dear god no

Local atlanta film maker Jimmy bickert 's low budget homage to the biker exploitation films of seventies " dear god no " is a blood splattered camp fest. also Bickert not only wrote and directed but stars in the film. it's fun drive in -fare , i like my grindhouse a little more serious but enjoyed it more than over hyped, hobo with a shotgun. while i can appreciate them working with in the confines of their low budget diy ethics ed wood it's not. it stands shoulder to shoulder in the gore department with films like hachet 2 and is more well made than say zombie christ. the sound production is the main problem as bits of dialogue often sound distant and mumbled , this flaw is followed by acting and script...mostly the heavy handed dialogue, show don't tell is thrown out the window, the script could have used a few rewrites, obviously not considered a key component to the film, nor was the audience in attendance there to see anything but boobs and blood, both of which would have made more of an impact with character development. run bitch run did a much better job in this regards and the nudity when it came into play was more effective. the rape scenes seemed obligatory to the genre and carried no sense of menace, though to their credit there were alot of ...oh no are they going to go there moments but mainly from the violence which seemed to be the key components to the rape as well as rest of the movie. Of course iim a lover or rape scenes and find them to be highly erotic and felt the eroticism was absent and never felt the girls were properly debased in a sexual manner.
where the movie shined was the more experimental moments use to capture psychedelia and the camera work used to transition scenes, i think if this attention to detail had been applied through out and perhaps more of a grainy filter and grime to the lighting this would sit well next to the movies it pays tribute to . the lighting at times was too bright and gave the film more of a john waters feel. the mish mash of styles was wink at rob zombie and could have stood to have been expanded upon. a fun move that could use a little more love in the post production dept and could be a classic in grindhouse unless left as is .