films' Dangerous Men. It is the latest epic mind-melter from the curatorial force that brought us Miami Connection, The Visitor and Roar.&#160

In 1979, Iranian filmmaker John S. Rad moved to the U.S. to shoot his dream project, a rampaging gutter epic of crime, revenge, cop sex and raw power. Just 26 years later, he completed an American action film masterpiece that the world is still barely ready for today: Dangerous Men. After Mina witnesses her fianc&#233's brutal murder by beach thugs, she sets out on a venomous spree to eradicate all human trash from Los Angeles.

Armed with a knife,...

Dangerous Men is a very strange, very special beast that has to be seen to be believed. Although you could be forgiven for thinking it was written and shot by aliens who had never seen a movie (but had a few described to them), it’s actually the one and only film of the late John S. Rad. It’s a singular, […]

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Drafthouse Films, the curatorial force behind exceptional repertory releases such as the ninja-blasting synth-rock monolith Miami Connection, the psychedelic sci-fi brainmelter The Visitor, and the most dangerous movie ever made, Roar, have announced the acquisition of their latest cult sensation, Dangerous Men, following a packed-house screening of the film at Fantastic Fest. The fanatical brainchild of Iranian polymath John Rad, Dangerous Men is a passion project that remained in obsessive production for nearly two decades before finally debuted in Californian theaters in 2005. An unflappably prodigious creative force, Rad handled much of the technical duties of the film, appearing multiple times in the film's credits as the director, writer, location scout, producer, executive producer, and more. You can finally get your first glimpse of this lost film in the first trailer.

Despite initially languishing at the box office during its limited theatrical release, and never finding a likeminded audience before Rad's...