Synopsis
Tony the Stamper is about to uncover a nasty secret when his mentor and Yoga master, Stanley, goes missing amid a hazardous narcotic gas that has flooded the city streets. It seems that cutting people up is the only way Tony is going to get the answers he needs.
On April 21, 2021, Frumess began work on what would become his second narrative feature-length film, Gouge Away. The film is a sequel to a previously incomplete film called Wash Away (2020). Gouge Away had its world premiere at midnight, Saturday, September 3, 2022, at the GenreBlast Film Festival at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, VA, and winner of the GenreBlast Forever Independent Spirit Award.
B&S About Movies said, “Tony the Stamper uncovers a nasty secret when his mentor Stanley Pedious goes missing as a hazardous narcotic gas is unleashed upon the streets of the city. That’s a basic description for a movie that goes absolutely wild and eventually becomes nearly indescribable and I’m using that as a compliment. This movie is a real journey through whippets and stronger inhalants, as well as a neo-noir underground and yoga breathing if that makes sense and I think it does. It’s definitely something different and works hard to create its own universe that you can’t help but sit back and watch unfold.”
Giallo Julian of Dread Central wrote, “Sounds like the beginning of a Creepypasta, doesn’t it?”
RJ Bland from You’ve Got Red on You wrote, “The plotting may be simplistic and nothing you've not seen before, yet we somehow go into every scene unsure of how it’s going to play out. Think David Lynch but on acid. The scenarios our hero gets into and some of the people he meets are straight out of left field. When your character list contains names such as Lord Fungus, Pickles Zanetti, Uncle Faceneck, and The White Hotdog, you know you’re in for a bit of a trip.”
S. Michael Simms of Morbidly Beautiful said, “We basically have a crime drama with comedic elements, with the style of comedy in this awkward limbo between Napoleon Dynamite and Beverly Hills Cop.”