

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 88% based on reviews from 17 critics. According to Patterson, Sandoval had this style that was all his own and he had this instinct for what he did." Reception ĭue to its limited theatrical release, Dragonslayer was not widely reviewed. During the party, a video featuring Sandoval skating was projected on a wall. When they return, Leslie goes back to school and Sandoval begins working at a bowling alley next to Disneyland.įilmmaker Tristan Patterson met Sandoval at a party in Chino, California. Sandoval and Leslie have a garage sale, then leave for a roadtrip to Arizona and Portland, Oregon. After receiving a phone call from his mother, he says that he had not heard from her in six months, and before that had not heard from her in a year. At one point he is sleeping in a tent in a friend's backyard. At the tattoo parlour, Leslie flips through a skateboard book in which Sandoval is pictured as representative of "odd". He gets a tattoo of a rocket with "Sid" written across it. Sandoval also visits his infant son, Sid, and his ex-girlfriend, Angela.

They smoke marijuana, drink alcohol, hike, and fish.

He spends a lot of time with his girlfriend, Leslie. He also skates at several different skateparks and pools in California. Toward the end of the film, Sandoval and Josh "Peacock" Henderson are interviewed on The Daily Habit where they discuss the effect the recession has had on the availability of empty pools. He skates in the pool a short time before a neighbor threatens to call the police. The film begins with Sandoval cleaning out a pool behind an abandoned house. It was shot in various California towns as well as Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. The film follows Josh "Skreech" Sandoval, a skateboarder living in California.
