Skullduggery (or its many alternative titles) seeks to cash in on the early 1980s backlash.
A group of college students get together to play a D&D board game led by an older gentleman (who turns out to be the devil).
One of these players - Adam - comes from a long line of cursed men (starting with a king who betrayed the devil).
While Adam is helping out at a community college talent show, he remembers his ancestral curse and starts killing people.
Adam seems to think that some of his victims are villains fron the D&D game, but other times its seems that Adam is under a demonic spell, or mentally ill or something else.
Sometimes Adam seems to have command of several different magical powers, while other times he seems like a helpess puppet.
He frequency changes into different costumes, can tranform theatre props into real weapons and women seem to instantly want to have sex (sometimes very kinky sex) with him.
The devil - pretending to be two different men (a older D&D gamer and a rich man named, Dr. Evil) - seems confused about what he wants Adam to do.
He wants Adam to kill people, he wants Adam to join some sort of Satantic cult, and he also wants Adam to kill most of cult members...for...some reason....
The film lets us watch a large chunk of the talent show (a weird show... lacking in talent) and the party hosted by Dr. Evil (an even weirder event that seems to suggest the devil likes to hang with geeks, nerds, stoners, and wanna-be young intellectuals.
I suspect that the director and writer thought that they were making a clever, avent garde film with a topical, supernatural twist.
Mostly, the film is hard to follow, with lots of weird characters and scenes that don't really seem to make sense.
When the film pauses to make a point, its either too University pretentious to be taken seriously, or the film tries to make a joke that ain't really funny.
One of the D&D players makes so many lame sexual innuendo jokes, he comes off as more shallow then a certain character from the Family Guy series.
The local hospital has a doctor who has sex with nurses, while dressed in a Gorilla costume. Why?
A nurse leaves work to press Adams pants. She then tries to seduce him by pretending to be his mother. Why?
The film pauses backstage during the talent show to show us two effemiate gay characters who exist as a "arent them gay people funny" joke.
Later on, at the party, two gay characters act as door bouncers who (for some reason) try to rape a woman in a threeway. Adam kills all three with a harpon gun.
Granted, Adam becomes an effective killer (it helps when the police are mostly inept, and people leave dangerous weapons lying around or hanging up on walls).
What else is good in the film?
The music is actually pretty good (albeit often out of place).
Skullduggery will probably be enjoyed by people who want to "riff" it.
The Spoony Experiment has done so, and more efforts will follow.
A group of college students get together to play a D&D board game led by an older gentleman (who turns out to be the devil).
One of these players - Adam - comes from a long line of cursed men (starting with a king who betrayed the devil).
While Adam is helping out at a community college talent show, he remembers his ancestral curse and starts killing people.
Adam seems to think that some of his victims are villains fron the D&D game, but other times its seems that Adam is under a demonic spell, or mentally ill or something else.
Sometimes Adam seems to have command of several different magical powers, while other times he seems like a helpess puppet.
He frequency changes into different costumes, can tranform theatre props into real weapons and women seem to instantly want to have sex (sometimes very kinky sex) with him.
The devil - pretending to be two different men (a older D&D gamer and a rich man named, Dr. Evil) - seems confused about what he wants Adam to do.
He wants Adam to kill people, he wants Adam to join some sort of Satantic cult, and he also wants Adam to kill most of cult members...for...some reason....
The film lets us watch a large chunk of the talent show (a weird show... lacking in talent) and the party hosted by Dr. Evil (an even weirder event that seems to suggest the devil likes to hang with geeks, nerds, stoners, and wanna-be young intellectuals.
I suspect that the director and writer thought that they were making a clever, avent garde film with a topical, supernatural twist.
Mostly, the film is hard to follow, with lots of weird characters and scenes that don't really seem to make sense.
When the film pauses to make a point, its either too University pretentious to be taken seriously, or the film tries to make a joke that ain't really funny.
One of the D&D players makes so many lame sexual innuendo jokes, he comes off as more shallow then a certain character from the Family Guy series.
The local hospital has a doctor who has sex with nurses, while dressed in a Gorilla costume. Why?
A nurse leaves work to press Adams pants. She then tries to seduce him by pretending to be his mother. Why?
The film pauses backstage during the talent show to show us two effemiate gay characters who exist as a "arent them gay people funny" joke.
Later on, at the party, two gay characters act as door bouncers who (for some reason) try to rape a woman in a threeway. Adam kills all three with a harpon gun.
Granted, Adam becomes an effective killer (it helps when the police are mostly inept, and people leave dangerous weapons lying around or hanging up on walls).
What else is good in the film?
The music is actually pretty good (albeit often out of place).
Skullduggery will probably be enjoyed by people who want to "riff" it.
The Spoony Experiment has done so, and more efforts will follow.