Rare signed DVD of film programmer/critic/cartoonist Steve Macfarlane's underground indie film SHIRT TERMINATORS, made between 2009 and 2013, starring Ariel Rodriguez and Herbert Marcel. Includes director's commentary, behind the scenes photo gallery, soundtrack mp3s and bonus early short film by the director. 1 out of 50 limited edition DVDs made in 2014.

from the film's premiere at the 2013 La Di Da Film Festival:

"SHIRT TERMINATORS is a miniDV party epic, shot on fourteen non-continuous days and stitched together over the ensuing four years, claiming over two Executive Producers per minute. Charting one pivotal day in the lives of its titular heroes - Dwaide (Ariel Rodriguez) and Sandy (Herbert Marcel) - the film was inspired by energy drinks, the golden era of MTV music videos, Nollywood, classic cop films and a forever-yawning summer afternoon."

from Kentucker Audley, NoBudge.Com: 

"I came across a trailer for this film years ago, in the early days of NoBudge, and have been trying to get it on the site ever since. I didn't know if it was an actual film or just a joke trailer for a fake movie. Well now I've seen the whole thing and it doesn't disappoint (well actually it kinda does, but that's the point). A completely ludicrous film, genius-level harebrained. Two friends on parole find a gun that zaps away shirts and start learning the ropes until the gun starts to come between them. "What if we get thrown in the joint again?" worries one of the friends, before starting to second guess ever zapping shirts: "Did you ever think about what happens to these shirts after we shoot them off?". The idea here is to cherish anything cheap. No-def imagery, raw sound - different ambiance with every angle change, wind hitting the microphone. Nothing is seamless. Nothing believable. Wooden & rickety to hilarious effect. Every time I've watched, it's more brilliant. Recommended viewing 3-5 times."

from filmmaker Aaron Schimberg (A DIFFERENT MAN):

“...Rumors of SHIRT TERMINATORS’ existence persisted for years. Mutual friends either assured me that it was on the cusp of completion, or else doubted its very existence. So it was a pleasant surprise when the 37-minute film actually materialized at New York’s La Di Da Film Festival last year. And yet the film introduced its own, new mysteries. Kind of like a gun that terminates shirts, the film feels like a divine gift designed to liberate, excite, embarrass, provoke and entertain us.”

from the sole review on Letterboxd: 

"Obviously with a short film titled Shirt Terminators expectations going in are relatively low to non-existent, but there was still the outside chance of some dumb fun to be had. I mean the film centers around two parolees finding a gun that zaps away shirts in the basement of a church. Surprisingly though, the dumb fun was no where to be found, perhaps it was zapped away with the shirts (high-fives self).The two go about killing shirts left and right in the park and then stumble upon the fact that it also kills tank tops just as effectively. Then one of the guys starts to worry about where the shirts go...wondering that, perhaps, "they end up in the stomach of a baby somewhere and they grow up all <redacted> because of it". Nothing about this is good. The premise is befuddlingly wonderful yet the execution is downright awful in every sense. A short film about a shirt-killing gun should not be this dull. Everyone knows that."