A gleefully pointless, highly kinetic film, Rudolph seems inspired by Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight. The title character, creepily played by Edward Balli, is a violent punk in clown makeup with knife scars that slit his mouth into a wider grin. At one point, he even hangs out of a car window and throws his head back in the night breeze. Sound familiar?

Of course, there are other references. Rudolph and his merry band of pranksters strut and terrorize like Alex and his droogs in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. There's also something about the way these beautiful, disaffected young people relate to each other and pose all pretty and sinister for the camera that brings to mind the films of Gregg Araki, especially his apocalyptic The Doom Generation.

The movie is visually arresting from its opening moments, when director Adam Stephenson shows us a bright-red head of hair framed against a magic-hour sky. It appears to be set on Halloween. Rudulph and his gang go trick-or-treating in decidedly homicidal fashion. They knock off a convenience store, go for a ride, and drink copious amounts of alcohol in an alleyway. One of the dudes spits up and gets the beating of his life.

Like I said, completely pointless but giddy. The electro music really kicks things up a notch about 90 seconds in, and Stephenson keeps the action ultra-stylish with shock cuts and skewed framing choices. This video is a lot of fun.