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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist with a black belt in Kendo Karate and training in Judo and Muay Thai. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.

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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist with a black belt in Kendo Karate and training in Jiujitsu, Boxing, Kali, Judo and Muay Thai. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.
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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist with a black belt in Kendo Karate. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.

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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist with a black belt in Kendo Karate.Karate and training in Judo and Muay Thai. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.
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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.

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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist.artist with a black belt in Kendo Karate. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.

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* AmateurCast: The other actors were Jimmy Bennett's friends who he asked to take part.



* CreatorBacklash:
** For Mikey Graham anyway. For a member of a band like Boyzone, who have a collective career load of {{Old Shame}}s, this is really saying something. Apparently, he appeared in this movie as a favour for a friend.
** Jimmy Bennett cheerfully admits that he had no idea what he was doing, and the film is "so bad it's good".



* OldShame: For Mikey Graham anyway. For a member of a band like Boyzone, who have a collective career load of {{Old Shame}}s, this is really saying something. Apparently, he appeared in this movie as a favour for a friend.
* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted; Bennett flipped the car over while turning on a dirt road. Him and the director rolled with it and added a scene where the car explodes.

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* OldShame: For Mikey Graham anyway. For a member of a band like Boyzone, who have a collective career load of {{Old Shame}}s, this is really saying something. Apparently, SerendipityWritesThePlot: Jimmy Bennett became aware that Hong Kong producers wanted to work with him, so he appeared in this movie made the film as a favour for a friend.
essentially one long audition tape.
* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted; Bennett flipped the car over while turning on a dirt road. Him and the director rolled with it and added a scene where the car explodes.explodes.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The film was originally shot with a Sony [=Hi8=] camera that accidentally got destroyed during filming, so everything had to be reshot in SVHS.
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* ColbertBump: Strangely enough, a pro wrestling Youtube series called OSW Review has spread the word significantly on this movie; the three individuals behind OSW are Irish, and they love the movie dearly despite its poor quality. In fact, despite having a mostly American audience, their full review of ''Fatal Deviation'' won their year-end award for best video, and they have a watchalong of the movie every St. Patrick's Day on their Twitch channel.
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* NoBudget: This movie cost £8900 to make.

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* NoBudget: This movie cost £8900 to make. The thing that sums up the lack of budget is that they couldn't even fork out for a credit card for a scene involving cutting up cocaine, so they used a loyalty card from a supermarket instead.

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* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Mikey Graham is far and away the only person in this film who looks like he's acted before. He does a reasonable job, especially [[{{Narm}} considering the film's script]].

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* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Mikey Graham is far
unscripted; Bennett flipped the car over while turning on a dirt road. Him and away the only person in this film who looks like he's acted before. He does director rolled with it and added a reasonable job, especially [[{{Narm}} considering scene where the film's script]].car explodes.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Mikey Graham of Boyzone fame as TheDragon. And he's the best actor in the entire film. Seriously.
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* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted.

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* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted.unscripted.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Mikey Graham is far and away the only person in this film who looks like he's acted before. He does a reasonable job, especially [[{{Narm}} considering the film's script]].
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* TheCastShowoff: Jimmy Bennett is an actual martial artist. The film is mostly an excuse for him to show off his skills.
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* OldShame: For Mikey Graham anyway. For a member of a band like Boyzone, who have a collective career load of {{Old Shame}}s, this is really saying something. Apparently, he appeared in this movie as a favour for a friend.

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* OldShame: For Mikey Graham anyway. For a member of a band like Boyzone, who have a collective career load of {{Old Shame}}s, this is really saying something. Apparently, he appeared in this movie as a favour for a friend.friend.
* ThrowItIn: The car crash in the climax was unscripted.
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* OldShame: For Mikey Graham anyway. For a member of a band like Boyzone, who have a collective career load of {{Old Shame}}s, this is really saying something. Apparently, he appeared in this movie as a favour for a friend.
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* NoBudget: This movie cost £8900 to make.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For years, getting a full working copy of this movie was damn near impossible. The film really only gained its cult popularity after Colin Murphy reviewed it on ''Series/TheBlizzardOfOdd''.
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* TheDanza: Pretty much the entire cast. Justified in that none of them had ever acted before and would probably have difficulty responding to other names.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Mikey Graham of Boyzone fame as TheDragon. And he's the best actor in the entire film. Seriously.

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