My Bloody Banjo

Peltzer is a defeated man. That's his lot in life and it guides his every decision. Many a good horror movie has a weak-link character whose role is to make the irrational decisions necessary to forward the plot: Harry Cooper in Return of the Living Dead, Miguel Ferrer in Deep Star Six. Now imagine the lead character in a story being such a man. That's the strong point of this movie. It leaves the viewer squirming in their seat, helpless as we ever could be. There's no use shouting at the screen, no point cursing the character; he's going to do what he has to do and you can only enjoy the train wreck. As typical per a Troma-style movie, you have unrelenting bullies who utterly humiliate the most vulnerable characters. People you want to die the most horrible deaths imaginable, but I don't want to spoil that. Cool points go to the writer for dropping Henenlotter's name on one of the facilities.

Really enjoyed this movie, all kinds of wrong in a really good way. Really funny with solid performances, loved the random cameos.

Without a doubt one of the best indie films of the last ten years, a real piece of art. Loads of blood and gore and sick things said and done, a true tribute to the 80's from someone (Liam the director) who clearly knows what he is doing.

Banjo's cool poster strongly got my attention when I had read someone's review from freightfest UK last year. I had learned Laurence R. Harvey and Vito Trigo are casted in it back then. Both are my favorite actors. I thought I should check it once released.

My biggest question was.. what's Banjo? Why is it called Banjo in the first place? I know banjo is one of the musical instruments. But what's all about this film? I've been wondering about it. I had to wait until I could see it.

I admit that I couldn't get the meaning of Banjo in my first watching. I was a bit confused. I mumbled like, "Yeah, it's a fun flick but I still don't get it. Why Banjo? hmm... the director seems like a big fan of 80s. There should be the hidden meaning which should be cool. I need to find out. Okay. Let's watch it again!"

I am a good English learner who always try hard! After seeing it twice and learned what "banjo string" is, OHHHH! I finally figured! Everything totally makes sense to me! Hahahahahaha! Liam is crazy! Someone once said, "Knowledge is power". It's very true. Knowledge makes your life fun.

Banjo became my favorite film. It is one of the 80s homage kind of film but definitely it's not only that. In some part, it's very Tromatic. In some part, it has the comedic feeling of Dunder Mifflin. I woudn't be surprised if Dwight Schrute shows up on the screen and starts to make conversation with those fun actors.

Yes, those actors did amazing job. I wish Laurence could have had more time to play. How could he act like that? I thought Kate (his lovely girl friend) can't see it without crying because the guy he's acting is so miserable. I thought she might not like it. How could she keep watching her boyfriend being bullied awfully like that? I said what I felt to my buddy Daiju just after seeing it. He hasn't seen the film but replied me like, "Here's my guess. She would laugh a lot if Laurence is chuckling next to her when they watch it together." I hope he's right.

And Vito! I became a fan of him since I watched Scicene Team. His acting is always funny. Very strong and funny. All other actors are vividly playing their roles.

I once heard that all crazy people are calm and peace in their mind. Peltzer Arbuckle's case seems different. He is forced to deal with tons of mess in his life - job, romance and the troublesome imaginary friend Ronnie. Things are getting complicated/upside down. His mind goes insane. Is Ronnie a savior for Peltzer? Or devil? Or just a friend? I can't tell. But anyway, on the ending, Peltzer became happy - completely calm and peace. So I'd say it's a happy ending.

This film is a unique tale of romance in a office. You know man meets woman, then his friend turns up one day.

I do like this kind of British horror film. It made me laugh, it made me look away in parts and it did not take itself to seriously . The effects, sounds and sets are good some of the cinematography was not as good the comedy did make up for that.

You can see some nods to other film styles but you kind of expect that in this kind of film. I would of liked to know some of the who's and whys to move the story along. As this is the directors first feature film all I can say is well done please carry on.

This low budget British splatter movie takes place in the fictional town of Henenlotter (which doesn't sound British in the slightest but is a nod to American horror director Frank H). Peltzer Arbuckle, along with his colleagues, is bullied at work by his tyrant of a boss Mr Sawyer, he is also a failure in the sack with his drop dead gorgeous girlfriend Deetz (played by the stunningly buxom Dani Thompson). He finds a Ouija board and calls up an imaginary friend from his childhood called Ronnie, together they put a very gory end to Peltzer's tormentors. I had not heard of this movie until very recently but it came up as a recommendation online, I bought a very reasonably priced copy of it on DVD and yeah, I enjoyed it. Sensitive viewers best give this one a wide berth, it contains very strong language and extreme gore, the bloody penis scene being the highlight, there is also plenty of sex (though no nudity, apart from a fake torn penis, ouch!). Generally speaking I felt that the cast did a good job, however I wasn't very keen on the demonic Ronnie. He certainly looks creepy but his constant crudeness was a bit too much, he also has a weird accent, I guess he's meant to be American but the actor's English accent could clearly be heard. At least American actors were cast as other American characters, Lloyd "Troma" Kaufman has a small cameo as a doctor, which was nice. This was the directional debut of Liam Regan and credit to him and his team. My 6/10 score means that it just falls short of being a good film, however I'd score them 8/10 for effort. Beware of fake 10/10 reviews! And finally the end credits have what must be one of the best declarations ever - "No penises were harmed, severed, torn or snapped during the making of this movie" - awesome!!