"Killing Zelda Sparks" DVD Review -- Written by Anthony Thurber

Killing Zelda Sparks
Year: 2008
Director: Jeff Clickman
Stars: Sarah Carter, Vincent Kartheiser, Geoffrey Arend
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Lightyear Entertainment / Shoreline Entertainment
Running Time: 95 Mins
Review Rating: 5 Stars
Official Website: http://www.killingzeldasparks.com/



Before hitting DVD Killing Zelda Sparks played at the 2007 San Diago Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and the Cinefest Film Festival. The film is about Terry Seville (Jeffery Arend) who receives a phone call at 2am from his best friend, Craig (Vincent Kartheiser) who’s nervous that his ex girlfriend Zelda Sparks (Sarah Carter) is back in town. That’s not good news for Craig, as wherever Zelda Sparks appears chaos usually ensues. He is then drawn to her like a flame, even thought he has currently in a relationship with his girlfriend. Soon Zelda start to embarrass Craig anyway she can until the point where he can’t take it anymore. So, Terry and Craig hatch a plan to finally to revenge on Zelda Sparks, but the prank turn deadly when one of them ends up dead. The film is based on the play “Barstool Words”, which was written by Josh Ben Friedman (who also wrote the film adaptation) and directed by Jeff Clickman (the film’s director). Colm Feroe also co-stars in the film.

I had had a feeling that I was going to like this film, when I saw the trailer on the film’s Myspace page. Killing Zelda Sparks is a smoking hot dark comedy. Director Jeff Clickman does a good directing job here. I liked, how he gets all the characters mannerism down to perfection especially with the title character, Zelda Sparks. She really comes as a character that looks like a character that could have been easily found in a pulp film. Clickman’s direction of the actors was very good. The actors were energetic and felt passionate with the material at hand, as it showed in the end product. There were also a couple of very good supporting performances from both Sarah Carter and Colm Feroe. Sarah Carter was nothing but hot here. She does a great job making her character that sexy vixen that gets what she wants. It is a very important part to the film’s success because if that character weren’t that way, then the purpose of the film would have changed drastically to the point that it wouldn’t work well. So this is why this is part of the film’s success. Also, Feroe was great here in a small role. I liked the way he delivered his lines, as it felt like watching one of those monologue films where a performer goes on a stage and goes on talking at a fast pace for ninety minutes. That’s what it felt and it was good, as I like those types of films.

The screenplay written by Joel Ben Friedman was very funny and entertaining. He tells this story very well here. The story was interesting because of the characters were interesting. He goes a great job with writing the dark humor. The humor was very funny and dark. This is the film that I wanted In Burges (a dark comedy which was released early in the year) to be, because in that film I felt uneasy with the subplots and the fact that the characters were unlikeable. This film, I didn’t feel that way one bit. He also develops the characters were well, as they all were interesting and entertaining.

Killing Zelda Sparks is one hot and funny film that will put under the spell of her wicked ways.

DVD Extras

Behind the scenes: From Stage to Screen

Trailers