Director UWE BOLL and star ZACK WARD in person!

Rather than continuing to fight his public and online image, controversial director Uwe Boll has decided to embrace it, intentionally elevating the level of absurdity and shlock here to never before seen levels, all in the name of creating one of the most coarse, vulgar and offensive comedies ever put to celluloid. This is a movie that sees Boll appear on screen gleefully claiming to finance his films with Nazi gold. This is a film that features a frontal nude shot of former Kid in the Hall Dave Foley in its opening minutes. This is a film that features the World Trade Center hijackers attempting to change course because there’s a shortage of virgins in the afterlife. And while it certainly will offend it will do so, perhaps surprisingly, because beneath the madness it features some surprisingly pointed and accurate moments of social satire.

POSTAL is a film difficult to summarize without simply spoiling the jokes but here is a rough outline: our ‘hero’ (Zack Ward, AKA Skut Farkus from A CHRISTMAS STORY!) is a twenty something trailer park dweller, laid off from a factory job and trying to find work while living off welfare with his grotesquely obese, chronically – and graphically - unfaithful wife. Just outside of town lives his uncle Dave – that’d be Dave Foley - the con man leader of a fake religious cult to whom he is known as Uncle Dave and to whom they pay out both large amounts of cash and sexual favors. Unknown to his nubile flock, however, Uncle Dave hasn’t been paying his taxes and the compound is in danger of being shut down. Following quite possibly the most demeaning job interview on the history of the planet and a trip to the welfare office gone horribly and hysterically wrong our hero agrees to help Uncle Dave on a scam to get his personal slice of heaven back in the black.

Running simultaneous to this is the second key plotline, this one revolving around Osama Bin Laden and his core al Quaeda members, living in the back room of a local variety store while they plan their next move. Though Osama is simply going through the motions of being an international terror leader to stave off boredom his key lieutenant and chief boot licker has come up with a plan even more devastating than the 9-11 attacks, the key of which is – surprise, surprise – also key to Uncle Dave’s plan.

What both sides want is a shipment of rare, coveted, Krotchy dolls, Krotchy being a little penis shaped cartoon character voiced by “International Superstar” Vern Troyer. Uncle Dave wants to sell them on Ebay. Osama wants to lace them with biological agents and before doing the same thing. But before either can proceed the dolls need to be ‘liberated’ from a German themed amusement park run by Uwe Boll, playing himself. Chaos – and rampant gun play – ensues. (Todd Brown)

Check out the HIGHLY offensive opening scene below, and I defy you to miss this screening (Tim)