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Slasher-Horror Film About Steroid Abuse and Roid Rage
[July 8th, 2008] by Millard BakerThe anti-steroid abuse movement may have found it’s “reefer madness” education film to warn individuals about the dangers of anabolic steroids. The Wickid Pissa Films production apparently does not focus on the usual negative health side effects like heart disease and cancer (sic); instead, the movie focuses on the adverse psychological side effects of anabolic steroids, namely roid rage caused by a designer steroid created in an underground lab by a rogue chemist (”A deadly dose of Roid Rage,” July 3).
[Roid Rage: The First Dose is Deadly] follows a steroid dealer who, after receiving a designer drug from the UK, uses it to morph bodybuilders into superhuman killing machines. “ROID RAGE is not your classic slasher or gore-driven horror film—it’s more of an action/horror piece,” co-director and DP (and loyal Fango fan) Patrick Ryan tells us. “It doesn’t try to be too suspenseful or too hokey-horror.”
ROID RAGE also stands as the first genre flick to focus on steroid abuse. “With the current hoopla about Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and the WWE Chris Benoit murder, this is a topical and fierce movie that has the potential to generate the lucrative box office that SAW and BLAIR WITCH scared up,” Mitchell says.
The lesson that the film hopes to impart on viewers (especially those using steroids or at risk of steroid use) is that anabolic steroids can turn normal people into insane killers.
Ryan adds, “One of the things that makes the film different is the antagonists—all the bodybuilders who end up infected by the rage were regular people before the drug took its effect. So you come to like them and invest in them before they all become insane killers.”
The resulting carnage doesn’t skimp on the blood, the filmmakers promise. “The action scenes and thrashing characters cut and illuminate like hatchet blades, inviting the innocent spectator into a world of truculent, flawed characters who live and die in a place that looks like Oz after dark,” Mitchell explains.
The movie is produced by Wickid Pissa Films. The film has the potential to convince even the most diehard steroid side effect skeptics that steroids really are deadly.
Well, maybe not…
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