Neon Killer

At once a spoof and a homage to the Italian crime films of the seventies. It's an entire feature film's worth of material condensed into a glorious five minutes. There was a lot of thought put into how Neon Killer was constructed. The aging evokes not just 35mm but VHS too. The British actors don't only pretend to be Italian actors but badly dub themselves into English too. A glorious title sequence that pretends at being a 1986 Italian movie with the names of cast and crew translated into fake Italian equivalents. Vivid lighting changes from green to blue to red in successive scenes. There are a lot of cuts to keep it moving along and even the segues ring very true. There are so many gore shots that many of them get a mere second or two of screen time, death by fire, acid, drill, hammer, machete, electrocution, even a leg severing pendulum.

Neil Keenan

Drill man

Darren J. Perry

SWAT Team

Louis Raynes

Detective Barry McClagen

Roger Robinson

Detective John Balmoral

Axelle Carolyn

Jennifer Marshall

• Ben RobinsonDirector

Release date

August 28, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

5m

Genres

Horror