Weirdsville
Darius Films

2 Stars

Directed by
Allan Moyle

Recently, there was a major motion picture called “Déjà vu.” It was a science fiction action flick about time travel. This has nothing to do with the flick in question. However this film DID remind me of the title, because I definitely had a major case of it while watching.

“Déjà vu” is when you feel you've been someplace or seen something before when it's clear that you haven't. I could have sworn that I've seen bits and pieces of this film before SOMEWHERE, but it's quite clear that Willem Wennekers' screenplay is entirely original, and just feels like a retread. Consider…

 

Dexter (Scott Speedman) and Royce (Wes Bentley) are stoners living in the Canadian north. The film starts with them being threatened, but we immediately flash back to three days before, where they and Royce's girlfriend Matilda (Taryn Manning) are about to rob the mansion of comatose millionaire Jason Taylor(Matt Frewer), but can't get themselves to do it. The reason they are considering such action is that Dexter owes local bad guy Omar (Raoul Bhaneja) over a grand, but Omar has an idea. Our heroes can take sell some of Omar's stash and make back the debt that way. But since they're stoners, Royce and Matilda snort it all, and the latter appears to be dead. This kind of sounds like a Cheech and Chong movie doesn't it?

 

So obviously, they can't call the cops, and are going to bury her in the basement of the local bijou, but at that exact time, a bunch of local Satanists (Greg Bryk, Maggie Castle and Dax Ravina) holding a human sacrifice, and since this goes awry and Matilda revives, and some mystical energy has been misplaced, the usual silly chase around town takes place, including trips back to the mansion and the mall, where there's a altercation with a diminutive security guard (Jordan Prentice). Everything's so obvious that we think we've seen this before dozens of times.

Yes, parts of it are actually funny, and there are plenty of giggles throughout, but everything seems like it was done paint-by-numbers. This is a bit of a waste, unless you're wasted. Which, I guess is why the Canadian government  invested the people's hard earned tax dollars on it.


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