Average thriller I saw on the USA Networks's Up All Night, under the title Kill Kill Overkill. Up All Night always made these stinkers so much more fun to watch. Anyway, this is low-budget stuff, and staggers itself along the lines of exploitation, mystery, slasher, camp, and thriller. Seems there were some problems with the script. However, for B movie filmaking, and viewed on a not-so-serious level, this is okay. It has been years since I have seen this, but I do remember being able to get through it, while still remembering it's faults. Bad actors, lousy script, stereotypical villains, all the stuff you would expect from a film like this. Story is about girls who head to a cabin for a weekend and are stalked by two geeky grease balls. The outcome of the story is obvious. For the B movie horror fans. Or anyone who was a fan of Up All Night on USA. Two Stars.
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Amateur filmmaking is hard to endure
lor_22 May 2023
With its elements of "Blair Witch" shot several years earlier than that massive hit, I suppose "Twisted Fate" has a tiny bit of historical interest going for it, but little else. From a Time Capsule point-of-view, the 1993 release (with a 1991 copyright displayed) is emblematic of the many thousands of little more than home movies purporting to be horror films, continually shot in recent decades as the shot on video revolution unfolded -and it's difficult to watch.
The amateur technique and format here is a failure whether considered horror, thriller or just an exploitation film/video. The violence is poorly done or off-screen (no gore or SPFX); even with an actress who would soon after become a major porn star, Tiffany Million, in the cast as an abused hitchhiker, sex is promised but absent.
Filmmakers' main switch is a strong heroine, Jody, played by Susan Deemer (who failed to develop an acting career), proudly riding her motorcycle, and beating up all the male bad guys in the cast single handedly. The trivial story of a pair of mentally ill young guys, the Fate brothers, terrorizing three of her girl friends in a remote house is very poorly directed, and Jody arrives to save them.
Sort of comedy relief but unfunny, there's another pair of creeps who terrorize women, including Tiffany Million, and they are beaten up and fake-killed (they come back uninjured) repeatedly.
Ineptness is not enough: the lead villain Luther Fate, is so hammily played by Troy Fromin as to be worthy of showing in acting classes to demonstrate what NOT to do.
Similarly, Randall Frakes, as Jody's boyfriend who cheats on her and abuses her but of course she gives him a well-dserved beating, has worked on major films but rather presumptiously portrays a would-be porn star (yeah, sure) in a subplot mocking crude porn. In fact, much of "Twisted Fate" is far inferior to the major porn productions Tiffany Million would move up to, not downward on a quality scale, working for directors Michael Ninn and Michael Zen.
The amateur technique and format here is a failure whether considered horror, thriller or just an exploitation film/video. The violence is poorly done or off-screen (no gore or SPFX); even with an actress who would soon after become a major porn star, Tiffany Million, in the cast as an abused hitchhiker, sex is promised but absent.
Filmmakers' main switch is a strong heroine, Jody, played by Susan Deemer (who failed to develop an acting career), proudly riding her motorcycle, and beating up all the male bad guys in the cast single handedly. The trivial story of a pair of mentally ill young guys, the Fate brothers, terrorizing three of her girl friends in a remote house is very poorly directed, and Jody arrives to save them.
Sort of comedy relief but unfunny, there's another pair of creeps who terrorize women, including Tiffany Million, and they are beaten up and fake-killed (they come back uninjured) repeatedly.
Ineptness is not enough: the lead villain Luther Fate, is so hammily played by Troy Fromin as to be worthy of showing in acting classes to demonstrate what NOT to do.
Similarly, Randall Frakes, as Jody's boyfriend who cheats on her and abuses her but of course she gives him a well-dserved beating, has worked on major films but rather presumptiously portrays a would-be porn star (yeah, sure) in a subplot mocking crude porn. In fact, much of "Twisted Fate" is far inferior to the major porn productions Tiffany Million would move up to, not downward on a quality scale, working for directors Michael Ninn and Michael Zen.
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