From Parts Unknown

2015
TV-MA
1h 30m

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4.8/10

125

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Action Comedy Horror Sport

Budding female pro wrestling champion Charlie is faced with a wrestle-pocalypse of homicidal monsters spawned by a wrestling video game.Budding female pro wrestling champion Charlie is faced with a wrestle-pocalypse of homicidal monsters spawned by a wrestling video game.Budding female pro wrestling champion Charlie is faced with a wrestle-pocalypse of homicidal monsters spawned by a wrestling video game.

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IMDb RATING

4.8/10

125

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The film was shot between Oct 6th 2007 and March 2nd 2008. The first edit was completed by the end of 2009 but, due to inexperience and lack of technical know-how, it was completed without location audio. The actors in FPU trained with PCW for 9 weeks to learn to impersonate wrestlers and did all their own wrestling and stunts. The actual professional wrestlers in the film were not required to actually wrestle in the film. Most of FPU was shot in an abandoned warehouse with no power, requiring a large generator to run lights, the noise of which can be heard in every shot at this location. By 2011 location audio had been re-synced but due to a falling out with those responsible was never delivered to the producers. During production the director's car was written off by a drunk off-duty police officer, the insurance money was just enough to allow shooting to continue. All the blood in FPU is made from Coles home brand chocolate sauce. In a pivotal scene depicting the death of a main character the actor playing the part of the killer failed to turn up and didn't return calls. An attempt was made to shoot the scene from a first person point-of-view, but in post production a random beam falling from out of shot was added to create the death scene instead. In the years 2011 - 2013 the producers shelved FPU and made, and then released world wide, the roller derby slasher film MurderDrome. In 2014 FPU was completely re-edited from source footage and finally premiered to a sold out crowd on Jan 10th this year.

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3/10

Not really an entertaining movie...

I sat down to watch "From Parts Unknown" (aka "Fight Like a Girl") with the impression that I was in for either a monster movie or a zombie movie. Turns out that it wasn't really much of either.

"From Parts Unknown" is a low budget movie, no doubt about it. And while you shouldn't just write it off just yet based on that fact, some low budget movies are actually fun to watch, either from having heart and spirit, or from being so phenomenally bad that they are good. "From Parts Unknown" wasn't either of those as well.

Turns out that this movie is somewhat of a strange mixture of movie genres put into a blender and served all mixed up, for better or worse. The comedy aspects of the movie didn't really work for me, and the zombie aspect was just half-hearted and once the zombies started talking I was done.

Sure, there were aspects of the movie that showed potential, but writer and director Daniel Armstrong just never really fully took advantage of that and used it to the best possible solution. As such, the movie just felt low budget and amateurish. That might be a harsh judgment, but that is the impression I was left with once the movie ended and I had endured some rough testing of my will to go on.

The acting in the movie was subpar, but that was mostly because of a poor script and underdeveloped characters in the story.

I am rating "From Parts Unknown" a mere three out of ten stars, because the movie didn't capture my interest and there was so very little in the movie that was actually worthwhile sitting through. I did endure the entire movie, but I can honestly say that I will not be returning to watch it a second time.