More than a decade before “The Lord of the Rings”, Peter Jackson had made “The Feebles”, a completely crazy puppet film. Focus on this trashy version of the “Muppet Show” not to be stared at.
WARNING: the film presented here, frankly trashy, may shock sensitive souls and is therefore to be reserved for a very informed public.
Long before embarking on the pharaonic adventure of Lord of the Rings, New Zealander Peter Jackson was a trashy filmmaker to say the least. With the horror films Bad Taste and Braindead, but also, in a completely different genre, the improbable puppet film Les Feebles.
You don’t know Les Feebles, an apocalyptic version of Muppet Show, a small summit in bad taste in which the New Zealand director allows himself absolutely everything without any limit? So we must catch up with this UFO without further delay!
Released in theaters in 1991, Les Feebles tells the story of a music hall troupe made up of puppets, who are preparing before the evening performance. The tension rises, because the show will be filmed by a major TV channel.
Ah yes, let’s specify, it still has its importance, that in this troop rub shoulders, among others, a rat director of porn films, a fly journalist, a Vietnam veteran addicted to drugs and other very strange characters. .. An entire program !
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Shot in Wellington for the modest sum of 750,000 dollars, the very “home-made” The Feebles was born out of frustration, the one felt by Peter Jackson after he failed to put the project together Braindead (which will finally see the light of day a little later). A satire of the showbiz industry, the film, let’s not be afraid of words, is frankly stunning.
Because on the program of Feebles, there is dirty, gore, sex, vulgar, perverse, black humor, disgusting… We warn you: you will have your share of bad taste here. Very funny, this frankly daring comedy, which is like no other, goes very far and has an unhealthy side, wanted by Jackson himself, which makes it frankly fascinating. Try the experience!
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