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]
March 25th, 2012 at 6:18 pm
Dude I almost cannot believe these videos are real. That is some crazy hilarious shit right there.
March 25th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
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.
March 26th, 2012 at 2:50 am
Great font choice on the ‘Obamaville’ caption. Very classy, no expense spared there.
March 26th, 2012 at 10:01 am
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?
March 26th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
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/
March 26th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
I kinda feel bad, but I favorited that.. It’s just too awesome to forget about and lose forever.!
March 26th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
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.
March 29th, 2012 at 9:40 am
What impoverished young film school grad agreed to this particular Faustian bargain with the Santorum campaign?
April 9th, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Nadya: thanks for the links ^^