Stockholm Film Festival

This film is set in a mad, utterly synthetic world, a twilight country of rock, heading for the Apocalypse. A black comedy about a community on the brink of complete selfdestructiveness, where “deadly space junk” fall from the sky and no-one does anything but watch TV. The villain of the piece compères a television talk show and advocates Positive Mind Management as the solution to every imaginable problem. The hero is the newsboy Alex, who becomes the scapegoat in a political intrigue.

Comment:
“The worst is yet to come…” This graffiti legend, sprayed on a wall in the opening scene, accurately presages what is to follow. Terminal City, a fantasy neighbour of Gotham, is a town where everything has gone off the rails. Director Zale Dalen, inspired by the decay of his home city of Vancouver, has produced a classical American B-mocie on a shoestring - “lowbudget punk” was one American ciritic's term for the genre. In addition to Jello Biafra and D.O.A, the widely noticed soundtrack also includes Evan Johns & The H-Bombs and The Groovaholics among others.

JGR

Medverkande

Peter Breck, Jello Biafra, Germain Houde

Producent

John Conti

Manus

Bill Mullan, Al Thurgood, John Conti, Phil Savath, Ken Lester

Foto

Paul Sarossy

Musik

Douglas Dodd, Jello Biafra, D.O.A

Talat språk

English

 

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