For more details visit the festival’s website: www.midwestweirdfest.com, Press Release: MidWest WeirdFest Announces First Programming Wave for 2019. It's very B-film-like, apocalyptic, dance-dance-revolution-related, cheapish scenery, and also there's a lot of desert in it. Nick Principe (born December 30, 1978) in Providence Rhode Island, USA and is a known Actor, Stunts, Art Department. TMDb Synopsis / Plot Summary: Despite hanging up his boots following the events of "The FP," JTRO must return to the bl**d sport of Beat-Beat Revelation one last time. And no, seriously, Art Hsu might have given my favorite comedic performance of all time. The feature was accompanied by a making-of featurette, interviews with costume designer Sarah Trost and composer George Holdcroft, audio commentary by the Trost brothers, and a special edition collectors' booklet with introductions by Rob Zombie, Brian Taylor, and Mark Neveldine. © Letterboxd Limited. On a technical level it's better than its predecessor in all ways.Dialogue is dialled back, appropriately, but a charm got lost. This list of film includes fictional films about…, Some of my favourite (and not so much) dystopian movies, Fantastic Fest is a week long, annual, genre film festival in Austin, TX which takes place at the Alamo Drafthouse.…. It's no surprise then that it's all played for laughs, but the film isn't really funny enough to make that work. For another song, he sang in falsetto and altered the pitch of his voice to make himself sound like a woman. [40], Upon its theatrical release, The FP received mixed reviews from critics. I can't believe that they got two movies out of the premise of a post-apocalyptic world where disputes are settled by Dance Dance Revolution style video game battles called "beat offs," but it's still not the weirdest movie I've ever seen. Well said supply has seemingly run dry and with most of his 248 peeps under the dirt save for hype-man bestie KCDC (again played by Art Hsu), our (anti-)hero has fallen into sullen depression and hung up his Dance Dance shoes. After several failed attempts, Seafield is forced to take matters into his own drunken hands. The gangs settle their disputes by playing Beat-Beat Revelation, a music video game similar to Dance Dance Revolution. Ron Trost—Brandon and Jason Trost's father—served as special effects supervisor and executive producer of the film, and his property was the primary filming location. [45] Tom Keogh of The Seattle Times gave the film 2½ stars out of 4; he praised its novelty and criticized its lack of "outright laughs". [7] Over 80 percent of the dialogue was based on phrases frequently spoken by several Frazier Park residents. Meanwhile, L Dubba E tells his gang members to also take guns to the final match. On a technical level it's better than its predecessor in all ways.Dialogue is dialled back, appropriately, but a charm got lost. To emulate the sound of a choir for one song, Holdcroft sang the same segment more than 200 times using different voices and melodies to achieve the desired result. The Trost brothers found depicting the deaths as ambiguous funnier and believed it would remove doubts about the film being a comedy. [65] The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 22, 2018, again retitled FP2: Beats of Rage. ", "Instant Cult Classic The FP Does It for the LuLz", "Trost, Worthy – The Hero of The FP Speaks", "SXSW/American Cinematographer: The FP's Brandon Trost", "Trost Brothers' 'The FP' Premiering February 25 at Cinefamily; Drafthouse to Widen Release March 16", "Trost Brothers Offer Free Screening of The FP at Tait Ranch Saturday, 9:30pm", "Drafthouse Films Acquires THE FP For Theatrical Release! [4], George Holdcroft composed the score for The FP. In a dystopian future, rival gangs the 245 and the 248 fight for control of Frazier Park (the FP) by challenging each other in Beat-Beat Revelation, a dance-fight video game. The idea of post-apocalyptic gang fights being conducted through dance battles with a game called Beat-Beat Revelation is incredibly ridiculous, but is executed with such seriousness and gravitas that you can't help but get invested in the plight of the denizens of Frazier Park (and their duck population).