Deathgasm

Deathgasm
 

Deathgasm tells the story of two teenage, metal-head, outcasts in a small town who mistakenly summon an ancient demon by playing music they found in the home of an aged, long lost metal legend.

When the main character, Brodie (played by Milo Cawthorne), meets his fellow band mate Zakk (James Blake) in a record store, there is a wonderful moment where the two size each other up as they silently lift metal albums up to show the other what they like. This scene embodies the spirit of Deathgasm: just like the characters know their metal, the filmmakers know their metal, horror, and humor and show this to the viewer with every scene. The kills, the constant humor, the blood, the lighting all culminate to create the biggest dark party unlike any other movie I've seen all year, Every scene is filmed to make you laugh, make you smile a little evil grin and it succeeds with this on every level! It's a Night of the Demons meets Lords of Salem metal mash-up splat fest that tears shit up from the opening to the closing credits.

Brodie is not the living stereotype that his metal image portrays; he is polite, smart, well spoken, and sits in the park licking ice cream cones. And yet he is all metal in his view of the world, full of rage and pain and a sense of un-belonging. It's a brilliant character and a spot-on, strong, and sympathetic performance from Milo Cawthorne.

Zakk, on the other hand, is the stereotypical metal-head. He's rude, crude, careless, and a bit of an overall oaf. He's also superbly played by James Blake and is pretty damn funny. Kimberly Crossman plays Medina and has the likeness of metal goddess Lita Ford and looks like the Prom Queen of every high school in America while maintaining a sweet innocence at the same time. She's perfectly cast and rounds out the strong ensemble in Deathgasm.

The film also looks absolutely fantastic. It definitely made the best of it's low budget and every penny spent can be seen on screen. The effects, gore, and make-up are all top notch and wonderfully over the top in the vein of Evil Dead 2 and Dead Alive. Hats off to the entire effects team involved with the film for creating a great visual product for the viewers to feast their eyes on.

My one and only complaint about Deathgasm was the voice of the demon at times was a bit hard to fully understand. It had a great slurred, throaty, scratched vinyl sound but I had trouble catching every word.

Deathgasm is the dark side and party side of metal, it mixes humor and horror flawlessly as it focuses on little moments that carry the film from laughter to cringing. Every frame contains a studded leather jacket, metal music, crude humor and references to Satan. Deathgasm is one hell of bloody headbanging, rocking movie and if you haven't seen it, right now is the perfect time to put it on!