9 February 2008
The latest work from cult director Allan Moyle, he of Empire Records and Pump Up the Volume, Weirdsville certainly lives up to its title, and in our book that can't be a bad thing.
Scott Speedman (Underworld: Evolution, My Life Without Me) and Wes Bentley (Ghost Rider, American Beauty) star as Dexter and Royce, a pair of twenty-something stoners who on discovering their friend Matilda (singer-songwriter and star of Hustle & Flow, Taryn Manning) has overdosed on a stolen stash of drugs decide that burying her body beneath the local disused drive-in cinema would be a much better idea than contacting the police. Unfortunately, their inept efforts at disposing of Mattie interrupt a bunch of equally incompetent Satan-worshipping preppies who are in the middle of performing a ritual sacrifice. As their ill-conceived plans begin to spiral out of control, Royce and Dex find themselves on the run from the bungling Satanists, a vengeful drug dealer and a gang of vertically challenged medieval knights.
Fortuitously, there is a bright side to their predicament: Mattie's not really dead and together the trio has concocted a brand new plan to get themselves out of their ever-deepening hole – a daring heist at the home of a hippy millionaire that involves more than a little bit of help from a garden gnome. Welcome to Weirdsville. It's not just a place, we are assured, it's a state of mind.
Featuring a scene-setting soundtrack by a number of established and up-and-coming indie artists, the film was a big success at the 2007 Edinburgh, Slamdance and Raindance Film Festivals, and was critically acclaimed during its UK theatrical release.
Now Weirdsville is coming to UK DVD, courtesy of Contender Films. An anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer and optional Dolby 5.1 or DTS 5.1 surround soundtracks is joined by the following special features:
- Commentary by Allan Moyle Willem Wennekers and producer Nicholas Tabarrok;
- The Unmaking of a Title (26:12);
- Callbacks (4:23);
- Willem Wenekers: Writing Weirdsville (11:18);
- A Brief Tour of Weirdsville (15:33);
- The Bong Show (4:41);
- Go With Satan (4:13);
- Interviews with Scott Speedman & Wes Bently (5:04), Taryn Manning (4:15) and Matt Frewer (3:25).
Release date is set for 10th March 2008 at the RRP of £19.99.
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