Friday AUGUST 18
11:30 PM THEATER ONE

In late 2005 a film appeared mysteriously on the marquees of several
Los Angeles area theaters. No one in the industry had heard of this film
and journalists Internet searches turned up nothing on it or its equally
mysterious director John Rad. Over the next several months the film
played continuously, and as word of mouth spread, audiences grew until lines
formed around the block to see what may prove to be the world¹s next great
underground cult movie.

Research has since revealed that Dangerous Men was shot sometime in the
late 1980s and completed in the mid-¹90s by Rad, an Iranian born architect,
musician and filmmaker who in addition to directing is credited as
screenplay writer,² editor, executive producer and ³original music,
song and lyrics as well as just about everything else. The result is one of
the most oddly unique and self-contained filmmaking sensibilities ever
witnessed: Key exposition is delivered away from the camera. Actors
appear to repeat key speeches phonetically. Kung fu sequences employ reverse
zooms, sucking the action out of the scene. Sex acts invariably involve
massaging of knees and licking of navels. A biker bar prominently features an
espresso machine.

Ostensibly the plot can be summarized like this. Mira and Daniel are in
love­ so in love it¹s scary. The recently engaged couple is inseparable,
blissfully walking along the California beach holding hands, gazing
into each others eyes and basking in the glow of their adoration like a
couple of infatuated teenagers. Their cooing love-fest is soon interrupted
however by a pair of unprovoked bikers attack them, raping Mira and killing her
beloved Daniel. Instead of going to Daniel¹s police detective brother
for help, Mira instead takes a cue from Ms. 45 and embarks on a campaign of
vengeance against all dangerous men by, naturally, posing as a
prostitute to lure them to their death (her first victim doesn't realize she has
stashed a knife between her ass cheeks).

Her crusade is cut short, however, not by the police investigation, but
rather by Mr. Rad himself, who fired his lead actress midway through
production and abruptly abandoned Mira¹s story altogether. This proves
to be but a minor set back as the police soon set their sights on the leader
of the biker-rapist gang, a long haired albino who goes by the name Black
Pepper.

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