Voltage Pictures and RLJE Films have released the official trailer of the action-packed thriller, VFW, starring Stephen Lang and Fred Williamson. Find out what happens when a group of tough guys find themselves up against a gang of mutant punks.
A typical night for a group of war veterans at the local VFW turns into an all-out battle for survival when a teenage girl runs into the bar with a bag of stolen drugs. Suddenly under attack from a gang of punk mutants looking to get back what’s theirs – at any cost – the vets use every weapon they can put together to protect the girl, and their VFW, in the biggest fight of their lives.
5) The Ensemble Cast!
The cast includes Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Martin Kove, Sierra McCormick, David Patrick Kelly, and Dora Madison also star. It’s Assault on Precinct 13 meets Night of the Living Dead!
4) A Siege Movie!
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, director Joe Begos describes his movies as a classic siege movie, “Mutant punks versus Vietnam vets, which to me are the two coolest sets of characters you can have in a genre movie. So, to be able to pit them against each other is a cinematic playground for me.”
3) The Hammer!
What a merciless movie this is…@FANGORIA @CINESTATE @IAmStephenLang @joebegos @Wm_Sadler pic.twitter.com/pl9BGZ6GGO
— Martin Kove (@MartinKove) December 19, 2019
Begos mentions working with the “walking, talking, living legend,” Fred “the Hammer” Williamson, “I mean, the dude will just walk in to a room and he’ll own it. It was so nice to be able to work with him. He did all of this own stunts.”
2) That Stunt!
Begos reminisces about a stunt involving Williamson, “We broke a chair over him. I told him, ‘Fred, we’re going to be throwing this chair pretty hard at you.’ He looks and me [and says] ‘You’d better get it right the first time.’ And he’s 81, too, so that dude was taking some hits.”
1) Back To Back!
Begos reveals how he managed to work on VFW and Bliss back to back, “I love crazy-ass hallucinatory arthouse horror movies but I also love white-knuckle f—ing straight-up genre pictures, The fact that I can do both of those in a short amount of time is really quite exhilarating.”
VFW will be released in theaters, VOD, and Digital HD on February 14th, 2019.