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Spike (2008) - The singing, 'poetic' spike monster scrapes the bottom

[ZERO]

+ Worst Movie of the Year

A spiky beast presides over a dirtied redhead victim on this forest-set poster for Robert Beaucage's Spike

  
A car with 3 women and one man drives off a road, but instead of subsequently searching for help the group spread out in different directions; and a very romantic and pathetic spike monster soon turns out to be in love with one of the women.

Spike is written and directed by Robert Beaucage (Closer to Death (2003)).
It is a film that is hopelessly bad right from the start, as none of the 'characters' are given any meat, before we are meant to care exceedingly about them. Spike soon becomes insufferably dull. Worst is arguably its dialog and entire plot, which is conceived so grotesquely without talent that one almost doesn't believe it.
The film's monster poetizes line after line without the shadow of ability for the art form, - and then starts to sing its 'poetry'.
Timing, photography, - everything stinks about Spike.

 

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Watch a 2-minute scene from the film here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
= Uncertain - likely a mega-flop
[Spike premiered 20 June (Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland) and runs 80 minutes. Shooting took place in reportedly freezing temperatures in California in the Spring of 2007. Filming on 16 mm film rather than the much cheaper digital option, Beaucage has offered of his inspirations: "Cupid and Psyche, Hades and Persephone... Beauty and the Beast, as well as horror classics such as Frankenstein and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame". The film was also shown at minor festivals in Masachussets and Los Angeles. It was likely a mega-flop. Beaucage returned with 5 shorts and is announced to helm a project entitled Scream Queens, unaffiliated with the 2015-16 TV-series of the same title. Star Sarah Livingston Evans (who previously played 'Farting Girl' in Look (2007)) has not returned in a feature since. 387 IMDb users have given Spike a 3.2/10 average rating.]

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