Just based on the title alone, you can tell the movie Lesbian Vampire Killers isn't so much a film as a calling card, a promise that the people behind this madness will bring you the exploitation goods should you choose to hire them. And for the movie's director Phil Claydon, the gambit worked. He's been hired to direct New Line's Dan Mintner: Badass for Hire, a comedy about an 80s-style vigilante stuck in modern times.
Even Contrafilm's Beau Flynn, who will be producing Dan Mintner, admits that it was Claydon's cheeky film that got him the job: "Phil was basically hired off the title alone of his first film." Tripp Vinson, another producer, was also in the spirit of things: "Plus his film had our two favorite things in cinema: vampires and lesbians."
The idea behind Dan MIntner sounds solid, especially given how many 80s action stars still walk among us doing their same old thing. But I can't help think of the last time someone tried to do a jokey revival of 80s action; the result was Pineapple Express, and while I loved it, not everyone was so enthusiastic. Can Phil Claydon accomplish what David Gordon Green could not? If he's got hte same talent for directing that he does for titles, just maybe.
