I read some trivia on IMDB about
Intermedio and it made my issues with this film totally make sense . . .
. . . originally it was supposed to be a film about Steve Railsback’s character killing teens in the tunnels with strange and elaborate traps that he set along the way to avenge his son’s death. However, in the film I watched he somehow utilized the Intermedios (ghosts who are caught in between worlds) to avenge the death of his son who it looks like to me that Railsback, himself did in?
At any rate, we begin this strange and disjointed journey with a young Gen (Serina Latt) and Malik (Micael Latt) watching their fathers go down into the tunnels from which they would never return. Years later Gen (Cerina Vincent) and Malik (Edward Furlong) are talked into going down into those same tunnels to run drugs with their respective love interests, Wes (Callard Harris) and Barbie (Amber Benson) (by the way, it is evident that there is some kind of sexual tension between Gen and Malik). And of course, like their fathers before them who went into the tunnels for the same reasons – none of these kids are drug dealers, just looking to make a quick few bucks – they run into some supernatural type trouble.
I think my real issue with this film is how could the Intermedios really have killed all of these people? It messes with all of the ghost rules. And it is never really explained how Railsback’s character actually got the “magic” necklace that somehow makes the Intermedios do his bidding. It looked to me like he ripped it off his own son’s neck whilst killing him for some unexpressed reason.
And this is all not mentioning the issues with editing of the film itself. It had more goofs than Carter had little tiny liver pills (sorry – one of my Mom’s favorite sayings!). For example there is a scene where Gen’s shirt which reads Karl (don’t ask me why, I have no idea) is backwards . . . there is another scene where Gen clearly rips a necklace off Railsback’s neck and in the next shot he has it on and she is still holding it. Whoever edited this should probably not have been smoking the ganja when he/she did so . . .
I should have known that this wouldn’t be a really well made movie when at the beginning of the film with the credits there flashed up a screen that said “cut, shot and directed by” . . . who says this? Isn’t it normally written and directed by or something like that. However, in the case of Intermedio it seems as though “cut” is pretty much an accurate depiction of what I saw.
Don’t even get me started about the overacting on the part of Edward Furlong – I mean what the hell happened to him after Terminator. Yikes – pretty bad if you ask me. It seemed like he had no voice left either which made it very hard to watch his character on screen for me.
Ok so when I get right down to it,
Intermedio was just above unwatchable on my sliding movie scale. I wouldn’t recommend watching though because there are big sections of the film which slide into the unwatchable side.
Intermedio Movie Cast and Credits
Directed by
Andrew Lauer
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Craig Newman writer
Cast (in credits order)
Edward Furlong ... Malik
Steve Railsback ... Old Man
erina Vincent ... Gen
Amber Benson ... Barbie
Callard Harris ... Wes
Paul Cram ... Zee
Alejandro Samaniego ... Jorge
ean N. Arevalo ... Al (as Dean Arevalo)
Eric Caselton ... Billy
Josef Geiger ... Dayton
Richard Miranda ... Uncle Carlos
Michael Latt ... Young Malik
Serina Latt ... Young Gen
dam Gobble ... Young Wes
Dominic Ceci ... Acid Burned Intermedio
Michel Dozois ... Intermedio
Darien Rubino ... Intermedio
Jillian Rubinio ... Intermedio
Zach Weiner ... Intermedio
Payton Wright-Ferguson ... Intermedio
Sydney Wright-Ferguson ... Intermedio
Colin Vais ... Intermedio (uncredited)
More Intermedio Movie Reviews
Review of Intermedio from Buried.comIntermedio Movie Review and Information Page at The Internet Movie Database
