Ok, so…Killjoy has been widely dissed across the internet review-wise. Even the folks at Cold Fusion Video, known for giving most Full Moon efforts a *ahem* significant amount of slack, threw Killjoy in to the crapper something fierce. To those people I simply have this to say:
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!
Killjoy is a masterpiece and a perfect example of what Full Moon was doing right during the ‘Features’ time period. Full of horrible one-liners, acting done clearly under the influence of massive amounts of herb and that lovely reckless abandon Full Moon threw into movies at that time and you get Killjoy. A great flick that I highly (hehe) recommend you check out with an open mind. Be ready to laugh in total disbelief that someone would actually make a movie as truly horrible as Killjoy is.
Watching the Behind The Scenes featurette (which you must do first as with all Full Moon flicks), you’d think you were getting ready to watch the film of the fucking century. All of the actors do the self-masturbatory one-man reacharound praising their cohorts and folks responsible for the movie. You know they have to be kidding..noone could take a movie like this seriously.
You can read about the plot in-depth elsewhere.. basically all you need to know is a nerd gets popped for hitting on a gang-lord’s girl. Shortly before this, he prays to a doll, aka Killjoy, to help him level some revenge against the thug and his cohorts. This ends up working after he’s dead and Killjoy then brings on a reign of terror, wiping out the bad dudes in short order. So that should end things right?
Wrong.
Killjoy then goes after the “good” guys..I guess since they had 45 minutes left of movie to blow.
I’ll leave it there, but to say it gets completely ridiculous is an understatement.
I can’t stress enough how great this movie is and if you are a true Full Moon fan, you owe it to yourself to at least rent this/snap it up on Netflix. I’ll get around to reviewing Killjoy 2 next – which made me want to slam my face through a plate glass window covered with duct-taped strips of thumbtacks and rabid mice.
