GRINDHOUSE SHORTS (2011)
Directed by:
Mike Pecci

Starring:
Eliska Suicide ... Tanya (cold hard cash)
Odette Suicide ... Deane (cold hard cash)
Rydell Suicide (stray bullet)

Country: USA
Runtime: n/a
AKA: Mike Pecci's Grindhouse Shorts
       
   
       

This is a collection of three of Pecci’s very short films. The box claims: It’s Grindhouse the way it’s supposed to be - full of sex, violence and attitude! The main "actresses" are the tattoo clad Suicide Girls. These short films may be the scrapings at the bottom of the grindhouse barrel, which means all that’s left are soiled condoms stuck to dried semen.

Cold Hard Cash is about two dykes, who may be prostitutes, and are involved in a violent criminal life. They have been behaving bad and need to pay some sort of a debt to a shadowy, fat undisclosed crime boss. They are sent to steal a briefcase full of thousands of dollars but get themselves into trouble. They manage to steal the cash but after a heavy dose of lesbian sex in what appears to be a dilapidated porn studio, they get upset with each other and fight over the money. This is not so much a short film but a scene from a film. There is a lot of nudity but it’s all garbage and pointless without a decent story.

Capture Device was a tad bit better yet still poor. Its about one girl who posses for nude photographs and the degradation of that type of life. That’s at least how I interpreted the piece. It’s just one girl in a room who realizes she’s being video taped. There’s some artsy editing and it’s all shot in black and white. Maybe adding a drug addict boyfriend who smacks her around would have thickened out the segment.

Stray Bullet isn’t even a film. It’s one girl who’s a sniper. She takes off her bloody clothes in a house and poses half nude with guns until she’s shot in the head and killed by a stray bullet. What the hell type of crap is this? One actress posing - that’s all there is. Watch out, this Suicide Girl is uncensored and unexciting!

I recommend you stay far away from this garbage. If you love grindhouse films, find yourself something from the 70s to watch. Pecci had access to the Suicide Girls, so he took them and photographed them half naked, wearing different outfits. I doubt there was even a script written for any of these shorts. This feels like Suicide Girls promotional material. I don’t see a filmmaker making a movie here. These "films" are an insult to authentic grindhouse cinema. This was a complete waste of my time.

- Jorge Antonio Lopez

 

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