Well, here’s a little slice of political insanity…you know what I’d like to see? Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell battle to the death on the Senate floor. Hmmm, let me revise, what I REALLY would like to see is Lindsay Graham and Moscow Mitch battle to the death on the Senate floor (or in a steel cage or anywhere, really). Of course, knowing Mitch, even dead he’d still find a way to screw democracy from Hell itself. Demon-cracy? Yeah, that’s Mitch.
So what do you call it when the zombie apocalypse coincides with a filibuster? I don’t know, either, but that is the comic horror premise for today’s film, Get the Hell Out. Our heroine is neither zombie, nor apocalypse, and she even loses her MP privileges for having a throwdown during a press conference. It could be that Hsiung (Megan Lai) has a bit of a temper (maybe even a little Hi-strung) … or it could be she’s just really into the legislative process.
Looking to bury a new chemical plant, Hsing loses her temper allowing her flamboyant McConnell-like parliament rival (Chung-wang Wang) to win a two-fer, getting his plant AND Hsing ousted at the same time. Naturally, because it’s just this easy, Hsing sets up a security guard (Bruce Ho) to be her puppet replacement. All this means is that when the plant starts turning everybody into zombies, our three mains are all in a Parliament session next door. However, the outbreak is confused by the fact that Taiwanese Mitch has deliberately staged a wrestling match as a filibuster so no vote can take place.
If you’re scoring at home, we’re in Taiwan’s Parliament. The pro-business douchebags have deliberately staged a battle royale to rule the day, government-wise, and at this exact time and place, zombies
start happening. Oh, and the doors have been locked by the would-be pro-wrestlers. Fun, huh?
Now add to that the fact that Get the Hell Out spared not an ounce of blood. This thing spewed buckets right and left AND the film plays a lot like Scott Pilgrim with immediate cuts and odd random information on screen. If you have the ability to have fun at a bloody zombie movie, this is the bloody zombie movie to have fun at.
It’s hard to tell if this film is intended as parody. Get the Hell Out is so over-the-top, it must be, right? And yet comic zombies are not generally the best way to convey, “Your system of government sucks.” Politically, this is where we’ve been headed for years, of course. When Donald Trump was elected for his playground rhetoric and third-grade education to match, Americans signaled loud and clear they no longer wanted politicians who considered, weighed, deliberated, and liaised; they want an Idiocracy, where rule of law goes to who can make the best cheap insult. Well, folks, and when I say “folks,” I mean idiot Trump voters (yes, redundant), this is the natural conclusion of what you support: a government of pro-wrestling apes. Take a good look at your future, America, because if 74 million of us are stupid enough to think Donald deserved four more years, Get the Hell Out isn’t parody so much as prescience.
Here’s a satirical political affair
Where zombies have crashed the Parliament chair
Being liberal can be folly
Cuz we believe, by golly
Even the undead have a right to health care
Rated [R], 100 Minutes
Director: I.-Fan Wang
Writer: Shih-Keng Chien, I.-Fan Wang, Wan-Ju Yang
Genre: When politics gets real
Type of being most likely to enjoy this film: People who live for a show
Type of being least likely to enjoy this film: The blood-averse
