The spirit of Rod
Sterling’s The Twilight Zone lives in writer/director Robert Scott Wildes’
Poor
Boy, which will be making its DVD debut courtesy of Indican Pictures on
Oct. 2.
The ARR for the film’s
current arthouse theatrical run works out to 81 days.
You can almost hear the
spirit of Sterling introducing the Griggs’ brothers, Romeo (Lou Taylor Pucci — Evil
Dead, The Story of Luke, Thumbsucker, etc.) and Samson (Dov Tiefenbach
— Jason
X, The Dark Hours) … “A portrait of two brothers — would-be conmen — who
live in a wasteland and dream of escape, but are caught in a nightmare of their
own making.”
It is indeed a surreal
world, made even more so by the periodic images of their father, Blayde (played
by Michael Shannon), as a wayward rodeo clown.
He mentored them and left for a life on the road … the “mentoring” seems
to have been confusing at best as the pair are now desert-bound grifters —
highly reminiscent of the Baker Brothers from Aussie filmmaker Russell Mulcahy’s
1984 outback horror tale, Razorback. Big plans, a half-step away from being
delusional and always with the feeling that violence — nasty in a Hills
Have Eyes sort of way — is about to overwhelm their world.
Wildes has created this
world where cockfighting, a roller rink (with hookers), illicit gambling
(penny-ante at best), a stolen lawnmower — complete with its crazed
bat-swinging owner — a dilapidated boat and a get-rich marriage scheme all seem
to make sense. Well, they make sense in
“The Twilight Zone” … and to the Brothers Grigg!
Circle Oct. 2 on your DVD
viewing calendar for a surreal trip into the neo-noir world of filmmaker Robert Scott Wildes’ Poor
Boy. It will be a trip unlike
any you’ve ever experienced.
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