Ricky 6For some reason I downloaded this film thinking it was going to be the true story of some silly young metal-head in the 80's, who talks all this bs about being a servant of satan, getting blamed for a murder (because he is a silly young metal-head etc and the 80's hated metal and satan). I took it to my mate's house and we put it on, then within 15min the phones were out looking up trivia about this really bad film.
Firstly it has only ever been screened at some film festival in Montreal where it won the audience award, which, not knowing any more than that, would be a good sign. But the festival was the Fantasia Film Festival, and if sharing a name with an old Disney animated film is not enough of a warning, looking up the festival reveals it was inaugurated by HK kung-fu film and japanimations fan-boys to show-case those two genres.....
Okay, so it hasn't been screened since; was it banned?
No.
The person who obtained finance for the film died before it was released, so officially the film belongs to the bank, who want an amount of money for it. More than anyone thinks it's worth it would seem. Another red flag.
(Just trying to find a running time I came across details of it being screened at two other festivals: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival in 2001 and Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival in 2006)
Anyway, we knew there was going to be a murder sometime soon in the film, that will be good. It took and hour and a half before anything spooky/creepy/scary happened. In in the end he did murder someone, so Ricky was a nutjob after all, and not the victim of a media fuelled lynch-mob looking to demonise the latest popular music.
Don't bother even for the comedy value. There isn't even any good music in it.