Dear God No!

Dir: James Bickert

2011

*

Dear God No! has an awesome poster. This is where the awesomeness ends. It is heavily influenced by, and is a poor homage to, every genre of exploitation. A celebration of Grindhouse if you will. It includes ideas from Biker movies (Bikesploitation), Monster movies, Chicks with Guns movies (ever so slightly leaning towards Women in Prison films, Sexploitation, Naziploitation, Striptease and Shocksploitation. None of them are particularly well executed, in fact every one of them is butchered. It is a group of mates making a film together, all good fun if you are one of those friends, bloody awful if you are anyone else. The acting is shockingly bad, the sound is inaudible, like it was recorded from a camcorder. Some of the effects are sufficient enough, the Sasquatch actually looked pretty good in the closing scene but everything else is fairly terrible, even when considering the tiny budget, they really could have done better. Some of the content was also pretty nasty, I may well have given credit to films like The House on the Edge of the Park for example but it had an important creative agenda and were part of a movement that opposed a ruling, rather than being sick films for the sick minded, there was something else going on, a social message and many such films were reactionary examples of symbolism. Dear God No! is just sick for sick sake, it is even hinted at in the film that it is a competition to see who can be the most disgusting. It makes Pink Flamingos look like art, which it isn't. I beg everyone to avoid this gratuitous and tasteless rubbish and to save your time, it demeans horror/exploitation fans to be honest, it is of poor quality and misses the point.