Speed Demon

Part fast and furious part satanic teen homo-erotic thriller with a mind blowing twist ending. Nobody wears a shirt in the first hour of this movie except for the 2 female actors, which left me wondering when DeCoteau would just give up and turn this one into a porno. Glacial acting skills as one would expect from the director of such fine films as Creepozoids, Voodoo Academy and American Rampage.

Going in I knew how bad Decoteau was. I accidentally saw The Brotherhood and The Killer Eye. If you like bad movies, and are prepared for Decoteau's style, you will find the movies entertaining in that they are so laughable. One thing about Speed Demon, in the director's commentary he says he wanted to make a possessed car movie, which is totally not what this movie is about. Found that funny. Also, read an interview with him and he keeps producing these straight to video movies because he has made a lot of money off of distribution via blockbuster. He has a somewhat cult following. There's rarely any blood and no cursing as he said he wanted to avoid R ratings. He is openly gay and thought it would be interesting to put a homo-erotic spin on horror movies since it is usually women who are objectified. Signature Decoteau elements: usually one 4 max 5 locations; extended slow motion scenes, gratuitous crotch shots of guys in boxer briefs; very limited dialog (scripts can't be more than 4 pages long); group casts; holes in the plot; and random scenes. Film students should write a paper on his work and how bad it is. I actually kinda like the guy's stuff now, well except Wolves of Wall Street - that one was lame. :)

I rented this movie and boy was I wrong to...this movie was definitely not worth the money. It looked like and sounded like it might be a good movie, but sure as heck wasn't. It started off somewhat decent..but then, I noticed that throughout the whole entire movie there was only a few scenes where the males actually had clothes on. This wasn't a X rated movie, but I was awfully disappointed also by the acting and the script. I was too busy laughing throughout the entire movie. The best thing about the entire movie was the 1970 Chevelle SS that was black and had white racing stripes. The other part that was really disappointing was the race at the beginning of the movie. It was so boring and staged...

A college kid returns to his FastCar hometown to find that his chums have turned to the supernatural to make their wheels go faster. This movie could be seen as a parody of testosterone-fueled jokes like "The Fast and the Furious," but it is played so damn straight-forward that it is impossible to take that way. DeCoteau's genre gender play is amusing and appreciated--for the first 20 minutes, all the male characters are topless, just chillin' at the garage with their buddies, and the two female characters are fully clothed. However, his fascination with buffed 'n waxed torsos is more than a little boring. I don't understand why he just doesn't go all out and make his films gay with lots of nudity instead of making these straight-forward movies where straight male characters in their scanties rub blood all over each other. Make a real homo-horror, dammit! Nobody wants to watch this crap.

I can honestly say,this was the worst movie(?)i have ever seen.i did laugh my ass of at random intervals at the stupidity of it all.it's basically a bunch of wannabe poser who don't realise they're in a movie.but wait,they're not in a movie.i don't know what you'd call what i just witnessed,but movie is not the word for it.proof that the world is coming to an end,is probably more accurate.but at least i can now say that Dracula 300 is not the worst movie ever made.it had to happen sooner or later.the worse news is,if you subject yourself to this-whatever it is,you probably won't forget it for awhile.i know it's seared into my brain for all eternity.this thing is a real achievement.i can't in good conscience give this dreck a positive score.my vote for Speed Demon:-10*