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Dyke Hard

Country: Sweden, Language: Swedish, 100 mins

  • Director: Bitte Andersson
  • Writer: Bitte Andersson; Martin Borell
  • Producer: Martin Borell; Charles Lidbom

CGiii Comment

There is a rock-solid reason as to why BFI Flare rejected this film...it is unrelentlessly terrible.

As to why other [LGBT] film festivals (and there were a few) decided to include this junk in their program is cause for concern...those curators/exhibitors/programmers (call them what you will) should seek gainful employment elsewhere.

Just because it's LGBT doesn't necessarily mean it's worthy...of exhibition. The thought of people paying to see this...sends shudders down the spine. 

There is a fine line between the 'bad' and the intentionally 'bad' - the latter usually requires a certain sense-of-humour, an un-honed, haphazard talent (but, a talent nonetheless)...and, a few strong characters to make things work. Think John Waters...and Divine, Mink Stole...

Dyke Hard has neither hint nor trace of these requirements...no-one can act. No-one can sing (it is a musical!). As for the writng...a mescaline-meathead could have come up with something more coherent. A clinically depressed gerbil could have been funnier than this...tripe.

This is the nadir of filmmaking (and exhibition).

And now, for the good points...


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

A failed lesbian rock group on their way to a battle of the bands team up with a Thai boxer and together they go through all kinds of adventures with ghosts, ninjas, cyborgs, prison breaks, evil roller-derby girls, motorcycle gangs and a mysterious billionaire.

Cast & Characters

Lina Kurttila as Riff;
Peggy Sands as Peggy;
Maria Wagensjo as Scotty;
Alle Eriksson as Bandito;
Iki Gonzalez as Dawn;
Josephine Wilson as Moira;
Anitha Nygards as Warden Henderson;
Ylva Maria Thompson as Morgana the Ghost;
Ann-Charlotte Andersson as Lola;
Ingrid Andersson as Granny