Death of the surf film by Backwordsmen

by Backwordsmen

A postmodern tragic comedy about a sweet californian dreamer (film maker) who meets a mollydook mystic in a sleepy village on the North Coast NSW. They conspire to put the funk back into stoke. Things go awry when they get lost in Hollywood pitching scripts at rat pack parties. After a diabolical series of unfortunate mishaps, they toss all the canisters of celluloid of painstaking research overboard and take a celebrity actor hostage. Commandeering the ‘star’s' 80 foot sloop they head for Hawai’i. Just short of their destination Kauia, with the authorities closing in on them, they scupper the ship, under a crescent moon they make for the shore on a makeshift raft. Death of a Surf Movie pushes Big Wednesday in the direction of Pulp Fiction with startling results, the kung fu surfing sequences are truly to die for. I give it four stars.