NYC Underground

NO MORE EXCUSES-1968-Lame amateurish "underground" film directed by and starring Robert Downey Sr as a Union Civil War soldier transported to NYC in the late '60's. While he wanders around Manhattan, the rest of this mess is men and women being interview about their reasons for going to "singles clubs", well known trickster Alan Abel explaining why he thinks domestic animals should wear clothes and a weird part with Don Calfa as stalker/rapist who breaks into a woman's apartment and forces himself on her. Later she seems to accept it and then frolics in bed with a chimpanzee. I've seen a lot of Downey's stuff (CHAFFED ELBOWS, GREASER'S PALACE, PUTNEY SWOPE) and this is his worst.

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Flying Monkeys

FLYING MONKEYS-2013-In Kansas, a father misses his daughter's high school graduation so to say he's sorry he buys her a cute pet monkey. However at night it turns into a flying monkey monster (kind of like the ones in THE WIZARD OF OZ) called a Zego, an ancient demon from China. Meanwhile in China 2 locals and some mercenaries hunt another one. It turns out that when they are shot they don't die they split in two and multiple. After all the mercs are killed the two locals go to Kansas to stop it because "everyone in America owns a gun". The acting, script and SFX are terrible.

This is the only feature film made (so far) by Robert Grasmere, usually a 2nd unit director.

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