January 1st, 2007
The story of Ricky
What a film. Finally got my hands on a decent version of it over the weekend. In the days of seedy tape trading and pre-internet, this film eluded me for years.
I had this 3 hour tape of flarn that had some really wacky shit on it, stuff I couldn’t stomach today but the tape was the perfect party mix. By party I mean 6 stoned lads sitting on couches. I’d put that tape on and show these lads the craziest flarn ever,when the last scene ended the tape would go all white and fuzzy and as with all worn out old videos, the next piece of footage was barely visible through the mess until the tape straightened itself. The porn had ended and The Story of Ricky had begun.
Through the jumps and grainyness of the tape you could only barely make out some parts, the sound was more or less gone too but it would have moments of shocking lucidity. The part where Ricky is put in a vice then has razor blades forced into his mouth would play perfectly then it’d go wonky for 20 minutes. It still left the audience speechless. I didn’t know the name of the film so hunting it down was a chore but I got another copy of it. That one was missing 25 minutes from the start and still had terrible quality. I’ve said before how I like bad quality video, and it certainly applied in this case but I still wanted to see it clearly.
I’m calling this the best film ever not because of the gore but because of it’s attitude. It has the strange quality of every good comic, game and dopey power fantasy you’ve ever had.
Based on a popular manga, the story features our hero Ricky being sent to a privatised prison in the terrifying future of 2001. There are 4 daddies for each wing, North, East and the other two. When he works his way through them, he fights the end of game boss, The Warden in the craziest scrap ever. Forget all this CGI shit, latex and pig guts all the way. The clip below is just a snifter of the goodness.
Whuaahhh! I love it.
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