Alyssa Kempinski

The VelociPastor is a film that’s cinematic DNA seems to have been excavated from an archaeological triple feature of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, William Friedkin’s The Exorcist and Bruce Lee’s Enter The Dragon. Actually, scrap that. More likely it was films like Roger Corman’s Carnosaur, Leslie Nielsen’s Repossessed and the A Fistful of Yen sequence from Kentucky Fried Movie that inspired this film’s zaniness. The VelociPastor is the hardest I’ve laughed at a film in the last year, proving that you don’t need a Hollywood budget or marquee names to bring the funny. At first glance, the poster art for The VelociPastor presents the film as a cheesy horror flick and though there are shades of The Wolfman in our hero’s story, what filmmaker Brendan Steere has created with The VelociPastor is a loving tribute to grindhouse cinema. The VelociPastor is to B-movies of the 70’s, what Kung Fury is to 80’s action flicks. Plot: After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability