Emily Osment and Emmanuelle Chiriquias as hit women in the web series 'Cleaners'
One of the worst side effects when drive-in movie theaters died was that they took trashy second features with them.
Now, with the release of Crackle’s original series “Cleaners,” the spirit of those trashy second features proudly lives on.
Yes!
“Cleaners,” which will be released Thursday on crackle.com, has everything we loved about sleazy drive-in flicks: lots of gruesome killings, tough-talking chicks with big guns and tight cutoff jeans, sneering bad guys and a low-budget shimmer that’s way too obvious not to be deliberate.
The script isn’t exactly “King Lear,” so it fits the rest of the flick nicely and prevents any of the acting from getting too fancy.
The name stars of “Cleaners” are David Arquette, as an FBI agent, and Gina Gershon, as the proprietor of a small business that specializes in contract killing but is available for kidnapping and other incidental work.
Gershon’s character is known as Mother, and she and Arquette mostly set up the real stars, Emmanuelle Chriqui and Emily Osment, who play a mismatched pair of professional killers named Veronica and Roxy. Roxy is Mother’s daughter.
Veronica and Roxy run into a glitch on a routine job that makes both Mother and the FBI want to find them and kill them.
Killing is Roxy’s and Vernoica’s wheelhouse, though, and adversaries would be wise to think twice before turning them into Thelma and Louise.
Happily for us, the adversaries don’t, which should guarantee this six-episode series will be resplendent with hard talk and ingenious killing.
Pass the popcorn.
dhinckley@nydailynews.com
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