DAC Episode 401 - Crank (2006)

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A white guy with a shaved head is putting a clamp on his tongue and one nipple. A Latino man in a zip-up hoodie stands behind him, looking resigned to the insanity playing out before his eyes.

keeping a live dog alive with the miracle of electricity.

Many people claim that the cinema of 2007, with its countries not intended for seniors and forecasts of blood like satanic weathermen, is the peak year for 21st century cinema. Of course, those snobby cineastes fail to account for the previous year, which produced what may be the purest jolt of adrenaline ever committed to movie screens. I’m talking about Crank, the Neveldine and Taylor joint that proved movies don’t need high art, or logic, or coherence. They just need an outlandish visual style, a cameo from Maynard Keenan, and a dozen cameras following an absolutely unhinged Jason Statham as he tears his way through Los Angeles. The premise? Keep your adrenaline pumping or die. It’s Speed on speed. It’s a garbage film made by garbage minds, an endless spewing of high-velocity trash aimed right at our limbic system. Its like will not be seen again. Needless to say, it’s a personal favourite here at the Destroy All Culture compound.

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