AFM: Faye Dunaway Battles The Undead Corpse Of Her Would-Be Teen Boyfriend In FLICK

Posted by Todd Brown at 6:11pm.

Posted in Film News , Comedy, Horror, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand, AFM 2007.

Yeah. How’s that for a concept? And it gets better: undead would-be lover derives his power from the awesome goodness that is 1950’s radio-broadcast rockabilly. A Welsh production getting its world premiere at the upcoming AFM, Flick gets full marks for concept, though I’m still trying to find any actual production stills or footage from the film to see if they’ve pulled it off. Here are some selected quotes from AV Pictures wildly over-descriptive and spoilerific synopsis:

They said Rock ‘n’ Roll was dead, but Johnny’s back, alive and killing in this quirky and stylistic horror pic. The Rocky Horror Show for the 21st Century has arrived and it’s reborn as this darkly comedic slasher movie!

After months of battling with his stutter and rehearsing his chat-up lines, Johnny plucks up the courage to ask Sally to dance with him. But his best attempts leave him rebuffed and humiliated, the victim of a severe beating at the fists and feet of his contemporaries. Crawling away to lick his wounds, he watches Sally ‘dirty dancing’ with his chief tormentor, Creeper Martin. As the music plays, the room begins to spin and Johnny’s thoughts become wilder and wilder. Very quickly his humiliation turns to rage and he cracks. Rampaging across the dance floor he extracts his revenge. A bloodbath ensues and after killing and maiming his oppressors, Johnny abducts Sally and flees the building. With a lynch mob in pursuit, Johnny struggles to keep a terrified Sally in the back seat of the car. Loosing control of the vehicle he veers off the road and into the river. Sally escapes with her life, but Johnny is sent to a watery grave. His vehicle and body are not recovered until forty years later, when a boat dredging the river snags the old car and brings it to the surface with Johnny still at the wheel. Only his face remains ghoulishly human - exposed through his tattered clothes is a corpse stripped to the bone by the catfish ...