Bayview Entertainment has tagged May 12 as the DVD
debut date for writer/director Wayne Slaten’s futuristic thriller, Dropa.
The Cold War, it seems, took a radically different
direction is this dystopian tale as the Soviet Union successfully attacked the
United States and enslaved what remained.
But there was a weird hitch to the nuclear onslaught, alien beings from
antiquity were “hatched,” which were called Dropa and immediately put to work as
laborers … this went on for 30 something years, until these creatures unleashed
a killer plague upon mankind.
It took five years for the leaders of the “Western
Territory” (the old United States) to eradicate the remaining Dropa. A special unit of killers called The Legion
was formed and for all appearances it seems that they were successful in their
mission … indeed, five years have passed and things have returned to
normal. “Normal” as things can be in a
post-nuclear world run by totalitarians.
It turns out that one of the Dropa has survived
(played by Jason Douglas — as Tobin in The
Walking Dead series) and is now taking
revenge on former members of The Legion.
It falls to Harrison (David Matranga), a retired Legion commander, to
track down this alien and be rid of his kind once and for all.
Dropa
plays out in one those alternate sci-fi realities. It blends a noirish mystery thriller in a “future” society (much akin to Blade
Runner) that seems every bit as depressing as the
thought of alien invaders and viral plagues.
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