Film

Bristol Bad Film Club: Surfer – Teen Confronts Fear

Director
Douglas Burke
Certificate
PG
Running Time
97 mins

It’s not often that the Bristol Bad Film Club brings us a recent release, but this bizarro, self-funded 2018 indie Christian surfer flick has been delighting audiences on the late night circuit and is earning a reputation as the new The Room. Superficially, it’s an uplifting drama about a nipper (director and star Douglas Burke’s real-life son, Sage) overcoming his trauma after a surfing accident, but it swftly begins to get hilariously mystical on our asses.

As Variety‘s suitably aghast reviewer remarked: “It is the sort of movie that sustains interest from scene to scene only because you’re constantly wondering whether it could possibly get any worse. In this regard, it seldom disappoints.”

All profits from this screening go to SARSAS. Go here for tickets.

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By robin askew, Thursday, Nov 22 2018

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