Famed “Mother” crooner and former ex-lead-singer of the Misfits Glenn Danzig has finally directed his first film, and of course it’s a horror anthology. The movie’s called Verotika, and while I’m slightly disappointed he didn’t name it Die Die My Darling, this absolutely bonkers minute-long trailer makes up for it.
The trailer doesn’t really tell you what the movies about, per se, but it definitely gives you some gorey, self-indulgent, eerily terrifying B-movie vibes—though whether it’s genuinely terrifying, or just terrifyingly bad, well, the reviews so far lean towards the latter. Alex McLevy at the AV Club caught the film last summer at the Cinepocalypse Film Festival in Chicago, and his review is a work of art in and of itself:
Within the first 60 seconds, a narrator pokes out a woman’s eyes with her fingers, and it works all too well as a metaphor for what this movie puts the audience through.
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This wasn’t quite the willful misunderstanding of a Tommy Wiseau, but it wasn’t far off.
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Glenn Dan-zigged where he should have Dan-zagged, and for that we should all be profoundly grateful.
Verotika will be available on Vimeo on-demand starting February 25, with a 3-disc collector’s set to follow in March.