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Father's Day (2011). 1 hour 39 minutes. directors Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy. an unusual trio attempts to stop a serial rapist and killer of fathers.

a joint project by Troma and Astron-6 studios. looks great for a $10,000 budget. it turned out to be more explicit in a way that i didn't expect (full nudity).

overall, an excellent film that i really liked. the plot is great, and at the end it becomes completely surreal. style reminded me of grindhouse films from the late 70s and early 80s. there's a lot of flesh, blood, guts, exploding heads, and, as I said, full nudity. there are a couple of scenes (body horror) where I had to close my eyes. decent synth soundtrack.

there are some dangerous-looking stunts, and as the film is low-budget, they are all performed by the actors. the stunts where they jump between moving cars looked dangerous.

there is a cameo by Lloyd Kaufman, who plays God and the Devil!

Manborg (2011). 1 hour 2 minutes (I don't know where IMDb got 1 hour 15 minutes from). director Steven Kostanski. soldier is resurrected in the distant future as cyborg to fight demons.

a project from canadian studio Astron-6, which specializes in low-budget films. i loved their take on giallo The Editor (2014), which I rewatched countless times. their Psycho Goreman (2020) didn't go well with me for some reason.

this is one of their early films, and it's predictably trashy, but clearly not cheap. it's actually quite well made. there are a crazy number of references to various B-movie sci-fi from the 80s. the plot can be described as Robocop in the universe of The Running Man fighting the Cenobites (Hellraiser). the main Cenobite is called Count Draculon, and he looks like Vecna (Stranger Things).

in general, this mix makes my head spin. i liked it moderately, with my head, but not with my heart so to speak. i just made notice of how cool it was filmed, but the humour was often too forced. this kind of humour is, of course, a cliche of this genre, but it was too simple, campy and didn't work well imo. the running time is only 1 hour, so overall I wasn't bored. I will watch at least two more films from this studio.