Before any of you jump down my throat for showing up a little more than fashionably late to this party, I'd like to kindly remind you that I've been slaving away in an underfunded state school dorm room that cannot afford two ply toilet paper, let alone digital cable. So get off it. That being said, I'm about to be up to my eyelids in five figures of student loan debt, so I can't exactly pay for episodes of the show on iTunes...so I made the executive decision to suffer until today when I finally came home to the comfort of a 52 inch hi-def with ONdemand and the finest couches a tax return can buy. Thanks, Mom & Dad. Anyway, within an hour of being home, I planted myself onto the living room couch, took command of the remote, and got myself ready for a hot date with Adam Green and Joe Lynch in a little place called Holliston.
First of all, I need to explain my thoughts on Adam Green. When
Hatchet first came out, I wasn't into it. Maybe it was due to my horror hipster phase or maybe I'm just a huge pretentious bitch. Either way, I seemed to be the ONLY person on the planet that thought it was a hot horror tranny mess. I didn't understand the fascination with Adam Green and I'm pretty sure my opinions got me crossed off of John Squires' (of
Freddy in Space) Christmas list. I will admit after seeing the Green produced
GRACE and being utterly blown away by
FROZEN, I was willing to bite my tongue and admit...Adam Green doesn't suck. I honestly think that he's actually quite far from sucking. In fact, I just may think he's, well, you know...brilliant. There, I said it. It's been stated, it's published on the internet, you can all throw your parades of "I Told You So" and I will deal with it. I've since given both
Hatchet &
Hatchet II a second chance and you know what, it's growing on me. YEP. AGAIN. I FUCKING SAID IT. IT'S GROWING ON ME. Hey, you there, turn that condescending half smile towards someone else, Tool-io Iglesias...I can feel your judging eyes all the way through the internet.
Joe Lynch I've never had any "meh" feelings towards, so that wasn't even on the radar. ANNNNYWAY, So,
Holliston. I just dedicated nearly six hours of my life in a single sitting experiencing the first season of this show. You know something? I regret nothing. In fact, I might do it again sometime soon.
Holliston is the epitome of all the things that make the pants of fanboys fight tighter everywhere. "Adam and Joe are two down on their luck guys living in the small New England town of Holliston, Massachusetts and struggling to chase their dream of becoming horror movie filmmakers... all while dealing with life, their day jobs, and the opposite sex. With a cast that includes a cross dressing sexually inappropriate boss, a mentally handicapped cat, and an imaginary friend/alien who lives in the closet...
Holliston re-invents the traditional sit-com as we know it and breaks new (and sometimes bloody) ground." <-Jacked from
their Facebook. Can I just mention that the cross dressing boss is played by Dee Snider of Twisted Sister and the imaginary friend is Oderus Urungus of GWAR? I can? Okay. Awesome.
Holliston delivers to genre fans in absolutely every sense of the word. Whether it's Joe Lynch rocking a Fright-Rags T-Shirt, mentioning films like C.H.U.D., playing a horror quote drinking game, or doing a "Six Degrees of Robert Englund," it's abundantly clear that this show was made with the heart of horror fans in mind. One of my biggest praises for
FROZEN was how genuine the dialogue felt, and the same can be said for this show. While very campy, many of the conversations, references, and phrases uttered sound like something out of the horror kid's handbook. All of the episodes are hilarious, but filled with plenty of gore and gross outs to fulfill our sick desires. For only six episodes, the show packed more horror and nerdy star power cameos than most conventions. The show is incredibly self referential (saying "we're not going to take it anymore" to Dee Snider) in the most obvious and entertaining ways possible. Most films or television shows will throw an occasional bone to the fans, but
Holliston is just one, huge, bone delivered hard and fast to the audience, and I mean that. The strange thing, is that it isn't purely a circle jerk for horror fans. My younger sister is a total sorority type (literally, she's a god damn cheerleading sorority girl) and she watched the first two episodes with me and laughed along. When I told her Green was the guy behind
FROZEN (a film I unleashed on her sorority sisters when looking for a thrill) she was blown away at how funny he was.
The real underdog of the show however, has gotta be Laura Ortiz. You may recognize her from
The Hills Have Eyes and
Chillerama, but I am officially obsessed with her. Laura Ortiz plays the Colombian girlfriend of Joe Lynch, and she has IMPECCABLE comedic timing. The combination of a voice out of Whoville, kaleidoscope eyes, and the innocence of a de-clawed kitten in a bowl of sugar flavored cotton balls thrown into the sarcastic environment of Adam and Joe is a recipe for perfection. Her lines are some of the most well written and her execution is absolutely flawless. I just gotta know, why the hell isn't she getting more work and Whitney Cummings can have her own show?! It's a travesty and needs to be stopped. Thankfully,
Holliston has been green lit for a second season and I can further enjoy the shenanigans of the crew. Corri English fills out the rest of the team and her performance is a bit hit or miss for me. If I'm being completely honest, her wardrobe is a bit distracting in my opinion. I understand wanting to have a hot blonde character, but why do all of her outfits have to look like they're cosplayed versions of herself? I'm all for sex appeal, but it's so out of place it just doesn't jive. That's just me, though.
Holliston is a show that speaks from the bleeding heart of horror nerds everywhere and keeps on pulling punches. The show is NOT for everyone (meaning: people who get severely butthurt by offensive humor) but for those who understand it's just a joke and not a dick to be taken so hard...this show is right up your alley. It's a hell of a ride filled with plenty of horror niblets to chew on, jokes with the intellect of Oscar Wilde but the maturity of your fourteen year old best friend, and enough slang terms for the vagina to make the length of vagina terms in Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo look like a half-assed review written by a pathetic pandering horror blogger! Wait, did I say that?
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