Jonathon Shakespeare: Demon Hunter!

A really, really, REALLY low-budget, cheesy horror-comedy in the vein of EVIL DEAD, RE-ANIMATOR, ARMY OF DARKNESS, BRAIN-DEAD, and more!

Jonathon Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's cousin, is a Demon Hunter in 16th century London, England--and he's TERRIBLE AT IT! He's much more concerned with stroking his chest hair or playing with his gun. His partner and apprentice is DAVID POE, EDGAR ALLAN POE'S great, great grandpap, a young man who believes in demons about as much as he does Santa Claus. But on this dark night, both Jonathon Shakespeare and David Poe will come face-to-face with their own demonic nightmares. Watch as David Poe gets possessed by a RAVEN like Demon, the RAVENUS DEMONUS, who then forces David to attack his mentor, Jonathon Shakespeare, in an all out brawl to....the death?

And let's just say, for argument's sake, that Shakespeare does indeed manage somehow to escape his apprentice's large, dangerous grip--he still has his own demons to face!

A very early and very weird film I made a few years back. The first fictional film I really edited in post, actually. The visuals were intentionally meant to resemble the late 60s, early 70s, right down the the bright red BLOOD. The music was supposed to resemble a classic 80s HORROR soundtrack in the vein of Halloween (yeah, I know, Halloween was made in '79, but its subsequent sequels were not). The fight scene was supposed to be very vaudvillian, like a 1920s silent comedy in line with Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin. So in short, the film was all over the place, in so many different ways--but on purpose. And that's why I think it works, to this day, but maybe I'm biased.

Like I said, it's a very weird film, and potentially hilarious if you allow yourself to sit through the 9 and some minutes it takes.

So go ahead and do that for me, would you.

P.S. This film was made WITHOUT A SCRIPT and on the spot. I had a lot of the ideas for the film rolling around in my head when we started, but nothing concrete or final.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Evil
• Dead
• Funny
• Weird
• Blood
• 70s
• seventies
• 80s
• eighties
• Army
• of
• Darkness
• Peter
• Jackson
• Shakespeare
• Edgar
• Allan
• Poe
• Demon

[BenjaminAndrewMoore]

Which is to say, comment, not comments. Or look. Not looks. Whichever.

[BenjaminAndrewMoore]

It irritates me when they remove the spam, because then my comments about the spam looks retarded.

[BenjaminAndrewMoore]

Thank you! I will find a hot date now.

[barydbreon]

Wow damn near 2,000 views. If your back for Christmas...dare I say a sequel?

[charlesbwfc]

pure genius the plank bit

[Boleniana]

"Come out, come out, wherever thou art!"

This is so silly... but oddly funny.

[tobyyarwood]

That's brilliant Ben, it must have taken you ages! I've just fininshed my sequel to FlyKiller! 6 hours! ty