If you are still looking to scratch that post-apocalyptic itch that Mad Max: Fury Road delivered in spades, there’s some late summer fun to be had with Turbo Kid. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the genre mash-up follows a young solitary scavenger obsessed with comic books who must face his fears and become a reluctant hero when he meets a mysterious girl. Ahead of an August release, we now have a new red band trailer.
We said in our review,”Playing like an explosion at the Cannon Films factory, Turbo Kid is part Mad Max, part Nintendo movie classic, and part The Wizard with a sinister midnight madness sense of humor. While occasionally running out of steam, Turbo Kid has moments that are truly horrifying — it doesn’t sacrifice on the blood and gore, nor does it take itself too seriously. It’s a B-movie that knows it’s a B-movie, if little else.”
Hatched by Ant Timpson (The ABCs Of Death 1 & 2, Housebound) and Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun), and directed by Anouk Whissell, François Simard, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, check out the red band trailer below for the film starring Laurence Leboeuf, Michael Ironside, and Munro Chambers.
It’s 1997. In a ruined post-apocalyptic world, the orphaned Kid survives on his own through drought-ridden nuclear winter, traversing the Wasteland on his BMX, scavenging for scraps to trade for a scant supply of water. When his perpetually chipper, pink-haired new best friend Apple is kidnapped by a minion of evil overlord Zeus, the Kid summons the courage of his comic book hero and prepares to deliver turbocharged justice to Zeus, his buzzsaw-handed sidekick Skeletron, and their vicious masked army.
Turbo Kid opens on August 28th.