DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III: THE NEW SAME EDITION (2015)

Re-released On Demand and digital download from 5 Second Films!
Directed by Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon
Written by Alec Owen (screenplay), Jon Salmon, Michael E. Peter, Ben Gigli, Timothy Ciancio, Michael Rousselet, Tomm Jacobsen, Joey Scoma, Mike James, & Brian Firenzi (Writers)
Starring Alec Owen, Patton Oswalt, Paul Prado, Brian Firenzi, Kelsey Gunn, Joey Scoma, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Ben Gigli, Jimmy Wong, Greg Sestero, Jon Salmon, Michael Rousselet, Mike James, Maria Del Carmen, Nina Hartley, Nick Kocher, Brian McElhaney, Andrew W.K., K.C. Katsaros, Brandon White, Donan Whelan, Erik Sandoval, Skyler Rousselet, Chelsea St. John, Larry King, Rocky Collins, Jon Worley, Matt Hargreaves, Ian Ahern, Benji Dolly, Desmond Dolly, Katie Matthews, Thomas Ridgewell, Clayton LaDue, Tomm Jacobsen, Jon M. Brence, Katie Johnson
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Filling itself from the rooter to the tooter with lowbrow fun, though sometimes surprising at how sophisticated the humor turns out, DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III is some of the dumbest fun you’re going to have while watching a horror film.

Having survived the past two DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE’s (you didn’t miss anything, there are no actual DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE movies before this one) , dude bro Brock (one of the screenwriters of the film Alec Owen) has been left pretty traumatized. After recapping his harrowing journey to his therapist, he finds that his luck has run out and ends up being murdered by what looks to be the seemingly resurrected “Motherface,” a serial killer who terrorized the jocks and preps of Frat Row in the first two non-existent films. Brock’s twin brother Brent (also played by Owen) never understood why his brother was into the whole frat thing and was more of a loner, but hearing of his brother’s death, he sets out to solve who murdered him and put an end to this Dude Bro Party Massacre business once and for all. Entering as a pledge to the fraternity, he meets his Dude Bro brethren and heads out on an innocent party weekend with the dudes, all the while trying to glean who the killer is. Luckily (or unluckily depending on how you look at it), Motherface has followed them into the woods and she’s ready to kill again!

The humor in DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III is pretty much the WET, HOT, AMERICAN SUMMER variety as it chooses to barrage us with one inane moment after the next at rapid fire. While everyone is taking things drastically seriously within the narrative, there isn’t a serious line muttered by the cast. In DBPM3, like many characters in the horror films we love and cherish, they have no idea they are in a horror movie, let alone a farce of a horror movie. So, this makes it all the more fun and drives the point home that everyone in this film is an idiot, oblivious to the creeping horror picking them off one by one, mainly because it’s happened to them in two unmade movies before.

I wasn’t expecting to be scared by this film and I wasn’t. That’s not what this film is supposed to be. Though there are some shockingly gory moments (and the gore effects are top notch all the way through except for maybe a intentionally fake looking severed head or two), these effects are so outrageous that they will inspire gasps of laughter more than anything else.

The scores of cameos in this film are another treat. While the main actors all seem to be a part of the same comedy troupe, genre greats like Patton Oswalt, porn star Nina Hartley, Larry King, and of course, party-rocker Andrew W.K. show up just long enough to make you wonder why the hell they are there. In all cases, these cameos aren’t slumming it. They seem to be giving it their all to support this low budget, high energy film

I thought DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III was a low-f masterpiece, but I’m sure there will be some who won’t. Humor being the most subjective of qualities, I’m certain there will be those sticks in the mud that will write this one off for its non-stop inanity. But I loved this film for that same reason. If hearing the dude-bro’s sing “Nobody Is Gonna Die” as they drive a camper to a desolate location in the middle of the woods makes you smile, this might be the type of film for you. DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III turned out to have my kind of gross-out and go for broke sensibilities that I love and respect. If you can laugh at the absurdity of horror while poking fun at a subculture of men who deserve to be laughed at, then I’m sure you’re the right type of audience for DUDE BRO PARTY MASSACRE III. For some reason the film is being re-released this week, so here’s your chance to check it out all over again. It makes me wish this troupe would return and make the first DUDE BRO films. It’s my kind of fun.

Check out the trailer here!!