2019 - VFW, a nostalgic horror film

A nostalgic horror film filled with a cast of character actor old timers.  VFW is also one gory and violent film.  The director Joe Begos is a relatively young guy who seems attracted to this kind of extremely nasty stuff in his other films and VFW has plenty of intense over the top violence.

The plot such that it is has a gang of drug dealers looking for a member who has run away from the gang with a load of their very nasty drugs.  She ends up hiding in a rundown VFW bar full of over the hill army veterans. The veterans decide to take a stand and protect her from the gang.  VFW is kind of a really savage version of Rio Bravo or Assault On Precinct 13.  Let the siege commence and make sure everyone is swimming in blood with all the killing going on by the end of the film.

 

Besides the incredible killing stuff what this film has going for it is an amazing cast of actor old guys.  Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson, David Patrick Kelly and George Wendt are the oldsters who turn out to be just as scary and tough as the drug dealers.  These performers should know a thing or two about how to be tough guys since they mostly spent their careers in action movies.

 

This film is well made and I have to say the spilled blood and the violent action scenes are also very well photographed.  The old guy actors actually bring a kind of a poignancy to this story which is hard to believe. but it's there.  If this kind of stuff is your cup of carnage, VFW can be a very enjoyable story.

The film was written by Max Brallier and Matthew McArdle, the running time is 92 minutes.