Ministry does a captain beyond song on danzigs new movie verotika being released soon.
What song is it? is there a track listing?
He he, I remember reading some reviews on this some time ago and the author said it was unintentionally funny and on par with a modern day Ed Wood film.
It is, apparently, pretty terrible. I had tickets to the LA premiere, but I had a schedule problem and got there too late. Gunnar was there and saw it though.
Pretty much the best movie ever made.
Pretty much.
And, yeah, it’s fucking amazingly bad.
I love it.
I’ll post a review later.
Dancing madly backwards.
Its getting savaged in the press…almost as bad as the other movie he made…
he made another movie? heading to IMDB right now…
I see no other movie he made or wrote or directed… He’s got another one coming out in 2020 but nothing other than an episode of a TV show… Are you thinking of that Porn, Grub girl? Danzig didn’t have anything to do with that. he just owned the label that published the comic… then some porn studio picked it up and made it a movie.
Yeah, this is his first as far as I know. He has a second lined up, some spaghetti western with vampires and the only thing I know is the great Danny Trejo is in it.
Yeah sorry…I must have gotten confused…I could of swore he did some other film somewhere…don’t know who I confused him with…never mind
Verotika review by Gunnar
“SO, WAS VEROTIKA A COMEDY OR WAS IT A HORROR?”
Insert adorable Mexican girl now with a most appropriate “Why not both?” meme, because, yes, it was a horror movie, but if you deny that it is funny, you are a fucking idiot. It was both. And it was absolutely amazing.
Let’s first face the elephant in the room. And by face it, I mean shoot it in it’s fat fucking face so we don’t have to deal with it again. If you showed this movie to some tight-buttoned Hollywood film critic or a humorless Yuppie University art professor, they would probably spend a few hours ripping it to shreds and telling you a bunch of reasons why it was trash. Big fucking deal. Glenn didn’t get one bit of help from Hollywood and he doesn’t need their thanks or acceptance. The same goes for the lazy ass Internet news sites who don’t know what they’re watching when they see it, but most of the time don’t even actually see what they’re writing about (MetalWani, Loudwire, BraveWords, MetalSucks, etc. — yes, I mean exactly you, you lazy fucking walruses!). And we are neither Hollywood film critics nor professors (both of these scummy groups think Woody Allen is high humor, by the way, so if you believe anything they say, you’re an asshole.
I don’t really follow the horror film scene, so saying shit like, “Oh, that’s a nod to Bava!” doesn’t mean shit to me. I’m also not a comic book guy. I’ve never even seen a single issue of Verotika. I do know how comics work, though, and what they look like. I also know what anthologies are and prefer short stories to long singular movies because I am easily bored, and it is very hard to hold my attention for 30 minutes at a time, let alone 2 hours. With that said, I grew up watching stuff like Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Tales From The Crypt. And I also very much enjoyed Elvira for two or more reasons.
I saw Verotika in a similar way. Morella is basically a dark ultra sexy offspring of The Crypt Keeper and Elvira with Alfred Hitchcock as her drunken uncle.
Humor and horror go hand in hand. Add also a bunch of boobs in the mix, and you just won a trifecta. And that’s exactly what Glenn dealt us.
One thing that impressed me the most about “Verotika” was how much it really embodied the look and feel of a comic book. There wasn’t long boring exchanges of dialogue. There were very distinct shots and scenes. As it went from one to the other, I actually envisioned these in a colorful comic as individual images and short lines of speech. A battering ram exploding through a door, a slit neck spraying on a lady’s face (repeatedly), two greasy cops standing over a faceless corpse noting the scene as “pretty grisly”. Most of the scenes were done on sets, it seemed, and that was perfect for doing these comic frame type scenes. Rooms didn’t need to be fully decorated with a bunch of nick-nacks, costumes didn’t have to be pristine and accurate. Glenn used what was available to tell 3 stories and there wasn’t a lot of surplus. I’d love to now get the comic and see how much the movie reflected it because I feel like I’m well acquainted with it now.
I don’t care that the acting was bad or the dialogue weird. I don’t even care that the so-called French dialect was beyond awkward. You knew they were trying to sound French (they even had a linguist work with them) and that was enough because, well, shit, that story was in France, so . . .yeah, we get it. They’re French.
This movie was insanely hilarious to watch. But I don’t think Glenn would get hurt by that and I don’t think that’s a reason to put down the film. It’s a reason to celebrate it. I didn’t hear a single person that didn’t absolutely enjoy the film in all its absurdity.
Glenn mentioned at the Chicago premiere that he and his friends would go to movies and laugh when people got killed. Well, on Tuesday night there were several hundred people laughing and cheering together at a whole lot of people getting killed. We also cheered for the boobs. Because boobs.
Will this be a cult classic? What kind of fucking question is that? It already is a cult classic. Thousands of people were weighing in on this film after the Chicago showing. Most people with an opinion on it hadn’t even seen it, haha. That’s the sign of something great! The same way religious zealots would line up to protest Ozzy records they’ve never heard or movies they’ve never seen, every neck-bearded hipster of cyberspace is now hurrying to get their 5 seconds of borrowed attention.
This movie was fucking awesome. Anyone that didn’t like it either doesn’t like awesome shit, or they’re a fucking liar. We know Glenn hates insincere bullshit. This movie was the absolute epitome of sincere. It was Glenn’s vision made Glenn’s way, and I’m proud to have witnessed it.
In the final story, Contessa, a sexy lady who enjoys bathing in the blood of slaughtered virgins to maintain her sexy ladyness, tells a wolf (yes, there is a live wolf in this movie) “You and I are the same. We like what we like and not everyone understands it.”
Glenn is the wolf.
He likes what he likes.
And if not everyone understands him, so be it.
You don’t need to understand this movie.
You just need to see it.
Amazon has the best deal, dvd,bluray,cd under 20 bucks.
Thanks! I’ll pick it up!
Just seen a preorder for the verotika soundtrack on limited vinyl, on either purple or splatter.
Amazon has the best deal and has the purple version.
Just got the purple vinyl today via amazon, no cover splits during shipment. All killer tracks, so easy to listen to, ministry track is a unique “only get it on this soundtrack” so far anyway.
The album itself overall has this very old school production feel & sound to it…super addictive!
Get this one while you can, most soundtracks fall out of print fast. Still waiting on the bluray/dvd/cd package to release on march 3rd.
Next up…danzig sings elvis, I’m way the all in on this!
Amazon has a vinyl/ cd preorders available, cleopatra doesn’t even have it on their preorder list yet.
Ministry put out “Dancing Madly Backwards” as a single a few years ago, though.
Really thats wild, this is the 1st time I’ve ever heard it and i thought i heard it all!
I’ve never seen it on a box set, compilations,ect.
Do you know if it was a cd single or b side?
I got it from the Ministry Bandcamp page.
It was released digitally and as a 12" single.
The flip side is Peter Hook doing the same song.
https://www.am azon. com/Dancing-Madly-Backwards-PETER-MINISTRY/dp/B07723WVNT
What i found was the mp3 version is a man ray mix. Is this the same on the vinyl version?
If so, the soundtrack version is unique.
I don’t know anything about a Man Ray mix.
The version released as a single and the version on the soundtrack are the same length, 4.47, if that means anything.