Odessa and Kyle James were just your average American boys until the night they went upstairs and killed their parents in cold blood... and smiled.
Practical Effects
Grungy low-budget kills that age like expired milk.
Acting
Dave Larsen's unhinged Odessa commits fully to the bit.
Direction
Mendez squeezes style from pennies, occasionally lands it.
Director
Mike Mendez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mike Mendez made this for roughly $30,000 before directing The Gravedancers and Lavalantula for Syfy.
Released two years after Natural Born Killers, it's peak '90s indie cinema trying to shock its way into relevance — the 'Swardson' to Stone's 'Sorkin.'
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