Several years ago, one of my college friends invited a bunch of us over to her house to watch bad movies, as she’d done several nights before. But this time was different. She found a movie through a clip posted online; I want to say it might have been in an Everything is Terrible collection but I can’t rightly recall. But at a previous movie night she showed us a clip of this scene.
Needless to say, we were intrigued. And then she played… Geteven.
It had it all. It was a vanity project, written, directed and starring the same dude, with plenty of martial arts buttkicking in a back tank top (which was the style at the time), a plain-looking protagonist who lands a woman way out of his league, bizarre acting, a song, and most importantly, satanic rituals with human sacrifice. We were drunk and laughing and screaming and it was amazing.
This movie has gotten a bit more exposure since its feature on RLM’s Best of the Worst. Has anybody else seen this movie? Have you done the Shimmy Slide?
I love GetEven. FYI, it was just released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome under “Champagne and Bullets.” The disc has all three cuts of the film, plus a commentary track by John De Hart. Yes, I own it. No, I’m not proud. Yes, I have forced others to watch it.
