CHATHAM — Independent filmmaker Jim Riffel's quest to give $10,000 to a celebrity to review his movie is over.

Barry Williams, better known to many as Greg Brady, the oldest of the boys in the Brady Bunch TV show, reviewed the movie, “Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead, Part 5.”

The money was donated to charity.

Williams said he chose to do the review only after receiving assurances from Riffel and the film’s producer, Mark Zobian, that he could give his unbiased opinion.

"If he was coaching me or wanted me to go down a particular angle or in someway trying to direct it, I wouldn’t have done it,” said Williams said, who watched the movie before finally agreeing to do the review.

The phrase Riffel said he remembers best from the review is, “This was like the Rocky Horror Picture Show on crack.”

Asked if he remembers saying that during a radio interview, Williams said, “Yes, I can go with that. It is definitely out of the box and definitely pushes limits.”

Riffel described the film as a re-dub of two episodes from Bonanza and The Andy Griffith show hosted by "Insectavora" from The Coney Island Sideshow.

Calling the movie a satire on "The Golden Age Of television," Riffel compared television from the 1960s with “what's considered appropriate and enjoyable entertainment today,” such as Jersey Shore and Keeping Up With The Kardashians.

Williams, who actually knew the cast of Bonanza and worked as a guest star on Touched by an Angel, which Michael Landon directed and wrote, said the movie takes those classic stories and characters and turns them upside down. “I think they were particularly successful with it.”

He sees a market for the movie in the subculture — one of the reasons he compared it to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He also sees the potential for backlash. "These characters hold very near, dear, special places in people’s memories and hearts,” he said.

"I made them promise not to do the Brady Bunch,” Williams added.

It’s been more than two years since Riffle made his offer and, at times, it seemed as though no one would take him up on it. He approached many celebrities including Will Farrell, Tina Fey, Kevin Smith, Roseanne Barr and Seth Macfarland. For a while it seemed Kevin Smith was set to do the review but in the end plans fell apart.

Williams said, “You wouldn’t think it would be such a complicated sort of trail.” He knew Angelica, also known as Insectavora, and “she contacted a friend of mine and my friend called me” which led to his conversations with Riffel.

Riffle, who makes his living painting homes in and around the Chatham area, said his quest was all about giving money to charity. “I wanted to do something good but it didn’t go as planned.”

He said the difficulty of attracting a celebrity saddened him. “I learned that $10,000 was not a lot of money to some people. It was not enough to motivate” the stars of today. They are now more like “heads of corporations” who are protected from the public.

In the 1990s, when Riffle was making a film about fame, he said he contacted stars directly to ask if they would take part in the film and, in some cases, received personal letters from many of them. But in recent years, it has become “incredibly hard to get in touch with any of these people,” he said.

Riffle spares Williams from these descriptions. “I have nothing but great things to say about Barry Williams. He’s a down-to-earth guy, a nice person,” Riffel said, adding he did get the money and donated it to charity.

Riffel still has one more goal associated with this film. Last year at this time it looked as though Kevin Smith was going to do the review. Smith withdrew from the project but Riffel had already talked to Jamie Walton, the president and co-founder with Smith of the Wayne Foundation, which is dedicated to helping end child slavery and human trafficking. The foundation is a small one and Riffel said if someone comes forward and buys the worldwide rights to the film, he will make a donation to the Wayne Foundation.

Williams is ready to start on a new venture, a stage show called 70s Music Celebration, in Branson, Mo., which he has called home for the past few years. The show opens on March 16 and runs through Dec. 31, 2013. He and the cast will be "delivering the whole decade of 70s music," and each show will feature 52 songs from the era. "I hope it's just the beginning," Williams said.

To reach Riffel, contact him at BlueCrashFilm@aol.com.