Week 7: Lesbian Vampire Killers
Their sketch show has been roundly trashed but will James Corden and Mathew Horne score a hit with their big screen efforts? The next film up for discussion in The Independent Film Forum is Lesbian Vampire Killers.
A cult classic in the mould of Shaun of the Dead or a lifeless misogynistic vehicle for the two stars? Add your comments below and we'll print the best in the newspaper next week.
Here's a trailer...
The Independent's Anthony Quinn was certainly not a fan:
Oh dear. Loath as I am to kick a comedy duo when they're down, there's no plausible defence for this slapdash feature film by Mathew Horne and James Corden, any more than there is for their much-panned TV sketch show. A loveable pair of mates in Gavin and Stacey, here they have flagrantly overstretched their appeal, and now look in danger of becoming the Hale and Pace de nos jours... The comedy consists mostly in a lot of blokey swearing and Scooby-Doo-style running and gurning, the latter supplied by Paul McGann (above with Horne and Corden) as an exorcist vicar. It's pretty woeful, and unimaginably boring."
The reviewer for Screen International wasn't terribly impressed:
"Lesbian Vampire Killers is so disappointing because there is such a strong tradition of British horror films and horror comedies (Carry On Screaming, Shaun Of The Dead etc) from which screenwriters Paul Hupfield and Stewart Williams might have drawn inspiration. Their lamentable script always settles for the easy comic options of profanity, bad taste and copious amounts of body fluids... Lesbian Vampire Killers is mercifully brief and easily forgotten. The fact that Corden and Horne didn't write the script may mean that they can avoid some of the blame for its inadequacies and make a further attempt at big screen success. On the other hand, you do have to question what they saw in the material in the first place."
Nor was the website, Eye for Film:
"Films rarely come as lowest common denominator as this reductive Hammer parody, where wit is replaced with endless knob jokes, and where there are far more mammaries than memories on offer."
Over to you. Time to have your say...
A cult classic in the mould of Shaun of the Dead or a lifeless misogynistic vehicle for the two stars? Add your comments below and we'll print the best in the newspaper next week.
Here's a trailer...
Click to viewThe Independent's Anthony Quinn was certainly not a fan:
Oh dear. Loath as I am to kick a comedy duo when they're down, there's no plausible defence for this slapdash feature film by Mathew Horne and James Corden, any more than there is for their much-panned TV sketch show. A loveable pair of mates in Gavin and Stacey, here they have flagrantly overstretched their appeal, and now look in danger of becoming the Hale and Pace de nos jours... The comedy consists mostly in a lot of blokey swearing and Scooby-Doo-style running and gurning, the latter supplied by Paul McGann (above with Horne and Corden) as an exorcist vicar. It's pretty woeful, and unimaginably boring."
The reviewer for Screen International wasn't terribly impressed:
"Lesbian Vampire Killers is so disappointing because there is such a strong tradition of British horror films and horror comedies (Carry On Screaming, Shaun Of The Dead etc) from which screenwriters Paul Hupfield and Stewart Williams might have drawn inspiration. Their lamentable script always settles for the easy comic options of profanity, bad taste and copious amounts of body fluids... Lesbian Vampire Killers is mercifully brief and easily forgotten. The fact that Corden and Horne didn't write the script may mean that they can avoid some of the blame for its inadequacies and make a further attempt at big screen success. On the other hand, you do have to question what they saw in the material in the first place."
Nor was the website, Eye for Film:
"Films rarely come as lowest common denominator as this reductive Hammer parody, where wit is replaced with endless knob jokes, and where there are far more mammaries than memories on offer."
Over to you. Time to have your say...