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Bristol Bad Film Club unleashes Silent Rage in aid of the UN Refugee Agency
Got a bad guy whose ass needs kicking? Chuck Norris is your man. One of the most charmless ’80s action heroes (and that’s a pretty crowded field, which also includes Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme), he certainly ticks all the boxes, being a Christian fundamentalist Republican karate champ and Creationist who opposes same-sex marriage. Back in 1982, this big wooden patriot starred in the agreeably preposterous Silent Rage, whose unimprovable shout line was: ‘Science created him. Now, Chuck Norris must destroy him!’
The absurd lunkathon is May’s Bristol Bad Film Club selection, with all profits going to the UN Refugee Agency, which is currently assisting those forcibly displaced from Ukraine and neighbouring countries.
Only the kitchen sink seems to be missing from the plot elements of this action/martial arts/neo-sci-fi/slasher mash-up, which, as Variety noted, “seems as if it were made with a demographics sampler entitled ’10 Sleazy Ways To Cash In On The Exploitation Market.’ The only trouble is the filmmakers have employed all ten techniques in one picture. The result is a combination horror-kung-fu-oater-woman-in-peril-mad-scientist film with more unintentional laughs than probably appear possible in the space of 100 minutes.”
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Our oaken hero plays a smalltown Texan sheriff who finds he has to take on a Frankenstein’s monster in the form of a mentally ill man (hey – nobody said this was going to be woke) who’s been turned into an “unstoppable terror” by a crazed boffin. For added excitement, the film also includes Chuck’s first – and only – sex scenes.
The screening takes place on May 4 at the Bristol Improv Theatre. Tickets, price £5, are available here.
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