Indie Scene: "Yeti: A Love Story," "Street Team Killers," and "The Mental Dead"

Hey all, and welcome to yet another edition of Indie Scene. I know I’ve been gone for two weeks due to being pretty damn busy, but I’m back, and ready to kick some ass. This time around, I’m featuring three films directed by the same director. His name is Adam Deyoe. He decided to send me screeners for three of his films – “Yeti: A Love Story,” “Street Team Massacre,” and the headliner, “The Mental Dead.” By his IMDb credits, it seems like he really likes to work with Will Ferrell (he is involved with the production of “Step Brothers” and finished “Semi-Pro” a while back). Does Adam Deyoe make the Indie Scene cut? Read further…


“Yeti: A Love Story”
2006
BOMB out of ****
Director: Adam Deyoe, Eric Gosselin
Cast: Adam Deyoe, Eric Gosselin, Laura Gascott


If people who only read my Indie Scene articles, you should know that in replacement of a zero star rating, I give the dreaded BOMB rating. The BOMB rating means beyond terrible. BOMB stands for Boy Our Movie Blows, if you didn’t know what it stood for. I have given the BOMB rating to a handful of films – “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” “Freaky Farley,” “Meet the Spartans,” and a few more… but nothing like this film. Oh NOTHING like this film… “Yeti: A Love Story” is without a doubt the worst film that I have seen in my career of reviewing films. Wait no; it is the worst single-serving film that I’ve seen in my life. This won’t only go down as a failure, but a missed opportunity. How many movies of Yetis do you see now? They are the most villainous creatures since mosquitoes! This time around, the Yeti is a homosexual who likes to fuck guys in the cornhole.

I can’t even tell you what the film is about, other than the fact that there is a cult where people sacrificed other people to the Yeti by letting the Yeti hit them from the back with his two-foot crank. Not only is it not entertaining and not easy to sit through, but it doesn’t make any damn sense. And not to mention that “Yeti” is uninteresting. The acting doesn’t impress the least bit and so doesn’t the script. The entire fucking flick is worthless. Does anyone care about horror comedies anymore? It makes me want to scream out, “HEY FUCKNUTS! YOU’RE KILLING OUR GENRE!” The only good thing about “Yeti: A Love Story” is that there are a few hotties here and there, but nothing to get a hard-on about either.


“Street Team Massacre”
2007
** out of ****
Director: Adam Deyoe, Eric Gosselin
Cast: Adam Deyoe, Eric Gosselin, Laura Gascott


“Street Team Massacre” is a massive improvement over “Yeti: A Love Story,” but that’s not saying much. That’s not saying NUTHING! “Street Team Massacre” starts out really, really good. It worked better as a comedy instead of a horror film. Maybe this Deyoe guy should be a comedic director. Maybe I should rethink my statement after watching “Yeti.” Anyway, the film is about two groups of people selling two different kinds of drinks. When one drink has become expired, it causes the drinker to become a zombie-like villain. I’ve told you more about this film than I told you about “Yeti,” you do know that?

“Street Team Massacre” began really great. The first thirty minutes, in my opinion, is Deyoe’s best work in all of his films. He shows the rivalry of the two groups on two sides – one being hilarious and the other being threatening. It works as a great little pissing contest, but it’s a better pissing contest than “Alpha Dog,” and I fucking love that movie. Anyway, once the zombies start to come, the movie falters and comes to a screeching halt. The acting is better than Deyoe’s previous film and it shows actual emotion. Deyoe, as much as I hated his previous film, has a talent at directing. For an indie filmmaker, he does a brilliant job at tracking the camera in some shots. “Street Team Massacre” is a great improvement, but not a great movie.


“The Mental Dead”
2003
* out of ****
Director: Adam Deyoe
Cast: Brie Bouslaugh, Konrad Brattke, Tim Cluff


The best part about “The Mental Dead” is that it is only sixty minutes long. If you can sit through a sixty minute movie, you should be perfectly fine while watching it. It has some stunning direction, and some decent performances by a few zombies, but other than that, “The Mental Dead” is fucking terrible. Oh, and did I mention that the film spun-off to another film? You may have heard of it. It is called “Yeti: A Love Story.” Jesus Christ, you can put the three films together and have a night in hell. Which I did just yesterday. Ahh the memories.

“The Mental Dead…” yeah… what the FUCK about the movie? I don’t even know what was going on. Most of the film is dark, so some of the stuff you can’t even see. However, the direction was literally perfect. That is the reason alone why I’m giving it a star. This Adam Deyoe guy can write a decent movie to save his ass, but when it comes to shooting the movie, he goes Spike Lee and fucking films it perfectly. “The Mental Dead” has some nice little makeup, but you don’t really notice it until the end of the movie. To sum it up, it’s not nearly as bad as “Yeti,” not nearly as good as “Street Team,” but still fucking sucks.


That’s it for this week’s edition of Indie Scene. I’ll return next week with a super-big edition of Indie Scene, where I plan Indie Cleanup. Stay tuned…