Uncle Peckerhead Review and Summary
Uncle Peckerhead is a movie that tries to fill a B-list vibe while being horror comedy. It leans hard into teasing the punk scene and metalheads and other genres of alternative culture (in a silly we're trying to make the characters the epitome of this idea sorta way). Short summary to follow. (leaving out some details)
It's heavy in gore (splatter gore) for those who do not want to see/read/hear that.
Small local punk band catches a break and starts their first tour. Their van gets repo-ed and they start flyering asking to borrow vans. One of the vans they flyer belongs to a man who claims his name is Peckerhead (Peck for short). Peck says he'll be their roadie and drive them around if they spot him on gas. They all agree. First show first night of the tour is disappointing, they're the only band scheduled and the promoter is an asswipe. Midnight rolls around after the show and Peck claims he needs to use the bathroom before they hit the road to find somewhere to sleep the night.
Peck takes a while, Judy (bassist) grows impatient and goes to check on him and discovers a gruesome awful scene where a demon who looks like Peck has ripped apart and eaten the promoter. She runs and yells to start the van and get the fuck out of there. The keys are with Peck.
Peck comes out covered in blood claims Judy is lying about what she saw and after the band goes to see for themselves he asks to take the band to dinner to explain and apologize. They agree (except Judy) and he says it was because the promoter sucked and he was sticking up for the band and he has it under control. He claims he uses heroin to put himself to sleep so he doesn't turn.
Max and Mel (Judy's bandmates) out vote Judy to keep Peck on because he apologized and seemed sincere. Judy is not happy with this and lets everyone know. She begins to treat Peck in a stand-offish manner and tries to regularly steal the keys to the van.
Things seem fine for a while, everyone sort of settles in with each other. Judy puts Peck to sleep and another night goes by but no one seems to have been harmed. Next day rolls around and next show. A rival band has been introduced, lead guy is a dickhead. They perform well and Judy goes to bed early nervous about Peck. Overnight Peck kills some metalheads who were mean to Max with the permission of Mel.
Judy is not happy when she learns about this in the morning but Max and Mel seem to think it was fun and cool. Next show and rival band is being dicks and making vague threats. Peck sells tons of demos pre-show and then gets the crowd to start a small moshpit for Duh (the band). Everyone feels they performed well and have a tiny celebration. Judy tells Peck he's a good guy and she trusts him. Everyone goes to sleep at the motel.
Next show rival band is opening for Duh and being shitty and weird again. Duh performs well and asks the crowd if anyone has somewhere they can crash. After the show a girl comes up and says they can crash at her grandma's and that another band is staying there as well.
Rival band is staying there and being shitty no surprise. Peck gets a small bed and Judy and everyone else stays in the living room. Judy goes out to get stuff from the van and comes back in to find Mel alone watching the news. The new report is saying there was 2 people murdered at the motel they stayed at. Judy freaks and goes to see where Peck is. He is not in his room.
Panicked Mel and Judy look for Max. They find him tied up in the rival bands room. They end up tied up as well. The rival band says they're doing this so they can open the big show Duh landed since they can't make it if they're tied up in a different town. Knock at the door and its the girl saying quiet down. Minutes later there is a weird growl outside the door and when the rival band opens the door all fucking hell breaks loose and they get absolutely fucking obliterated. Ripped to shreds and eaten.
Duh has had enough of the trauma induced by Peck. Peck has kidnapped the girl and grandma and is driving Duh (covered in blood and also Peck's shit I GUESS?) to their big show. Peck gets voted out and he makes a threat about it almost being midnight. Duh is close to a big break as a record is wanting to sign them and right as they're about to go on stage Peck walks off and cops arrest Duh in association to the murders.
Thanks to girl and grandma Duh is being acquitted due to mistrial (or some shit) because they said Peck was the one who did all the killing. Duh claims to have been taken hostage by Peck. They go to play a show after being released and everything is going great. Judy sees Peck in the audience and then her alarm indicating its almost midnight beeps and the audience goes from cheers to terror.
I think Peck's character is fun as he's really quite sweet and silly outside of the whole murderer thing. I think that makes the movie more interesting to watch because you find yourself enjoying him and wanting good for him. I think they leaned a little too hard into the epitome of (the scene they were trying to go for) at first and it was initially stiff. Acting became more fluid as the movie went on. Peck's acting was good imo. I think this movie is silly and enjoyable if you're looking for a gore-y comedy to watch(?)
TW: Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Drug Usage
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