Hectic Knife
''Hectic Knife'' is a superhero comedy film about a knife-wielding vigilante who fights against drug dealers, murderers and other "baddies," including Piggly Doctor, a villain bent on world domination. The idea for the film gestated as Peter Litvin, who later co-wrote, starred in, and produced the film, and director Greg DeLiso were working on a series titled ''Short Films for Nobody.'' Filming began in 2010 and wrapped in 2015. Shortly after the film was finished, DeLiso and Litvin secured distribution via Troma Entertainment. Plot ''Hectic Knife'' is a meta-homage-parody of super-hero genre films, in the vein of ''Airplane!'' and ''Not Another Teen Movie''. The film is a deconstruction of the generic character-types and origin-story tropes of big-budget Hollywood movies featuring dark and brooding anti-hero/vigilantes, such as ''Batman'' and ''The Punisher''. In an interview with Film Threat, DeLiso listed some of the influences, which included '' Assault on Precinct 13'' and ' ...
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