Final Score

Hello Supercult West! This is Supercult South Bad Movie Professor Cameron Coker (BS in “Chris Mitchum” with a minor in “To-Kill Lists”) and I’m reaching out to you from across the country to help hype tonight’s screening of Final Score!

“I’ll find whoever did this and, so help me God, they’ll pay.”

This movie is also known as “Elegy of a Massacre” in Japan.

It’s like an 80s Indonesian version of Ghost Rider

“I want that bastard caught – alive! I want to provide him with a slow and painful death.”

You know it’s good when there’s barbed wire in the box art!

This movie has a simple premise: Guy’s family is killed. Guy spends the rest of the movie killing everyone even remotely connected to the killing. Greater stories have been told with less…*cough* John Wick *cough* Kill Bill *cough* The Punisher *cough* True Grit *cough* The Crow *cough* Gladiator *cough cough*. Whew! There must be some bug going around, huh? Anyway, while the film’s story may be simple, the story of the film is rich with nuance!

The star, Chris Mitchum, is the second son of Robert Mitchum the legendary actor, director, author, poet, composer, singer, star of Cape Fear and Night of the Hunter, Academy Award Nominee, and professional inferiority complex creator. Chris Mitchum tried to follow in his father’s footsteps for a time, appearing in films alongside John Wayne, but his conservative political leanings put him at odds with liberal Hollywood and by the 1970s the work had dried up almost entirely. Chris was forced to re-invent himself, and found his way into the European and South East Asian film industry. While his father was a film noir A-lister, Chris Mitchum was reborn as a B-movie phoenix…with explosions, and car chases, and ludicrous stunts that make you wonder if the stunt guy survived or not!

Final Score is quintessential of Mitchum’s new niche, an Indonesian action flick directed by a no-holds-barred director known only as Arizal! *dramatic guitar riff* The name is synonymous with Indonesian action cinema (and YES that is totally a thing), having directed numerous other bombastic films like Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters, Double Crosser, and Supercult Classic The Stabilizer. These films solidified South East Asia as a powerhouse of 80s action camp. Final Score is wacky, self-indulgent, and visually ambitious. It’s got hilarious dubbing, 180-degree tone shifts from revenge thriller to a raunchy romance that will leave you reeling, and, let us not forget, a director simply names Arizal! *dramatic guitar riff*

It’s absolute mayhem, supercultists, and you are going to love it!

Supercult West is proud to present, Final Score!

Oh yeah, and Chris Mitchum also unsuccessfully ran for the California State Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives…