The film is … not very good. Despite the solid cast, which also includes Freaks and Geeks star Samm Levine, The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus and the legendary George Segal, it’s awkward and disquietingly dated at times. Still, it’s an interesting artifact, not just because it features a pre-Norse god Hemsworth, but because it was written by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof. Reportedly, Lindelof originally wrote Ollie Klublershturf as a one-act play purely to get a meeting with future Lost collaborator Carlton Cuse, who asked Lindelof’s agent for a piece of sample writing.
For some reason, that hastily-written piece was then used as the basis for this short – which was later incorporated into a feature-length anthology film called Heroes & Demons that seemingly collected short films starring famous people and crammed them into one package. Hemsworth, who as we mentioned has a supporting role in a goofy ten minute short, even gets top billing.
The dramatic music may have been a tad misleading though, considering it was in the service of a film containing the phrase “cosmic fart.”
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