Rick Santorum Releases Dystopian Horror Film

Man, do 2012’s Republican presidential hopefuls ever have a penchant for apocalyptic fiction! While Rick Perry fantasizes about Obama’s war on religion, (“the openly gay military hereby sentences you to re-education at Camp Kwanzaa!”) and Newt Gingrich speaks of colonizing the moon and pens alternate-history fiction in which Nazi Germany thrives (see also: “terrible sex scenes written by politicians”), Rick Santorum has just upped the ante.

This week, the Santorum camp released a chilling (read: hilarious) trailer for an eight-part series titled Obamaville. Rife with a combination of Silent Hill-like visuals, random stock imagery (meat grinders and babies!), and Obama/Ahmadinejad speech footage mashups, the 1-minute video closes with an ominous shot of the open road, with promises of more “coming soon.” YES PLEASE. It’s the perfect film to pair up with newly-released Iron Sky.

Matt Novak of Paleofuture has helpfully screen-captured and captioned the most striking images from the video. At time of writing, the video has 852 likes and 11,011 dislikes on YouTube. “Santorumville” porn parody coming in 3… 2…

[via Matt Novak via William Gibson]

9 Responses to “Rick Santorum Releases Dystopian Horror Film”

  1. Alysa Says:

    Dude I almost cannot believe these videos are real. That is some crazy hilarious shit right there.

  2. Meredith Yayanos Says:

    Funny as this is (and it’s VERY fucking funny), the fact that this turd merchant has come this far is making me extremely glad to be applying for residency in NZ.

  3. LittleErn Says:

    Great font choice on the ‘Obamaville’ caption. Very classy, no expense spared there.

  4. Lara Says:

    Hello Coilhouse, why do you say “written in an era where alt culture no longer exists”. I´m very curious about it. Is there any post here about?

  5. Nadya Says:

    Hi Lara! We expand on what we mean in our Mission Statement:http://coilhouse.net/mission-statement/

    That statement is a few years old by now, and Mer and I were thinking of rewriting it. Another really great read on this topic is Joshua Ellis’ piece “Children by the Million Wait for Alex Chilton.” Check it out:

    http://coilhouse.net/2010/03/children-by-the-millions-wait-for-alex-chilton/

  6. Shay Says:

    I kinda feel bad, but I favorited that.. It’s just too awesome to forget about and lose forever.!

  7. Tertiary Says:

    Yes, humorous, but not in a good way.

    The thing is, this shows a snapshot into the mind of a certain subset of American conservatives. Santorum is a lot of things, but if there’s one thing he knows, it’s his “people”, and what will appeal to or frighten them. This is the sort of thing that they are terrified of, that they think might happen.

    And that isn’t really funny at all, unfortunately.

  8. Madeline Ashby Says:

    What impoverished young film school grad agreed to this particular Faustian bargain with the Santorum campaign?

  9. Lara Says:

    Nadya: thanks for the links ^^