The_paranoid_android

A low-budget comedy/horror with minimal sets, costumes, actors, and locations, and yet "The VelociPastor" makes use of every element to it's fullest extent. Solid comedic writing with even a better understanding of cinematic techniques for laughs that even professional productions don't do really highlight the surprising amount of quality in the film. The film is a breezy 75-minutes long, blurring the lines between scenes that appear stretched out to reach a running time for a joke (which always works well) versus being there to justify the running time.

The editing and writing are used to great effect, especially for the limitations of the production. Special shout-out to one particular editing sequence that was downright gorgeous, and surprisingly experimental with colors and editing. The actors completely nail the comedic-then-serious tone with fantastic results. Alyssa Kempinski, Daniel Steere, Jiechang Yang and Fernando Pacheco De Castro are delightful in the story nailing their comedic beats. And Greg Cohan really sells the role of a Pastor conflicted with the desire to commit violence against evil while also suffering from loss and also being a dinosaur sometimes.

This one absolutely ludicrous movie made for, according to what I could find, $35,000 with a running time that barely squeaks in at 75 minutes has given me more laughs in creative ways than entire swaths of overly-produced big-budget comedy shows and films. The scene of the group of Ninjas fighting Doug as a dinosaur in broad daylight is one of most hilarious things I've ever seen.

I want to see Brendan Steere get a decent budget for another project, as I think he could really show the world that he has a the comedic film master of Scott Sanders, Sam Raimi, and Edgar Wright.

Not really worth going out of your way for, but not particularly bad either.