Sleeve text:

The Byzarre Brothers are back!

Continuing straight on from Byzarre Brothers: The Movie, Byzarre Brothers 2: IG tells the story of what happened once Jake the Frat had been dealt with, once the Termite Eater had completed his mission and once the Byzarre Brothers had finished their first successful case.

All seems calm and tranquil in the aftermath of Jake’s failed toupee apocalypse - but not for long. The murder of TE by a strange man in black heralds the opening of a second chapter of disaster as Fred D’Albert unleashes his plan for world domination (naturally). A plan which only the Byzarre Brothers can foil. Or can they?

Starring Phil Hayes as Frank Byzarre, Mark Davis as Francis Byzarre, Rob Short as Jake the Frat, Paul Rostance as the Doom Crew, Richard Gnosill as Fred D’Albert, Glenn Reed as Professor Glendali, Stuart Thompson as TE, Lucy Thomas as Beverly Hills with Clair Rostance, Tim Burroughs and Caroline Noakes. Written by Phil Hayes, based on characters created by Phil Hayes and Mark Davis. Produced and directed by Phil Hayes.

Plot:

The 23 April 1952, and a spaceship hurtles to earth in a fireball, somewhere over South America.

Over thirty-seven years later and the Byzarre Brothers are trying to break into Jake the Frat’s HQ (as seen in the end sequences of Byzarre Brothers: The Movie). Unseen by anybody, the Termite Eater is viciously gunned down by a mysterious figure in a black suit.

Jake the Frat has leaped into his sports car and vanished in a flash of white light. The Byzarre Brothers are holding a press conference to tell the world of their victory over the purple psychopath when they are chased by a trio of manic female fans. They manage to lose them up a side street, just in time to see Jake’s car reappear. Jake emerges, armed with a cowboy gun (which looks suspiciously like a tap) which he threatens the duo with. Glendali rushes up to tell them that the Termite Eater has been killed and they rush off before Jake can execute his fiendish plan - much to the purple one’s chagrin.

The Byzarre Brothers search TE’s body and find a mysterious note. They’re too dim to interpret it, but with the help of a recorded message from M C Donald S, they discover that Jake is due to meet with another top flight villain - Fred D’Albert (pronounced ‘Duh Albert’). The Byzarre Brothers decide to stop this meeting by disguising Francis as Jake. They visit the Doom Crew for help, and admire John Doom Crew One’s newly permed hair (he liked having a toupee so much).

Fred D’Albert has kidnapped one of the Byzarre Brothers’ fans - Abby Rhodes - and is holding her hostage. She scoffs at the idea that the BB would be so stupid as to rush in unprepared. True to form, they rush in unprepared. Fred D’Albert and his henchman tie them up and stand them against the wall for a firing squad. The proceedings are interrupted when a hairy man appears with a large stick. They all run away and get back to the job in hand of kidnapping Jake and replacing him with Francis.

The Doom Crew drop Jake off at the house of rival supervillain, Beverly Hills, who is none too pleased at the prospect of having a Frat to get rid off. Fred soon realises he’s been duped and forces Beverly to hold a dinner party. He appears as the host, and serves up the remains of the Termite Eater to Frank, Francis and John Doom Crew One. Fred runs off, Francis falls under the table drunk and Frank has an odd dream in which he’s visited by a weird white eyed silouhette. The figure gives Frank a ring and talks a lot of eliptical rubbish. When Frank awakes, the rings is on his finger, but it falls off and he kicks under the chair without noticing it was ever there.

Jake summons the Byzarre Brothers to his lair, and like fools they decide to go. On the way they bump into Glendali and Studali. Studali is TE’s identical twin brother (only slightly dimmer) - and is looking for revenge against Fred D’Albert for killing his brother.

Fred ambushes Jake’s meeting and threatens Jake and the Byzarre Brothers for interfering with his plan to create a new series of “Terry and June”. Fred is going to use a “time bomb” to send the trio five months into the future, by which time Fred will have finished his plan and they will be forced to face the terrible consequences. Francis tries to defuse the bomb, but only succeeds in reversing the polarity. The bomb explodes - sending Jake, Frank, Francis, Glendali, Studali and the Doom Crew all five months into the past.

Francis buys a paper and learns that it’s 15 December 1989. Glendali realises that they mustn’t interfere with the past, as it could change what happened and endanger their existence. They split up in an attempt to track down what Fred was up to in the past, but Glendali accidentally bumps into himself. The earlier Glendali realises that time travel is possible, and in his excitement runs into the road and is killed. The current Glendali vanishes, and Jake the Frat reverts to Eager - as the toupee experiments never took place. Eager realises that the longer they leave things the worse it’ll get - and that everything will unravel.

Fred D’Albert catches a glimpse of the current Doom Crew spying on him. He catches up with the original Doom Crew and kills them, causing the current duo to vanish. Fearing that Fred may find their earlier selves, the Byzarre Brothers give chase. Unfortunately Frank bumps into the original Francis and changes history so that Frank fails to take their car in for a repair. The Byzarre Brothers would have both been killed by faulty steering and vanish in a puff of stupidity.

Studali is watching from outside and reports back to Eager. Moments later he is also killed by Fred. Eager realises that it’s now or never. At Fred’s warehouse, he finds the villain’s briefcase and plants a bomb in it. He too is soon murdered by Fred D’Albert.

Back in the present day, Fred is about to plant the time bomb to send them all into the future, when he explodes. Nobody knows what happened, but they’re all pleased. A quick stroll around the car park gives the Byzarre Brothers a chance to tie up a few loose ends, before another chase away from manic fans...

Notes:

This film continues directly on from Byzarre Brothers: The Movie. In fact, it even features events which didn’t appear at the end of the first film (TE’s death as the Byzarre Brothers break into Jake’s dungeon HQ), as Phil hadn’t written them yet. It also features events from 1952, 1989 and there’s a reference to 1881. So there.

Instead of cutting dialogue from the final voice over scene, Phil decided that they should walk backwards and forwards on the spot to give the illusion that the car park was bigger. It didn’t work. In any way.

Credits:

Frank Byzarre - Phillip Hayes
Francis Byzarre - Mark Davis
Jake The Frat/Eager - Rob Short
The Doom Crew - Paul Rostance
Fred D’Albert - Richard Gnosill
Abby Rhodes - Clair Rostance
Glendali - Glenn Reed
Studali/TE - Stuart Thompson
Antonio Gombo - Tim Burroughs
Beverly Hills - Lucy Thomas
The Courier - David Hayes
Penny Lane - Caroline Noakes
Alice Springs - Becki Jones
Francesca Byzarre - Anna Higgins
Man in Black - BM

Screenplay by Phillip Hayes, based on his story “Who Killed Studali?”
Directed and produced by Phillip Hayes

Cinematography - Stuart Thompson
Camera dudes - The Mood Crew
Graphics - Paul Rostance
Grip - Julian

Transport - Rob Short
Special FX - BSE/STY

Director’s Lunch - Pot Noodle
Chateau Frat by Anne T Freiz

Nervous breakdowns - the cast
Costumes by Naff Naff
Glendali’s T Shirt designed by Glenn Reed

Filmed on location in Walsall, Streetly, Aldridge in Summer 1991.

This film is dedicated to the memory of the Termite Eater. Long may he rest in peace and not be resurrected by any naff plot device.

Duration:

56min:05secs.