Shredder Orpheus Movie Review

Your chance to witness Greek mythology updated/mangled in a post-apocalyptic setting with skateboard-thrash culture sensibilities. Armed with a mind-altering “lyre-axe guitar” that Jimi Hendrix secretly developed, future rocker Orpheus skateboards through hell (actually its closest equivalent, a cable-TV network) to rescue his zombified wife from the Gray Zone underworld. Cluttered with pop-culture parodies, slogans, gratuitous pavement surfing, and miscellaneous weirdness, this holds the attention for about 40 minutes until it just runs out of plot and tries unsuccessfully to coast along on Attitude. For a 20th-century take on Orpheus and Eurydice that doesn't wipe out, see Jean Cocteau's classic Orphee instead.

1989 93m/C Jesse Bernstein, Robert McGinley, Vera McCaughan, Megan Murphy, Carlo Scandiuzzi; D: Robert McGinley. VHS, Beta AIP