Dawn of an Evil Millennium (1988)

An epic, 20-minute, completely fabricated theatrical trailer for a crypto-Vestron Video cheapie (by way of Willow-era Ron Howard)—a supposedly 18-hour movie about a Jeff Daniels lookalike demon sent to destroy the planet (and possibly the universe) with his "Turbo-power!" Olds dragster. There are shades of John Carpenter's They Live, caffeinated Evil Dead speed-freakery, a cameo by Miles O'Keeffe, and uncanny movie preview clichés, such as sentence prepositions that never reach a resolution: "On an alien planet…the beauty and wisdom of a sorceress…." Sometimes the liner note blurbs speak for themselves: "Damon Packard is to Stephen Spielberg what George Kuchar is to Douglas Sirk."

Released July 1, 1988 20 min None+

Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, mdblist.three-actors, imdb.alpha-centauri, imdb.bizarre, imdb.blood, imdb.car-chase, imdb.chase + 5 more, imdb.covered-in-blood, imdb.demon, imdb.explosion, imdb.gun, imdb.violence