Shredder Orpheus

1990

Horror

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 236 236

hell brainwashing skateboarder

Plot summary

A skateboarder named Orpheus, his girlfriend Eurydice and their friends journey to Hell to stop television signals that are brainwashing America.

Director

Robert McGinley Photo
Robert McGinley

Top cast

John Billingsley Photo
John Billingsley as Linus
Whitey Shapiro Photo
Whitey Shapiro as Apollo
Jim Hechim Photo
Jim Hechim as Underworld Guard
Eli Swenson Photo
Eli Swenson as Ramp Skater
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
811.05 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 3
1.47 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 28 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by EyeAskance

The Orpheus/Eurydice legend gets a strange go-round.

In a bleak alternate world where urban skateboarding miscreants live in a shanty-town of metal shipping cars, young musician Orpheus and beautiful dancer Eurydice are in love. Meanwhile, the evil forces of Hell(broadcasting to televisions everywhere on a pirate network) have set their sights on Eurydice, and intend to have her for their own.Here we have a smartly made low-budget production, surprisingly well handled for an obviously very minor-league project, and the largely amateur cast performs acceptably. The post-punk, otherworldly mien is variably redolent of oddball cult titles like THE DARK BACKWARD, FORBIDDEN ZONE, and LIQUID SKY. I found myself quite enjoying SHREDDER ORPHEUS and all its skate-punk nihilism, despite its forgivable shortcomings.Certainly not for all tastes, but a worthy watch for fans of off-road amateur obscurities - 5.5/10.
Reviewed by BandSAboutMovies 4 / 10

Seattle skate

As we near the close of the Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge, finding a movie shot in Seattle was a real, well, challenge. I didn't want to do something easy, like Practical Magic, which isn't really a psychotronic film either. And I'd already posted about Fear, The Changeling, Class of 1999, Ghost Dad and The Night Strangler, so I really wanted to find something left of center.Enter Shredder Orpheus.Made more than thirty years ago about a future that has never happened, this is a group of skaters and musicians that created something that has never been created before or since, a skate-rock opera.Skateboarder/guitarist/revolutionary Orpheus and his gang of skaters must go from the Gray Zone into, well, Hell itself to save the world and his girl from the threat of television. Beyond showing a snapshot of Seattle's counterculture - which would be its culture, right? - of the past, this movie also features a soundtrack created by Roland Barker (Ministry, Revolting Cocks), Bill Rieflin (Ministry, King Crimson), poet/performance artist Steven Jesse Bernstein, guitarist Dennis Rea and multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio. Robert McGinley was the auteur behind this movie, writing, producing, directing and starring in it. He's still making cyberpunk films, as he put out Danger Diva in 2017.How many post-apocalyptic skater industrial takes on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice are you going to find? Probably, well, exactly one. I'm sure that if you live in Seattle and don't have a copy that Scarecrow probably has more than one available for rent.
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