Defamer
Today's Variety offers a cornucopia of eye-popping advertisements meant to catch the attention of American Film Market buyers looking to find a B-lister-starring, low-budget diamond in the rough (David Boreanaz in Ghost Writer! Patrick Swayze's Jump! Treasure Raiders, with David Carradine! ) they can polish up for audiences hungry for any entertainment product featuring a semi-recognizable Hollywood name.
But not even ads for fading actors' desperation projects leap from the trade paper's pages as memorably as the one for Norwegian import Kill Buljo, featuring a poster (click the image for a larger version) that seems to promise a protagonist who will engage in the kind of goat-raping, sword-slashing adventures that will combine the best of Quentin Tarantino and Sacha Baron Cohen's provocative oeuvres. Get out those checkbooks before some other distributor desperate for post-strike product can rush it into as many as five domestic movie theaters before kicking off a lucrative home video run.
[Ad via Digital Variety]
- Kill Buljo [IMDb]
Comments
It's reassuring to know that America isn't the only country where derivative stupidity often obliviously veers into the near-psychotic.
Typically, this would be a porn selection, in the vein of Saving Ryan's Privates.
Nothing beats last year's Blood Monkey. The tagline was "the next step in EVILution" and the onesheet at AFM had a cute little spider monkey with blood dripping from his mouth.
Here's the trailer. You'll never join a team of young researchers looking for an insane zoologist again, I guarantee you that.
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