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Damned! is an amateur film written, produced, & directed by James "Murr" Murray and also features cameo appearances by both himself and Salvatore "Sal" Vulcano.


About it[]

It is a "low budget" straight-to-DVD nearly feature-length b-movie amateur motion picture that has a whole 1980s movie feel to it, which about an alternate universe re-telling of the classic tale of the original story of the Bible set in in the modern world, consisting of three nonsensical, interesting, and hilarious interconnected stories with random shenanigans of absurdity and insanity that are told in a nature documentary-esque format.

The picture quality resembles a horrible and cheap Saturday morning vintage z-grade teensploitation matinee that literally looks like garage filmmaking done in someone's cousin's garage with zero budget over a couple weekends, features described events that happen through white text on black backgrounds, such ridiculous but professional looking photography shots, and lots of action sequences involving sloppy looking fights with fake handheld and in-your-face punches and kicks that aren’t synchronized to legitimate sound effects, a ridiculously ugly and really cheesy special effect of lightning coming from Jesus’ hands, and one cartoony special effect.

The stars of the film are a couple of his soon-to-be college roommates, who look like a display of non-talented human subjects from a destitute teenage theater troupe of unprofessional actors and actresses, standing in center-frame and reciting their unbelievably horrible lines off cue cards without rehearsing their dialogue.

The main cast of characters include Murr's own personalized fan-made original character versions of official canon important comedic religious Biblical figures based upon the religion of Christianity such as God, Joseph, Mary, Noah and Moses. Obviously, this version of Jesus is not the one many followers will look up to, because he is a young and mischievous teenager, who is sort of whiney in an over-the-top manner after finds out he is adopted, and decides to personally meet God, his real father, whom he refuses to call "Dad", but his antics lead him into trouble with the big man Himself. Larry is a guardian angel who is fed up with protecting the same person and seeks to get away from his boring and mundane job and tries to kill him by any means necessary, only to realize the guy he swore to protect is actually a great guy. Moses and Noah are employees in the DMV-esque unemployment section of Heaven.

The supporting cast of characters are newly-created original characters exclusively made for this film. Manuel Hossenfeffer Rodriguez is a Bible mystery solver, who hosts "Mysteries Of The Bible: Solved" segments and tries to emphasize how bold he is. Herbie Falafen, the most cartoon-like of all the movie’s characters, is a guy who is actually kind of insane and gets excited over breakfast being the most important meal of the day, random bowling balls, and an electric train set. There is also a nudist man named James Patterson.

Cast of characters[]

The adults:

Elizabeth Wood as Mary/Disgusted Angel

David Skigen as Joseph

Marti Cooney as Mrs. Baker/Hoagie Woman

Laurence Frommer as Mr. Baker

Hank Poje as James Peterson/God/Smitty

James P. Murray as George

Lino Alvarez as Dr. Puglia/Yelling Angel

Pete Barker as Moses

Ken Dray as Noah

Hillary Gouse as Sandy Weinberg

Lyle Silversmith as Max Weinberg

Jonathan Beatrice as Scared Angel

Colin Liander as Roman Centurion

Michael Rigby as Roman Centurion

Patrick Nicholas as Satan

The teenagers:

Ronney Ascher as Manuel Hossenfeffer Rodriguez

Jeremy Guskin as Jesus

Sal Vulcano as Lawn Mower Boy

Matthew Glass as Larry

Jonah Zeiger as Vinny

Kelley Rae O'Donnell as Play Angel

David Hubbell as Herbie Falafen

Dennis Meehan as Ham Slicing Boy

Jason Hom as Ezekiel Weinberg

Christopher Morgan as Bar Wiping Boy

James S. Murray as Judas

Trivia[]

In the episode Damned If You Do, Murr lost the episode and was forced to sit amongst a small audience of film fans in a small movie theater to get a really, really rough and harsh reminder of his indie film roots by watching a screening of his own failed, shameful, amateurish, embarrassing, and inappropriate garbage disasterpiece. After the movie was over, distinguished film critic Alison Bailes invited Murr downstage for an in-depth Q&A and she interviewed him to the people and he had to speak about how he made a $30,000 movie that was very loosely based on the story of the Bible and follows the misadventures of an ultra-modern-day world teenage version of Jesus at the turn of the 21st century with a lot of rock music on the soundtrack, rather than the characters getting to experience of living according to the literal pages of the Bible in a modern setting would be like, and then she tells him that she personally disliked it and made it blatantly obvious that his film was terrible.

Murr had created, written, directed, and produced his own indie feature film on a shoestring budget when he was an 18-year-old fresh-out-of-high school boy, although he took no movie classes. His parents originally offered to buy him a brand-new Ford Taurus as a graduation gift, and the car came with a power sunroof, integrated cellphone, leather seats, a seat cushion in between the bucket seats that can fold out into a flip-fold center console with a lockable storage bin and cupholders that rest against the dashboard, a 6-disc CD changer, and a personal safety system with sensors in the seats that detect both the driver and a passenger's weight and position and inflates the airbags to match. But, at his request, he just wanted the exact amount of money that the car would cost, so, Mr. and Mrs. Murray gave their son $21,285, a considerable sum of their own money, since he was in favor of wanting to try his hand at being a media producer and creating his own movie. He even dedicated the movie to his parents with the credit "Special thanks to Mama and Papa Murray without whom there would be no film.", as they were the task-masters behind the funding for the production. Looking back on this moment, Murr says that his biggest regret is having passed on the car by not using the funds for that far more practical purpose, as he realizes that his teenage self was too naive because he took no movie classes, so he was unaware of needing experience in creating films without much money, didn't know the basic rules of filmmaking that include rehearsing lines and experimenting with random emotions to bring characters to life, and just simply wasted every bit of the $30,000 to create poor special effects, costume designs that are obviously taken from a dollar store during Halloween month for the actors, and buy the most expensive cameras, microphones, and other equipment for the crew people in order to construct a cohesive three act structure, although it looks like only 40 or 50 bucks actually ended up on-screen. He even out right stated that if he was able to go back in time, he would take the car.

This film is Murr's earliest piece of media, which is now worth a dollar and belongs in a DVD bin located at a gas station. He tried to hide it from existence, since it didn't earn him a reputation for a specific taste of storytelling to help engage the viewer on an adventure for clues, excitement, & suspense, and just the mere memory of the movie causes instant regret and embarrassment for him.

Murr's dad makes even a discreet appearance in the movie as George, the old and drunk angel in the bar, who refuses to give up his old-school wings.

Watch[]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwAWwLtSX7I&ab_channel=HardcoreMusicOrDie

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