Nikos (2003) (V)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Andreas Schnaas

Writers:

Ted Geoghegan (writer)
Andreas Schnaas (from a story by)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

He's going to paint the town red... blood red.

Plot:

Due to a botched robbery attempt, a ruthless Romanian barbarian is somehow resurrected in modern day...

Plot Keywords:

Barbarian | Masked Killer | Torso Cut In Half | Oral Sex | Lesbian

Cast

Joe Zaso	...	Frank Heller
Felissa Rose	...	Sandra Kane
Andreas Schnaas	...	Nikos a lu Unziceanu
Antonio Tomahawk	...	Prince Vajk lu Rusu
Frank Franconeri	...	Bran
Daniel Alvaro	...	Vlad
Mike Marino	...	Torn Man
Hugh C. Daly	...	Romanian King / Video Store Clerk
Erotida Cruz	...	Romanian Queen
Fred Cerniglia	...	Romanian Son
Brenda Abbandandolo	...	Daisy
Joseph Michael Lagana	...	Pete Whittenberger
Joe Lattanzi	...	Ryan Lundin
Alicia Tsai	...	Anna
Danny Lopes	...	University Student

Also Known As:

Nikos the Impaler (USA)
Violent Shit 4 - Nikos (Germany)

Runtime:

USA:100 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:18 (cut)

Filming Locations:

Long Island, New York, USA

Company:

Cinema Image Productions

Trivia:

Thunders used to be a real gay/lesbian night club/bar in Huntington, Long Island, New York before it closed in 2005.

Movie Connections:

References Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)

Soundtrack:

A THIRD LIFE HAS FALLEN

Ridiculous

This movie is ridiculous. Let me add that it is fun to sit around with a bunch of friends and watch, and there's two ways to go about it. You can either put it on mute, and make up your own lines, or turn it up and listen to the ridiculous dialogue and hear people with no talent (for the most part) deliver lines. Nikos is a Romanian Barbarian or something who gets killed or something and some buffoons bring him back in modern day New York. He then proceeds to run rampant around awful sets and the few places that the film makers were allowed to shoot. Bloods flows. Much blood. I think the f/x are fantastic for what the $3.50 budget allowed. The team does a great job with what they had, and I'm guessing it was not that much. Then there's your lead characters. The guy that plays Frank has got to be kidding me. Ham is not the word. He seems to stumble throughout the film as though he's in the worst cartoon to date. Get a paper route my man. Felissa Rose, the one with the mouth from Sleepaway Camp, has her moments. But they're generally not when she's talking. Darian Caine skanks up and gets naked. There's a girl in this film, I think she's supposed to be Velma from Scooby-Doo, but she's a bit less believable than the cartoon character. There's also a bunch of doofy college kids and some dude with huge clownish hair. As for the people I have mentioned, I'm surprised they can read. Congrats. Then there's a dozen or so cops walking around this picture. I think they had 3 costumes between them all. My heart bleeds for the two officers in the movie theater, as their goofy uniforms almost take away from the fact that they're amongst a handful of people in this movie who actually belong on a screen. The short cop throws in some ham for us, the tall cop actually shows concern for the situation(he probably got fined for actually acting) and then tosses in some blatant Schnaas plugs. What does all of this mean? Rent it, buy it, steal it, whatever.....get a group of friends and watch the blood flow. That's why you get this movie. Schnaas obviously had a lot of fun throwing this together, using what he had, stretching it out, and Schnaasing it up as Nikos.