"Gone the Way of Flesh" Review - Written by Anthony Thurber

Gone the Way of Flesh
Year: 2009
Directors: Jason Martinko and Jordan McMillan
Studio: Tempe Entertainment/ Cut n’ Run Productions
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Running Time: 56 Mins.






Please take this review, as a Public Service Announcement.

“Gone the Way of Flesh” is a film about a mysterious killer who are stalking groupies that follow a popular nightclub band known as ‘The Jason Martinko Revue”. Soon there is a killer on the loose, as he starts stalking and killing these people. Now, the local town is outraged by events, as it’s up to a detective, who’s struggling thought personal problems of his own, before this road show of carnage gets even worse.

You know what, enough with this synopsis.

After watching “Kiss of the Vampire”, a month ago, I thought that I wasn’t going to see another film that would have the same no logic sense when it came to the production, as that film did. Boy was I ever wrong, as “Gone of the Way of Flesh” is up there with that film. Where do I start? Mind as well start, with the direction. Jason Martinko and Jordan McMillan’s direction felt amateurish. There are three reasons, why the direction felt amateurish. First, for a film that is suppose to have a lot of shock value, this film has none. The reason for this, all of the death scenes come off, as too cheesy. Maybe, I’ll let the first one slide, since his film had a very low budget, but the other two reasons, I can’t let slide. Second, the film’s sets make this film feel like a backyard home movie. It’s very noticeable, since some of the scenes in the police office; take place, in the upstairs attic of somebody’s home. It makes the film very distracting, because it takes away whatever story it had in the first place, as it doesn’t make this film look professional. If that wasn’t enough, the acting felt like it was right out of a home movie. Finally, this film felt like a music video/commercial for the director’s band known as “The Jason Martinko Revue. No offense, but a fourth of its 56 minute running time felt like publicity, for his band. Hello, this is a grindhouse horror film, not a music video, by a band that no one has ever heard off. I don’t care about the band’s music, as I just want a horror film with interesting characters and shocking scenes. There’s none of that here, as this is more of a bad rock video than a movie.

The screenplay was just as equally worst, as it’s direction. Martinko and McMillan made no attempt to try and create a coherent story. To make a horror film work, you need to need characters and a story. That’s completely nonexistent here; as the purpose of this film was to promote the band, not tell an entertaining story. The duo make no effort to develop any of its characters, as they don’t spend time developing the detective’s pursuit of the killer or what’s driving the killer to murder these people. Instead, we are treated to concert footage of their band, which is not making the film suspenseful or fun to watch. Another thing that makes me angry at this film, the filmmakers left the ending, open-ended. It’s leaves many questions unanswered to the motives and the reasoning why someone would commit these brutal murders. Couldn’t they have at least done that? I guess they were writing songs for the sequel, as it explains nothing for what just happened.

“Gone the Way of Flesh” is an awful film that seems like a music video for no name band, instead of a fun horror film and that’s why it’s garbage.

Review Rating: Zero Stars