Thursday 11 October 2012

The Revenge of Billy the Kid

The McDonald's, Ma and Pa (Gretta and Giles) and their three adult children (Sons Ronald and Ronald, and daughter, Ronald "Ronnie") are the sole inhabitants of a farm island just off the coast of England.
When the family goat starts waning on her milk production, Giles is instructed to take her to the mainland and get her 'a good seeing to' - drunk (as always) on his home made scrumpy, he takes a shine to the goat, and saves them both a boat ride...
When the mutant goat baby is born, Ronald (the girl Ronald - do
Keep up) stops her father from killing him, and names him Billy.
When Pa has finally had enough of Billy's antics, he drowns him in a sack in the lake.
But Billy didn't die...


Well, okay, so I didn't exactly expect masterpiece theatre going in, but jeez!

I did expect gore, and a fun low budget romp - the gore, sadly, was minimal (only one decent kill IMO) and most of the humour was very lame - centring mostly around bodily functions, and the idea that farmers are common, and therefore gross.

Billy himself looked great as a baby, but sadly grows into a cheap-looking Minotaur thing (I know the Minotaur was a bull, not a goat, but honestly, of you told me thins thing was half bull it find it just as believable as half goat).

The problem here, and it's a problem that affects many films of its type, is that very few 'so bad it's good' movies set out to be bad - if you watch, for instance, Troll 2, you can see that everyone involved really believed they were making a film for the ages! When you aim for 'so bad it's good' you more often than not end up with just 'bad'

If you really, REALLY enjoyed Peter Jackson's Bad Taste, you may get a smile or two from this, but Billy is very much an inferior film.



2 comments:

  1. Where in hell do you find these things?

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  2. I came across a review of this one years ago, but never got around to watching it, not sure where.

    I do seem to remember it being reviewed as some kind of ultra-gorefest; which it is not!

    "One eyed monster" (The killer cock movie that lost out to this one as today's film in a Facebook vote) I heard about beck when I used to frequent the Buffy groups on usenet - Amber Benson (Tara in the Buffy TV show) is in it.

    Beyond that, you can find all manner of fun by Google-ing things like "Horror movies to haven't seen" or "Obscure horror movies"

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