Every Friday we’re going to scour the worst of the worst to watch on Netflix Streaming and live blog the event through our Twitter feed (@cavalcadeos).
Considering the last movie I watched for the live stream event involved a Psychic Prostitute with a Bullet Wound in her face walkng around and having sex with a bunch of people while having visions, I decided to stay away from sexploitation flicks this week, instead heading over to the Supernatural Thriller section of my Netflix Streaming queue, where I came across The Surge:
Four teenagers develop paranormal abilities after channeling a mystical stone of unknown origin found deep in the woods. Their minds and bodies surge with newfound power and energy, and they go from social outcasts to gods at their high school, marveling in their new mental abilities and heightened physical strength. But as they develop an insatiable thirst for absolute power, they learn first-hand about its deadly consequences.
That’s right, this movie is a low-rent version of The Craft, because that’s such a timeless classic that it needs it’s own ripoff! I’d love to show you a trailer, but honestly? I can’t find one.
The Live blog event will start today at 2pm EST.
12.55
Thanks for Joining us in the screening of The Source (2001). Do yourself a favor. Find some booze, and watch this with friends.
112.54
The Dr. Who time tunnel is back. You know what that means? Yup! MOVIE IS OVER! Thank God!
12.52
Note to camera man: DO NOT STAND BETWEEN THE LIGHT AND THE ACTORS.
12.46
I'd keep writing more, but the movie, it burns!
12.39
That comes close to being the best line in this movie.
12.38
exactly how did this happen exactly? <-Actual dialogue.
12.37
They shoot the gun at the window and NOTHING happens. Oh hey, and there goes the boom mike again! Followed immediately by a camera shadow.
12.36
I've come to the conclusion that this movie is aggressively bad. No way could a movie be this bad by accident.
12.32
Wait, they don't need to take the shirts off now?
12.28
Okaaay. We now pause for the afterschool special. Remember kids, suicide is bad. Cue hugging.
12.26
Again, why is nobody using their powers. They established they still have them. So. . . Yeah.
12.24
What is it with everybody licking everybody in this movie?
12.20
The movie just installed a laugh track. Somebody must have read the script.
12.19
If you can still use your powers, why not have the mind control person just ask for the laptop back? Wait, my bad. I used logic.
12.17
Mental note: In order to use psychic abilities, you have to upgrade your wardrobe.
12.12
Why is it nobody notices that all the eye glowing? I think that might be important.
12.10
Why do they keep changing clothes in the middle of the school day?
12.08
What is going on with the flashlight? The cinematographer is flicking a flashlight around like mad for some reason. Oh, I get it, it means they have POWERS.
12.05
And there goes another boom mike shot! Followed immediately by wire sighting!
12.01
Oop, there goes the boom mike!
12.00
If you are being picked on by, I don't know, EVERYBODY in the school, don't you think you might want to lock your locker???
11.58
What P.E. class teaches Muay Thai? Anyone?
11.55
Is this a supernatural thriller or a knock-off of the Fantastic Four-with really bad techno.
11.53
Well at least the mind control person is in the right movie. Show us your boobies indeed.
11.50
And why exactly does it require everybody to take their shirts off? And what's with this guy and mainlining everything?
11.48
and the rock is suddenly a cold-fusion generator? Yet you still just want to jump on it? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
11.47
We now pause for a random slow-mo sequence of our not-cool kids walking through the woods. Thus negating their not-cool factor.
11.45
Ok. All of the teachers in this school are seriously emotionally disturbed. Put your head down on the desk until class is over? What?
11.44
And what teacher makes fun of his straight-A student for getting a C on a test in front of his whole class?
11.42
Yup, that teacher's gonna die. He picked on our science geek of DOOM.
11.37
Oh hey! Jumping into a vortex over a glowy rock in the woods might be dangerous! Imagine that!
11.35
It's like a "mainline into the cosmos"? How does one freebase the universe, exactly? And why is the hot chick with the whipy hair channeling Robert DeNiro?
11.34
This guy just happens to carry a complete chem lab and meat thermometers in his pocket? Screw the glowy rock! I'm freaked by THAT guy!
11.32
Mental note, anything from Asylum Entertainment is a good choice for the Cavalcade Events.
11.30
Their big secret is a giant magnetic rock? And I thought I was a geek in high school!
11.29
When a guy you just met asks you, "do you have an open mind? No I mean a really open mind?" JUST SAY "NO!"
11.28
There go the jocks! and now the stoners! Wow, this movie's not afraid of cliches, is it?
11.27
And we now have the science geek! So far, we have angsty teen artist, hippie flower child, and science geek. Next?
11.24
Well our angsty hero is an artist, OF COURSE HE IS.
11.23
Noticing some strange HTML glitches in the Live Blog software when parsing out to twitter.
11.22
Yes sir, please don't forget to put on the mascara...and scream "fear me" into the mirror! Strangely, I did the same thing in high school. Sans mascara...and the "fear me" part.
11.21
And the sink is bleeding?
11.20
Oooh, we have ourselves an angsty teen!
11.18
Ok...here we dive through the Dr. Who tunnel, with a credit sequence ripped straight from Fight Club
11.11
In reading up on this, I found out that it's made by The Asylum, the same production company that specializes in knock-offs like Transmorphers and The Terminators.
11.09
We're just about ready to start The Surge (2001).