Review of 31 (2016) by Dirigiblepulp — 12 Dec 2016
It's one of Zombie's lesser works probably, but there's still enough going on here to recommend.
Richard Brake as "Doom-head". This should have been the movie. He gives a breathtaking, mesmerizing, screen-grabbing performance full of dread, anger, humor, and psychosis. He is the beating, blistering id of this film. More of him in anything and everything in the future please (this would go down as one of the great villain performances in horror history if the rest of the movie were up to snuff and had wider reach -- actually it still might).
The simple premise of this film really seems to belie something else going on beneath the surface. Something about the rich destroying and using the poor, the way we feed on each other, the gratification we get from it and so on. The action scenes are so choppy and blurry and poorly edited that it seems to become the point. Why can't we enjoy this? Why aren't we allowed to see the carnage in the moment? Only the aftermath, the blood on the walls.
I'm probably reading too much into it, but this film also offers a Mexican Nazi midget and an assortment of other villains that are pure off the wall Zombie so there's that too.
"Look into the eyes of a true Champion!".
"I ain't no f***ing clown.".
These are both almost instant classic quotes, all courtesy of one Richard Brake.
This review of 31 (2016) was written by Dirigiblepulp on 12 Dec 2016.
31 has generally received mixed reviews.
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