24. A Horror Film Directed by Charles Roxburgh

At the end of Heard She Got Married, Mitch Owens (Matt Farley) has returned home from Nashville, and all his old friends have become enemies; the girls he once loved have married his friends. And to watch this — it’s streaming and doesn’t say that it’s a sequel, so some could be lost — you have to know that Mitch has lost it and done something horrible.

Unlike everyone else in the world, when people tell Mitch something, he believes it if it lives up to his dream of playing music. Just those moments when he is on stage and it works make it all worthwhile, even if he’s now a big fish in a small pond. But for a little while, he was the only person in Tritown to get away.

With Tara gone — which you need to see the last movie, and I don’t want to spoil it, but maybe she isn’t gone — Mitch starts to rebuild his life, starting a new band, even if people want to call them The Barricades. The promoter wants them to be beefy. The band might not be able to handle the nonstop creativity that Mitch needs. And the promoter cuts their sound, just as Detective Mayo (Jay Mayo) is convinced that Mitch couldn’t have done the crimes he’s been accused of. Promoters never want to pay and always look for ways out. Mitch might even have a new love interest (Theresa Peterson), or he’s always looking for ways to get his music played.

Every Moturn movie that Roxburgh and Farley make gets stuck in my head because they feel real. I’ve actually spoken with Matt, and his unbridled need to make things is real. I always wonder how much is true and how much is the movie; I don’t want to know, I just want to see everything they make.

I take it personally when people leave negative reviews of these. Seriously, it’s like someone talking shit on one of my friends’ bands.

There are teasers for three different sequels: Heard He Got Multiplied, Evil DJ and Sinister Siesta. I’m ready for all of them. The Moturn Cinematic Universe is a real thing. This ties in several of the films and feels like it goes full mad science, just like Magic Spot. Again: here for all of it.

You can watch this on Fawesome.