{"id":6533,"date":"2008-02-11T22:35:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=6533"},"modified":"2008-02-11T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T03:35:04","slug":"the-kegger-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/the-kegger-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kegger (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"6516\"<\/a>Phil Haney is one sick fuck. And trust me, that\u2019s an ode of respect and praise to the man who created one of the best times I\u2019ve had with an online short movie in a while. \u201cThe Kegger\u201d is a film that seems obvious and yet will pretty much sweep the rug out from even the most cynical viewer who thinks they\u2019re watching an \u201cAnimal House\u201d wannabe. Even as a darkly demented frat house romp, \u201cThe Kegger\u201d is rather hysterical with some great acting, and hilarious gags that left me breathless.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s the girl who just can\u2019t get out of the way of vomit, the idiotic frat brother jocks, and the girl who works in a McDonald\u2019s\u2026 in a Wal-Mart. Suffice it to say that without the ace performances, this material wouldn\u2019t be as sharp as it is on-screen. Every performer here is great, and Haney directs them into comedic gold that entertained the heck out of me; Lindsay Wilson is great as Danielle, the dreamy girl who got away that our two main characters Eric and Richard are trying to scope out and possible re-connect with, while Ben Fuller and Robert Lambert are funny and memorable as the two inadvertent party crashers who intend to \u201cscore\u201d with the drunken chicks at the party if it kills them. The twist that Haney hands us in the finale was surprisingly very well delivered and thankfully never felt shoehorned or forced.<\/p>\n

The way that our characters go from inept partiers to, well\u2014you\u2019ll see, really felt natural, and Haney handles the change in tone and genre with utter perfection. I laughed, and then upon this twist I gasped utterly taken aback and pleased that Haney just didn\u2019t want to give us another frat house romp, however funny it was. The fact that Danielle leaving main character Eric has such repercussions is an interesting direction Haney takes beyond the typical comedic conventions of the man simply being heartbroken, and there\u2019s an innate psychology and observation at hand, along the statement that these two guys are not who they appear to be. I raise my Corona to you, Phil. \u201cThe Kegger\u201d is an obviously low budget production with an apparent stripped down budget, but damned if Haney doesn\u2019t take it and make it in to something original and worthwhile with tight performances, great comedic timing, and a twist you won\u2019t see coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phil Haney is one sick fuck. And trust me, that\u2019s an ode of respect and praise to the man who created one of the best times I\u2019ve had with an online short movie in a while. \u201cThe Kegger\u201d is a film that seems obvious and yet will pretty much sweep the rug out from even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[219,477,501,570,938,1087],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-k","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}