Attack In LA
Initially filmed during a festival tour in 2016 within the limits of Fantasia, Chad Ferrin’s Parasites also has its share of cut and touches. This time for Attack In LA and with pictures that seem unconnected from the final cut. Considering portraying a small and impoverished area along with its rugged poverty-stricken gangs, the truth is totally reverse and can be summed as David vs Goliath.
Attack in LA is the first film the director released after 7 year silence since Someone’s Knocking at the Door. The focus of the story has changed from silent entertainment to urban brawl horror survival. A shift that is accompanied with a realistic story of a single man fighting for survival against a street gang. This is the most approachable film he has done so far.
In the film, 3 college football players are looking for fun, but they find themselves in the wrong part of the Los Angeles area. After their SUV gets disabled by a pack of thugs, they end up engaging with the people who laid the trap in the first place. The outcome of this encounter leaves two of them dead and a scared Marshal (Sean Samuels, Toxic Shark) running naked. He’ll have to kill or be killed. Not only as he deals with the gang, but with the other threats he comes across in the street.
Ever since its debut at Fantasia, Attack In LA has often been equated to John Carpenter’s Escape from New York. However, its influences appear more in line with Cornel Wilde’s 1965 picture Naked Prey, in which a safari team in Africa provokes a native tribe that slaughters all but one of them, played by Wilde himself. The conquistadores make him unclothed and set him free in order to pursue him like a wild game animal.
Attack In LA is in this film the city version. Now in a concrete location and completely masochistic violence and nudity. Ladies may obviously rejoice as Ferrin did not have to think twice before shooting the nude protagonist. It almost seems like a statement of purpose when the horror legend Joe Pilato (Day Of The Dead, Pulp Fiction) plays a homeless character with the last name Wilde.
The two leads both put in impressive performances. Samuel is physically strong as the desperate prey trying to do anything to survive. He’s quiet and doesn’t have much to say, but his body language speaks volumes. As for Miano, regardless of how thin their troop ranks get, he always ensures he has enough especially when there’s a lot to be said about keeping the troops in line. He’s scary. He’s like a more stable version of Charles Manson mixed with General Patton.
Equally remarkable should also be what was captured in the city by night photography. Some are beautiful long angles looking at the city while other more desperate, grab shots of the surroundings will make you feel like you actually tasted the filth in the rubbish lining the street edges. Also, Matthew Olivo’s synth based score explains the so called Carpenter comparison. To call Attack In LA a low budget film and bad is a gross understatement. It is a bad movie but in a positive way.
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