Meet Peltzer Arbuckle, a bullied office employee, humiliated by his megalomaniac boss, teasing colleagues and cheating partner. Stuck in his mundane, nightmarish reality, once news about an embarrassing sexual accident circulates the workplace, Peltzer decides to put up with his misery no more, and conjures up his childhood imaginary friend Ronnie who manipulates him to exact gruesome revenge on his tormenting co-workers. As the body count rises, Peltzer must either run away from his past or take control of his future, battling between sanity and madness in a twisted tale of infidelity, revenge and snapped banjo strings.
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Peltzer Arbuckle (James Hamer-Morton) is viciously bullied by his work mates and his shrewish girl friend (Dani Thompson) who is also sleeping with his boss (Vito Trigo). After Peltzer has an accident where "I think something snapped" his evil imaginary childhood friend Ronnie (Damian Morter) appears in order to avenge Peltzer and to let the audience know Botox is bad.Lloyd Kaufman has a cameo as a doctor, which should clue you in to the nature of the film. It is like a British Troma production with only a fraction of the gore, which is not to say it doesn't have gore. This is a "not for everyone" cult-like production. More humor than horror.Guide: F-word, sex. No nudity.
MY BLOODY BANJO is a trashy, gruesome little tribute to Troma, made in the UK but managing to slip a Lloyd Kaufman cameo in there just for the sake of it. The best thing I can say about this is that it's better than the films made by Chris Seaver, such as FILTHY MCNASTY, but only just. The story is about a bored office worker whose abusive girlfriend drives him over the edge and into some very dark places. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE's Laurence R. Harvey plays an abused co-worker and there's a stand-out gore scene on a toilet of all places, which will have any male viewer wincing in empathy with the main character's plight. The rest is dumb, trashy, and lowbrow.
This film is a unique tale of romance in a office. You know man meets woman, then his friend turns up one day.I do like this kind of British horror film. It made me laugh, it made me look away in parts and it did not take itself to seriously . The effects, sounds and sets are good some of the cinematography was not as good the comedy did make up for that.You can see some nods to other film styles but you kind of expect that in this kind of film. I would of liked to know some of the who's and whys to move the story along. As this is the directors first feature film all I can say is well done please carry on.
I saw Banjo at it's world premier at Frightfest and I have to say what a blast! After a slowish start the pace really picks up and the film gets more entertaining as it progresses as we are taken on a trip into sexual depravity, slapstick humour and mindless gore. The director is clearly one to watch as for a first feature he has taken on the unenviable task of balancing horror and humour and for the most-part succeeded. The casting and some of the acting is also first-rate and the use of the College Jock/Nerd dynamic is particularly effective. An awesome debut from what is clearly a dedicated and very talented independent UK director.