It's fun when you find trailers floating around on the web of movies you haven't even heard of before. Such as the case with these two.
The first one, The Perfect Sleep, is a modern noir movie that looks as cool as it is gorgeous. The images in the trailer alone are enough to excite, but the official synopsis makes it sound even cooler:
Think of the hard-boiled world of film noir: the world of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade, a world of femme fatales, a world of shadows. Now imagine this world populated with characters from tragic Russian novels like those by Dostoevsky: tormented figures suffering through harsh circumstance. This unique world provides the foundation for the dark and vivid dreamscape of “The Perfect Sleep.”
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever wanted; the one thing he can never have.
There is no discernible reason for him to come back to this ruthless city, save one. She still lives here, she is in danger, and he – a man gifted in the art of killing – may be the only one who can save her. Waiting for him are deadly men who would like nothing more than to see him die a painful death. Standing at their forefront is the formidable Nikolai, the man who raised him and just might be his father.
To protect Porphyria, this unnamed man will return to a life of torment and torture. He will face off against the father figure he turned his back on so many years ago. He will revisit this existence full of people imprisoned by their desire, their history, and their very blood; a world where the only thing keeping you from happiness is yourself, the world of The Perfect Sleep.
Where can we see this movie already?!
The second trailer doesn't have the slick production value or the artistic eye of The Perfect Sleep, but it's arguably as convincing in its own way. Some of you might remember from a few years ago of a notorious little DTV movie called Monsturd. Can you guess in one try what the movie is about?
Well, the makers of Monsturd are back with a sequel to it called Retardead. Again, a straight forward title. But just to humor them, here's the official synopsis on Retardead:
Evil has come to the Butte County Institute of Special Education, and its students will never be the same. After surviving a battle to the death with his own monstrous creation, Dr. Stern returns to continue his horrible research in this blood-drenched sequel to the cult hit "Monsturd." Armed with a fatal hyper-intelligence serum, the mad doctor transforms a quiet community into an army of flesh-eating zombies. It's a showdown of limb-chopping, head-bursting proportions as Stern's nemesis, F.B.I. agent Susan Hannigan, and the local sheriff's department take on the zombie plague in the ultimate battle royale.
Obviously these guys are not afraid of pushing the limits of bad taste, but hey, that's exactly why we all love straight to video movies. Where else can you find crap like these?
