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Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies

by | Jul 26, 2026

Movie poster for Champagne and Bullets.

Thankfully the movie is bonkers enough to live up to the artwork. | Image: Vinegar Syndrome

There’s something about a movie like The Room, Troll 2, or Fateful Findings that I find irresistible. These sorts of “so bad they’re good” films are marvelous curiosities where ambition far outstrips resources, ability, and self-awareness to become something much greater than the sum of their parts. Champagne and Bullets (also released as GetEven and Road to Revenge) is a film on par with those classics of outsider cinema.

The movie is almost entirely the work of one man, John De Hart. Hart wrote, directed, and stars as Rick Bode in the film. He even performs a musical number early in the proceedings – The bizarre “Shimmy Slide.” During th …

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