Weirdsville (2007)

A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.

Director:

Allan Moyle

Writer:

Willem Wennekers

Stars:

Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Scott Speedman	...	Dexter
Wes Bentley	...	Royce
Taryn Manning	...	Matilda
Matt Frewer	...	Jason Taylor
Greg Bryk	...	Abel
Maggie Castle	...	Treena
Raoul Bhaneja	...	Omar
Joe Dinicol	...	Jeremy
Jordan Prentice	...	Martin
Dax Ravina	...	Seamus
Elizabeth Lennie	...	Irene Taylor
James McQuade	...	Garry
Shayne Wyler	...	Todd
Joe Silvaggio	...	Sheldon (as Joey Beck)
Allan Redford	...	Theo

Storyline

Royce and Dexter are two slackers who live in the strange little town of Weedsville. When Royce's girlfriend Matilda overdose's on their stash and dies, they decide to bury her in an abandoned Drive-In theater. Things get out of control when they discover Satanists performing a ritual sacrifice right where they were going to bury the body...

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Plot Keywords:

drive in | drive in theater | satanic cult | wagner ride of the valkyries | premarital sex | 

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Taglines:

When the Days are Long and the Knights are Short.

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for drug content, language including sexual references, and some violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 October 2007 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Weirdsville - kummajaisten kaupunki

Filming Locations:

Brantford, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$2,862 (USA) (5 October 2007)

Gross:

$7,262 (USA) (19 October 2007)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Darius Films, Darius-Weirdsville Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 90 min (European Film Market)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

During two Q&A sessions at the Vancouver International Film Festival (2007), director Allan Moyle stated that he intended to use completely different and better known songs for several of the sequences on the film. Because of how expensive the rights of those songs were, he decided to use local bands (Ontario, Canada) to supply the needed music for the scenes.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Royce: Slow down!
[trips over a tree]
Royce: Fucking tree!

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Crazy Credits

"No animals were harmed in the making of this picture (we fished the poor little mouse out of the toilet before he drowned)."

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Connections

References The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Soundtracks

"Steal This Sound"
Written by Bryan Webb, Dallas Wehrle, Douglas MacGregor, William Kidman and Steven Lambke
Performed by Constantines (as The Constantines)
Courtesy of The Constantines in Canada
Published by Bryan Webb (SOCAN), Dallas Wehrle (SOCAN), Douglas MacGregor (SOCAN), William Kidman (SOCAN) and Steven Lambke (SOCAN)

User Reviews

"You know your problem is you have no ambitions."

As for a stoner black comedy, the Canadian made "Weirdsville" is as customary as you can get in how it goes about trying to weird you out. Of course what happens is random, wacky and just bizarre (encounters with Satanists and dwarfs), but not too surprising when compared to films of the same ilk. Even so, I found it hard not to enjoy. Mainly for the combination between Scott Speedman and Wes Bentley, who work off each well enough of as the two junkies involved in a crazy night of unimaginable incidents. Speedman plays it mainly straight, where Bentley is rowdy. But the two have some amusing banter and interchanges thanks to a ridiculous, but restlessly smart script. Taryn Manning as the third wheel adds the bite.

Stoner Dexter and Royce accidentally assume their friend Matilda has died from an overdose on the stash they are meant to sell to payback their drug dealers. In the panic of the situation they decide to bury the body. While in the process of burying her in the basement of a drive-in movie theatre, they disrupt a satanic ritual sacrifice and Matilda awakens making the Satanists believe it's the work of Satan. Now the boys are trying to get to her before the Satanists do, while also trying to pull off a heist to pay back their intimidating dealer.

As expected, everything goes wrong for these two slackers. Just like the scene where Speedman's character heads to a grungy toilet to vomit to see a mouse swimming helplessly around bowl and Bentley's character enter to only flush it. The two are stuck in a predicament, which has no easy way out but to simply go all-out and what occurs is haphazard. Director Allan Moyle's style is reminiscent of his previous efforts in "Pump up the Volume" and "Empire Records", but on a cheaper feel. At times it feels like a home video. Still Moyle shows great pacing and flashy touches, as the visuals show some creativity, especially the drug- fuelled hallucinations and this suit's the fragmented style of the unusual narrative with numerous droll characters (Matt Frewer is very amusing in his small part). Still it could have been much weirder than what it was.

"Hey man. You have an icicle sticking out of your head."