Dead Weekend

Sometime in the near future a city in the US is threatened by a big earthquake and the population is asked to calmly leave the city. Those who remain will risk being taken for looters and shot by the police. However, the supposed catastrophe turns out to be a bluff by True World Forces, the military power responsible for security. The bluff is carried out in order to leave the TWF in peace to look for and capture an alien who has been sighted in the city. TWF's leader uses the newly established state of emergency as a longed for and planned excuse for the military to wipe out the trash of the city. The alien turns out to be a woman, Amelia, who has an ability to change her looks. The young military Weed sees her during patrol and falls in love in what he believes to be a beautiful woman. After having fallen in love with a number of her personalities Weed discovers that while he is exhausted by sex, as usual, her energy seems to increase from the sex act. Weed quickly accepts her rapid transformations and sees her as the perfect woman who you never grow tired of. However, it turns out that the gift is a disease from her planet. Weed's boss, the tough puritanical military careerist Payne, follows them one night. He eventually figures out that the woman has to be the alien that TWF is looking for and he informs Weed. Amelia disappears in the city, and Weed frantically looks for her in the deserted city where the army fights the remaining hooligans. A zany DJ, who exposed TWF's fraud at an early stage, helps bring them together. Dead Weekend is a beautifully shot and rather ambitiously staged story which turns out to be a mix between Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968) and Just Jaeckin's Emmanuelle (1974). Eroticism with a split personality, ignorant fear of strangers and a brief discussion about AIDS in a sci-fi movie which ends somewhere between Snow White and Rambo. The story about the impossible relationship between the lovesick soldier Weed and the sex-starved alien Amelia is described by the director Poe in the following manner: ''Anyway, the humor/wit/irony was supposed to send up a male's search for the perfect companion in a paranoid universe''. There is a perfect companion for all of us, but sometimes you need a space ship to reach him or her.

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Stephen Baldwin, David Rasche, Alexis Arquette: Producent
Larry Estes: Manus
Joel Rose: Foto
GaryTiesche: Musik
Steve Hunter