Daddy's Boys

"Daddy's Boys" (1988) (Joseph Minion) Joseph Minion (the mad genius screenwriter (and A?NS! super-favorite) behind “Vampire’s Kiss”, “Motorama” and “After Hours”) took his first crack/gig at directing with this period genre quickie for Roger Corman. Supposedly Corman gave Minion one week’s notice to shoot the film in a matter of days on sets left over from “Big Bad Mama II”. Ironically, the blandest ingredients in the film are the hand-me-down sets and costumes themselves which no doubt were meant to be the strongest and most impressive assets to the production. And in the hands of a lesser mind they most likely would have been, but under the unique radar of Minion an expected Corman no-budget period genre action/crime product filler became an unpredictable, bizarrely funny, light, dark and odd square peg something (that I’m sure the marketing team had a headscratcher of a time selling; just take a look at the VHS cover box?!). It’s the kind of superficially ordinary but bizarrely upredictable, intangible, surreal and often hilarious whatsit that only Minion has brought into being (at least assumingly on purpose). At first glance, “Daddy’s Boys” might appear to be the pedestrian pe

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