Hell and Back (2015)
9/10
A Lampooned Campy Cult Film
13 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I have never written a review on this website or published one on any website or forum ever before. But I watched this film because I was bored, and it's cold and frosty where I'm at right now. The first ten minutes of the film were very off putting. I found myself thinking "Yeah, I'd need a quarter of weed to watch this and get any value out of it". But I didn't have anything better to do so I figured I'd might as well give it a chance. I am glad I gave it that chance. It only has an aggregated score of 5.3 on this website, and I can see why. This is the type of film that came out 2 generations too late. If it had been released when my Dad was not quite my age, along with animations like "Fritz The Cat", it would have developed a cult following. It might very well do so. It has incredibly crude humour. Any expectations of subtlety should be eschewed before perusal of this flick. Orpheus, the Greek artists/poet/singer/bard/etc. is featured, and it is referenced that he is anally raped by a sentient tree at a young age in the woods of what I assume to be either Greece or Hell (which would be paradoxical). This film is a relief from 99 percent of the crap that theaters are releasing nowadays and it's equally refreshing in that you can take it at face value. To sum it up: search up "Mourning Wood performed by Orpheus", on YouTube. It's the link of him singing a song from his experience. If you like it, you'll probably like the movie. If not, you won't. It's like Crawdaddies, you love em, or you hate em. 9/10. Refreshing.
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