Vegas Days Film Clip #3: Six-String Samurai

Our third Digital Vegas Days clip is the trailer for one of the more unusual "let's go to Vegas!" movies you're likely to see. It's Six-String Samurai, a rock-and-roll road trip action/comedy across a devastated America to the Oz-like last free state of Lost Vegas.

A deadpan kung-fu rocker named Buddy (Jeffrey Falcon, who also wrote and produced) heads to Vegas with the goal of becoming Elvis' successor -- the new King of Rock 'n' Roll. However, after the atomic war of 1957 Vegas isn't what it used to be. Buddy, accompanied by a tagalong orphan, hits the road armed with his guitar and bearing an uncanny resemblence to another Buddy of rock-and-roll legend. He wields his samurai sword against a host of lethal enemies -- brutish bowlers, '50s TV cannibals, underground mutants, the Russian army, and Death himself (an avid heavy metal fan) -- on his way to glory.

Meanwhile we get the weird and fun indie cult fave that brought those Siberian surf rockers, the Red Elvises, to our attention, and we've been thankful ever since.

Buddy: "If you scratch my guitar, I'll kill you."

Satellite DJ (a dead ringer for >Wolfman Jack): You're listening to KLOST, home of the Apocalypse. The call-in question of the day is: Who will be the new king? I'm sending in an ICBM across the wasteland for all of you on the yellow brick road to Vegas looking for a hero. If you find one send him my way, baby.

Buddy: You still there? [Marks a line on the ground with his katana.] Cross that line, kid, I'll cut your little teddy bear in half. Last kid that crossed that line, I had to summon up the Spinach Monster with my rock 'n' roll magic. The Spinach Monster grabbed him, pulled him underground and made him eat spinach all day. Rumor has it, kid, he's still there.

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