What Do You Know About My Fadher?
Jul 23rd, 2010 by Donagh
This trailer of an Irish film called Fatal Deviation (!) has some classic lines, made more resonate by the accent they are spoken in.
Robert Popper says that its an instant modern classic and I believe him. Remember, he just might be responsible for Crystal Swing’s success.
I have no idea yet what the hell this is.
Maybe you could tell me…
Made in 1988, the same year as The Courier.
Oops. sorry. 1998. ten years after The Courier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_Deviation
This is the grand-daddy of irish kung fu movies. A genre much ignored by modern day film historians and their obsession with “quality” and “viewers”. Its hard to match as a kernal of irish nineties popular culture. Its got a supermarket AND Mikey Graham from boyzone. The two most influential threads.
Its most lasting cultural legacy however is surely that it opened the door for truely game-changing movies like OMEGA TEAM ALPHA FORCE SIX PART II: THE RETURN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9A3PTAncI
‘OMEGA TEAM ALPHA FORCE SIX PART II: THE RETURN’ is Kurt Cobain to Fatal Daviation’s Jimi Hendrix.
First off, can we really trust the analysis of someone who shares a name with a certain popular arse-relaxant ? Be it Karl or Robert ???
(I’m sure he’s NEVER heard that one before)
Secondly, surely this is a spin-off from Father Ted, your worship ? Aren’t those the same characters that were hanging around the Craggy Island fairground in at least one episode ?
Must be ‘Frasier’ to Father Ted’s ‘Cheers’.
Roger Corman’s studio in Connemara has been churning out micksploitation by the bucketload since he moved here in the 1990s. This one is called Moving Target and it involves kickboxing, the IRA, and Beamish.