Fear Town, USA
Cast: Anna Callegari, Mark Vigant, Cody Lindquist
Writers: Brandon Bassham, Reynard Alli, Patrick Foy, Dan Kenkel, Samuel Narisi, Mark Vigant
Director: Brandon Bassham
The number one great thing about Troma is the undying love for independent cinema. You probably just thought they make nothing but schlocky flicks with penis monster puppets and tits that shoot out radiation poison. Yet, they do continue to support up and coming filmmakers who may turn out to be the next big deal. They did it with James Gunn who before directing “Guardians of The Galaxy” gave us “Tromeo and Juliet”. Before Trey Parker and Matt Stone gave us their Award wining play “The Book of Mormon” They gave us their first musical called simply “Cannibal: The Musical“. Now they bring you filmmaker Brandon Bassham and his hilarious horror comedy. “Fear Town, USA“
“Fear Town:USA” is centered around a group of characters and their problems with getting to a party known as St Blevins Day. For those of you not in the know. St Blevins Day was named after the man himself who back in the late 1600s or maybe it was the 1400s. Anyways a real long time ago. Some guy named Blevin pied pipered all the polish children to their watery graves. While that indeed sounds tragic and sad. The party looks pretty awesome. Good people, great food, beautiful women, great booze. It looks like the parties you wished all the parties you went to were like but never happened. OK, well maybe it did happen but I was just never invited. So fuck you for locking me out of the naked room(you know who you are).
The humor works best when it takes tropes and cliches from other horror flicks and changes what you expect from them. In one scene a 16 year old girl gets a ride from a white van with black out windows. Inside said van, sits a psychopathic clown, a homeless drifter, and a guy doing his best impersonation of The Gimp from “Pulp Fiction“. When the door closes, the driver turns to the girl and says to get ready to have some fun. It cuts to black and when it fades up. The van has reached it’s destination and the young girl is being let out after having such a fun time playing card games with her new found friends. There are other great moments including a killer that keeps missing his target,a guy getting blamed for being the devil when the real devil is actual sitting there. My personal favorite is the homage to the underrated thriller “Hard Candy“. Which shows the online messages between a young girl and a much older guy. It starts off kind of dark and creepy, but soon turns into something very silly and dumb(but in a good way).
The whole movie is like a series of really good comedy sketches that have a great set up and a good punchline. Not all of the jokes were winners but at least they were constant and kept hurling them at me. This is the 2nd feature from studios after seeing “The Slashening“(click link to read my review) and after watching this. I’m convinced these are the cats that should have made the “Scary Movie” sequels. I know there are some who will just disregard this as being too silly and goofy, but what do you expect. It’s a comedy people.
To learn more about Fear Town, USA
Visit their Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fear-Town-USA/220370624773606
Follow them on Twitter. https://twitter.com/FearTownUSA
Read Troma’s press release and be sure to check out the other awesome movies in their filmography. http://www.troma.com/news/23444/troma-signs-ucb-alumnus-the-slashening-and-fear-town-usa/
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The Vern's Video Vortex. 
This actually looks entertaining.
I can’t lie, I tried watching Father’s Day once and failed to enjoy any of it. I kind of want to see Toxic Avenger though.
Troma like every other studio is going to have some hits and some misses. I just like the fact that they are at least doing new things. Thanks for the comments