Exploitation films have made their way to the main stream with the popularity of movies like Planet Terror, Death Proof and the recent Machete. Moreover, filmmakers like Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino take their love affair with grind house films and create something new. Something like a Human Centipede of filmmaking. First time filmmaker, Frankie Latina delivers a new and very exciting entry into the exploitation spy genre with Modus Operandi. A high powered film that surprises with every turn creating something I have personally never seen on the screen.
Roughly Modus Operandi tells the story of Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell), a highly dangerous Black Ops C.I.A. agent who has fallen into a deep and tortuous depression when his wife is brutally murdered. But when two briefcases are stolen from a presidential candidate (Michael Sottile), Cashay takes the deadly mission to find the briefcases and to ultimately seek...
Roughly Modus Operandi tells the story of Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell), a highly dangerous Black Ops C.I.A. agent who has fallen into a deep and tortuous depression when his wife is brutally murdered. But when two briefcases are stolen from a presidential candidate (Michael Sottile), Cashay takes the deadly mission to find the briefcases and to ultimately seek...
- 9/9/2010
- by Rudie Obias
- CriterionCast
Chicago – Day Two of the Chicago Underground Film Festival saves one of its most underground features for the appropriately late 10:30pm time slot. “Modus Operandi” is an indescribable James Bondage spoof (pun intended) that puts the “Be-Be-Be” in the bonnet of an underground B-Movie blast.
Part intentional grindhouse parody, part little-boys-playing-with-special-effects-toys, Modus Operandi has more quality kills and women willing to get nekkid than most Friday nights switching between the Chiller Network and Cinemax.
Fate Opens the Door for Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell) in ‘Modus Operandi’
Photo credit: Frankie Latina Motion Pictures
Presidential candidate Squire Parks (Michael Sottile) has two important briefcases stolen from him at a key moment in the campaign. Only one man can retrieve such sensitive and potential blackmailing material, and that is Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell). Cashay is Black Ops, but has been underground since the murder of his wife.
When Cashay does get involved,...
Part intentional grindhouse parody, part little-boys-playing-with-special-effects-toys, Modus Operandi has more quality kills and women willing to get nekkid than most Friday nights switching between the Chiller Network and Cinemax.
Fate Opens the Door for Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell) in ‘Modus Operandi’
Photo credit: Frankie Latina Motion Pictures
Presidential candidate Squire Parks (Michael Sottile) has two important briefcases stolen from him at a key moment in the campaign. Only one man can retrieve such sensitive and potential blackmailing material, and that is Stanley Cashay (Randy Russell). Cashay is Black Ops, but has been underground since the murder of his wife.
When Cashay does get involved,...
- 6/26/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
When we started putting together a feature for Frankie Latina's Directorial Debut, Modus Operandi, we were looking at it as a feature for our Gorezone® website. You see, Modus is one of those films that can't be limited to just one genre. Sure there's the prerequisite gore to bring it into Fango territory, but there's also elements of hardcore exploitation, violence, and some good-old-fashioned nudity. Plus, it won over Fango's Matt Molgaard, so we're bringing this feature to Fangoria.
At last month's CineVegas Festival, The Hollywood Reporter said that Modus Operandi was "one of the world premieres to make a splash." With a cast that includes bad-ass Danny Trejo (MacHete) and American Movie's Mark Borchardt, why shouldn't it?
Examining Frankie Latina'S Modus Operandi - by Matt Molgaard
Two briefcases are stolen from presidential candidate Squire (Michael Sottile) Parks. The contents of said briefcases is initially unknown, but...
At last month's CineVegas Festival, The Hollywood Reporter said that Modus Operandi was "one of the world premieres to make a splash." With a cast that includes bad-ass Danny Trejo (MacHete) and American Movie's Mark Borchardt, why shouldn't it?
Examining Frankie Latina'S Modus Operandi - by Matt Molgaard
Two briefcases are stolen from presidential candidate Squire (Michael Sottile) Parks. The contents of said briefcases is initially unknown, but...
- 7/4/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
- Fangoria
Editor’s Note: This is one of a series of interviews with directors whose films are screening at the 2009 CineVegas Film Festival. “Modus Operandi” (USA, 2009) World Premiere Director: Frankie Latina Cast: Randy Russell, Mark Borchardt, Michael Sottile, Danny Trejo, Barry Poltermann, Sarah Price, Xavier Leplae, Ayesha Mohan “Modus Operandi” is a revenge tale about a desperate CIA agent on a mission to find the man who murdered his wife. What …...
- 6/10/2009
- indieWIRE - People
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