Released in the same year as the Elm Street remake, Simon Rumleys movie would, in a fair world, have blown that turkey out of the water and bagged a few awards in the process. Its a simple story of how 3 very different people meet and how their choices result in escalating violence. When aspiring rocker Franki (Marc Senter) realizes hes contracted HIV from the promiscuous Erica (Amanda Fuller), he snaps and kidnaps her, little realizing that she has a platonic friendship with Nate (Noah Taylor), an Iraq War veteran skilled in interrogation. Billed as a slacker revenge movie, Red White & Blue is, simply put, the best written, best acted and best directed movie youve never seen. After playing a few festivals, it disappeared before eventually resurfacing on DVD with absolutely no fanfare whatsoever the critics were too busy gushing over Paranormal Activity and Insidious to notice.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
