GIVE ‘EM ALL 6

Produced by Jason Montgomery
Written and Directed by Maxwell Mattord

Hitman - Rex Malone
Woman - Jennifer Owen

I love it when high school kids make horror films. What they lack in style they make up in sheer audacity. GIVE ‘EM ALL 6 won't win any prizes for technique or execution, but these kids sure give it the old colle....er....high school try.

Rex Malone plays a hitman out to kill the kidnapper of a businessman's daughter and return her safely home. Full of ban puns and limp-dicked sexual bravado, he makes for the goods, what he doesn't plan on are a group of teenage zombies.

It turns out that the woman he's after is an uber-bitch supreme who is hiding out with her spineless boyfriend, the kind of guy who likes to yell "motherf*cker" at himself in the bathroom mirror. It seems Motherf*cker owes the local mob money and is hunted down by more teenage hitmen. It's Uber-Bitch that has to bale his ass out of the fire.

Somewhere along the way a redneck creates the previously mentioned batch of teenage zombies from some dead teenage hitmen.

Yes, it's confusing. No lying there. The blaring soundtrack drowning out all the action doesn't help matter much.

GIVE ‘EM ALL 6 is about the fun experience making a movie, not the fun experience of watching a movie. I don't think Maxwell Mattord ever expected to have his film nationally distributed through Witching Hour Video. The movie looks like he just got together with his pals on the weekend and decided to have some fun.

That's probably the way it should be with all of us.

I hope the guy continues to work at it. Over the past few years I've seen up and comers like Ryan Cavalline come a long way. Last week I mentioned Guy McConnell as another one to watch. Everyone starts out as an amateur at some point. The joy comes from watching them grow.

The future of independent horror lies with the fans who are ready to give back to the genre that gives them so much satisfaction. But love for the genre doesn't make you a good filmmaker with something worthwhile to say. You learn by doing, and in the near future I hope Mattord can grow to the point where he makes a movie worth repeated viewings.

Planet Francois Films
Witching Hour Video

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