Wild Eye Releasing has gone down under for the May 24 DVD
debut of Aussie filmmaker Stuart Simpson’s Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla.
The film opened in September of 2014 at the Melbourne
Underground Film Festival, where it cleaned up with wins for Best Actor (Glenn
Maynard) and Best Screen Play (Addison Heath) and then hit Monster Fest two
months later in Melbourne where it scored both rave reviews and the coveted Crystal
Monster award for Best Picture.
More festival play followed, more awards, but now it is time,
at last, for genre fans to be able to enjoy this sweet black comedy on DVD!!!
Warren (Glenn Maynard) is an awkward, lonely man, who spends
his days parked on some side street in Melbourne, Australia peddling ice cream
(hence the title). He appears to have
only one interest in life, soap queen Katey George (Kyrie Capri), the star of Round
the Block … no, wait, let’s change that from “interest” to
obsession. There, that’s better, he is
obsessed with the star of Round the Block, Katey George.
It’s not exactly clear why he has picked this particular
venue to set up shop each day. Perhaps
it is just his nature do to the same thing over and over and over again.
If our boy Warren had half a brain he’d pick a different
spot as a pimp, street hustler and low life drug dealer named Rocko (Aston
Elliot) has taken notice of Warren’s little business. He likes ice cream, he doesn’t pay and he
enjoys beating up on the hapless Warren.
One bright day Katey is standing at the head of the line
ordering ice cream — apparently taking a break from a location shoot — and
Warren has the courage to at least strike up a conversation with her. His dream has come true.
If you believe that, then you believe in unicorns and pots
of gold at the end of rainbows. Between
the constant torments from Rocko and this chance meeting with Katey, the wheels
have now been set in motion for our this otherwise friendly ice cream peddler
to become unhinged … and unhinged he is (hint: he appears to have seen Taxi
Driver a time or two)!
Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla is one of those guilty pleasures
this is part black comedy; part psycho thriller. A message film too: You can only put the
heat on ice cream man for so long before there’s a meltdown!
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