Fist of Jesus
October. 12,2012When Jacob tells Jesus that Lazarus, his son, is dead, he goes to his house to raise him from the dead.
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Lack of good storyline.
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Go ahead goat-head! Make fun of your Creator. That's smart.
Very very very VERY gory Spanish short with English subtitles. Jesus helps Lazarus rise from the dead. Very good but Lazarus is now a flesh-eating zombie! Jesus screams like a girl and, with Judas following, runs to escape. However they're surrounded by Roman soldier zombies and cowboy (???) zombies. What follows is an incredibly gory (and incredibly funny) fight between Jesus and Judas and zombies! The Catholic Church will probably go crazy if it ever gets a look at this! It tears into Jesus and the Bible with glee with tons of gore and blood. The special effects are excellent and look very realistic. This is basically a must see for gore fans who aren't loyal Catholics. A 10 all the way.
Sometimes it helps if you go in to a film generally and a short film in particular knowing absolutely about it . I noticed Bob's one line summary and decided to stop reading there and then and catch the film in its entirety on the shortoftheweek website . Like nearly every other film I've seen on that website I decided to forgo reading the written comments that always goes along with the film and just watch it ignorant as to what I'd be getting This was a very good idea because all I knew was it was " gory " and had" a good sense of humour " . As it started I realised something else - it was in Spanish and Spanish cinema has a long and noble history of horror and twisted morbid cinema which is both enjoyable and thought provoking . If you're expecting something biblical with this story then think again because this is Monty Python meets the early splatter punk horror of Peter Jackson . Early in to the running time Jesus feels the need to perform yet another miracle but when you're interfering with the very laws of nature itself something might just go wrong and I had to stifle a laugh while thinking I wasn't expecting that as the initial inciting incident took place To be honest after this the short just becomes a long extended action sequence featuring gore , mutilation and death and the narrative doesn't extend in to going beyond any of this but that's not necessarily a criticism and story knows that it's appealing to an audience interested in gross out comedy horror . Special mention should go to the effects and make up team who obviously put a lot of hard work in to giving the audience a good time . If I was a Hollywood producer I'd track this crew down and sign them up for a studio but it's a sad fact of life that nowadays Hollywood studios think that special effects are exclusively CGI and pyrotechnics . As it stands this little known Spanish short quite rightly puts Hollywood to shame
Jesus is giving a sermon when he is approached with the news that Lazarus has died. Packing up his things and taking his trusty friend Judas with him, Jesus returns to the town and displays his newest miracle – bringing the dead back to life. The assembled crowd is filled with awe when they see Lazarus move and then sit up, however this turns to screams as Lazarus starts chewing on the living – sparking a zombie plague that only Jesus can stop (once he gets his courage and stops running away).This is a great little comedy horror which takes the original living dead and applies the conventions of modern zombie cinema back to it. The plot is little more than an excuse for scenes of zombie carnage as they attack and then even more vivid gore as Jesus and Judas fight back. Although the effects are the majority of the film's running time, there are plenty of laughs that are not gore related and there were several moments and references that made me laugh. Outside of this though it is all about the gore so if you like that sort of thing then you will love this because it is endlessly gory in the depiction of crushed heads, ripped guts, severed limbs and one fish being used to kill (rather than feed) 5000 zombies. Personally this is not normally to my taste so I did find myself looking away during some of the more intense sequences, but this is more about me than the film. The make-up and effects work are very impressive – not just "for a short film" but just generally, and the whole thing has a nice Evil Dead sensibility.You need to like gore to really enjoy it, but this is a great little comedy horror with a good sense of humor and a very impressive job done on the gory effects and make-up.