#30 – Don’t Let The Riverbeast Get You!

In the third instalment of their regional horror movie cycle, Charlie Roxburgh and Matt Farley once again lampoon the tropes and traditions of low-budget B-movies by filtering them through their unique comic sensibility that skirts, but never falls into ironic mockery or condescending camp.

In Riverbeast, Farley portrays Neil Stewart, a disgraced tutor / rock ‘n’ roller who returns to his sleepy New England town in an effort to prove the existence of a local aquatic menace and also win back the heart of his ex-fiancée. Hilariously loquacious dialogue and ramshackle aesthetic quirks abound, and the whole production is remarkably couched in an air of wide-eyed sincerity that is guaranteed to incite fits of giggles from any audience with an affinity for the absurd. Concludes with perhaps the funniest sight gag in the history of film.