Blood! Guts! Heavy Metal!

Deathgasm

by George Wolf & Hope Madden

New Zealand teenage outcast Brodie (Milo Cawthorne) knows he and his friends are losers, so of course they start a band to get loud and be cool! But when their rocking involves playing an ancient piece of music known as the Black Hymn, they unwittingly summon an evil entity and the body count starts rising.

New Zealand actually has a strong history of blood-soaked horror comedies – beginning with the early, goretastic work of Oscar winner Peter Jackson – and Deathgasm is among the most accessible and most fun of the lot.

In his feature debut, writer/director Jason Lei Howden, a veteran of Jackson’s special effects team, borrows heavily from Shaun of the Dead-style pacing and camerawork while managing to poke some blood-spattered fun at the “devil music” stereotypes often thrown at heavy metal.

You’ll find plenty of laughs, some rom-com elements, and winning performances from both Cawthorne and Kimberley Crossman as Medina, the school beauty who can also swing a pretty mean ax.

You’ll also find an awful lot of clever kills, including the very non-traditional usage of a closet full of sex toys.

Clever and surprisingly self-aware, Deathgasm is fine excuse to feed your inner metalhead.

Verdict-3-5-Stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m6BIvN3ggM

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