Elvis Took a Bullet

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Jeff Wilkes is a doctor who has a phobia of dead people, orders five limes with his vodka tonic, and is a "Scuzz" B-movie freak. New to L.A., he answers an ad for a roommate and meets Aron Presley, a young man who believes that he is Elvis reincarnated. Confronted with the fact that his own reincarnation is impossible, since he was alive when Elvis died, Aron calmly answers, "In L.A., you create your own reality." After a bizarre interview to be a roommate, Jeff moves in with Aron, and falling prey to Aron's plan, gets blackmailed into an elaborate scheme filled with drugs, sex and blue suede shoes. With more twists and turns than the presidential election, Jerry Eeten takes us on a ride like that of a quintessential B-movie. Along the way we are joined by our familiar friends "The Henchman," "The Femme Fatale" and "The Bogart Wannabe"--during which Aron, recognizing that his words sound like something out of Pulp Fiction, says, "I feel like a Tarantino movie." Director Jerry Eetan has created both an homage to and a satire of a unique genre, mixing recognizable elements with a comic twist. Whether or not you dig B-movies (and what true film fanatic really doesn't?), you'll have a blast trying to figure out if Jeff can save himself from "The Secret Bad Guy" or sink further into this world of deceit, fear and sideburns. Reviewed by Sandy Wolf