While two men and their
midget friend Craig (Mighty Mike
Murga) tries to discover a haunted house
a cannibalistic mad scientist the
Doctor (Ford Austin) captures them.
He kills two of Craig's friends and then
turns Craig's into one of his killers to
continue his killing spree.
While Tara (Felissa Rose) is grieving
over his sisters murder that Craig
committed, she goes to a bikini party
with her lesbian friends. Then, the mad
killing spree starts to occur with Craig
to do please the Doctor and also to bring
Tara back to his lab for peer torture and
for his main slaughtering yet.
They say some movies are so bad it's good but this one it's
so bad you wanna puke!!!!!
There's shaky camera shots surrounding the Doctor with a menacing grin on his
face which looks extremely trashy and
corny too. There's a bad shot on Craig having his neck tied up
to a tree with him lacking big time by
struggling through this.
We have a ton of cheesy one liners in the
film with some friends going to a
deserted looking area only to be mamed
and tortured to death by a madman who
eats their guts etc. It's shocking horror
violence yes but it's so corny that none
of it is scary like the makers were
trying to make it out to be. Also this
madman seems to look like he's raping one
of them which happens to be a midget
doggystyle and suddenly becomes into one
of his possessed killers which doesn't
make any sense at all.
Then this midget whom is Craig ends up killing
beautiful women as it was supposed to
look like one of those creepy moments in
a slasher film but this was so cheaply
done as if someone decided to make a home
movie with their friends while doing
these scene's. Not the least bit scary. I
mean a midget for a killer? C'mon! They
tried to make something different with
this splatter flick and it failed. There's bad shots lookin up and sideways
on him acting deadly while
stabbing his victims as well as a shot on
him holding up his knife while spying on
one of his victims in which this shot and
deadly expressions are way too laughable.
Then there's the lead character Tara
grieving someones death as well as her
and a friend going to a bikini party out
in the deserted area where there's a lake
in which they jump in and splash one
another around. I mean this was so
laughable as it doesn't look like a fun
type of party at all. It was totally
bland.
There's some moments with everyone
having a discussion swigging vodka
bottles on what they have been doing
which looked very wooden and too planned
out.
Also there's moments with the midget
killer Craig attacking a blonde and then the
blonde chasing after him was way too
silly along with this midget killing and
chasing after other women at the party
looking too plotted out. There's a corny shot on them rolling on
the ground fighting against one another
which looked hilarious.
Then there's a distant scene with her chasing after him while the
other friends are lying around and then look
concerned by what is going on which
looked very unnatural and hokey.
There's a scene with Cage beating up on a bartender at a bar in
which I must say that amateurish isn't
the word for the blocking on all of this
as it looked totally pretend.
Lots of bad shots on Craig running after the partying
and killing them which doesn't look
horror like at all with how it was all
plotted and planned out.
There's a bad moment with the Doctor grabbinga UFO Enthusiast and
stabbing him which looked unconvincing
but yet some good gruesome shots on him
finishing off the results.
Then there's a torture room with Tara tied up next to this madman
along with phony looking body pieces in
which this seemed to borrow a bit off of
this other horrible flick in 1965 titled Bloody
Pit of Horror or a Herschel
Gordon Lewis flick but these guys
had a better budget and a storyline with
what they did.
There's many shots on her strapped to a table and screaming
intensely with the Doctor acting insane
towards her in which this moment was
supposed to look disturbing with both of
their reactions on this but it flops. Yet
some good close up shots between the two
of them as well as him maming her and
there's a good close up shot on her wide mouth screaming that you can spot
some cavities in her teeth.
A good shot on Craig coming up behind Kimmy and
massaging her and a close up shot on her
bikini being pulled off of her with her
being distracted in her thoughts which
seemed not too bad and then some corny
camera shots on them struggling against
one another.
There's also some tough detectives which
seems obvious they were pretending to be
tough which looked amateurish with their
lines and actions as well as pointless
cameos by other b-film actors which
doesn't make up for the story along with
many corny one liners too. It was tough
to tell whether this was a comedy-horror
or a plain black comedy.
Bottom line is this was Troma's worst
effort I found and made on close to
nothing with a clear looking camera but
at the same time the best looking DV
camcorder. I'm sure these makers wanted
to forget that this film ever existed
although if you've seen their other work
which is pretty bad. It seems they are
going underhill lately. You're not
missing much with this one. Also you
could tell where they shot the weather
was scorching hot and I think that the
heat got to everyone in which you can
tell by their performances and how they
did eveything making like they're in a
hurry to finish this and not wait a long
time like most films in production due to
the heat.
The acting is god
awful but like I mentioned the heat
seemed to get to everyone. Felissa
Rose (Tara) as always is very over
the top with her emotional behavior along
with her intense screaming and not
getting into the horror mode. Sometimes
she's okay with her aggressive attitude
though but again she seems to be herself
whenever she does that and not the
character that she portrays. Her crying is way too
phony and over the top when she's grieving at a tombstone. A crazy reaction on her going nuts after spotting the killer.
Mighty Mike Murga (Craig) can't act
his way through a wet paper bag and he
was better off performing as the clown at
the Motley Crue concerts
in which he portrayed character's like a
clown at their Carnival of Sins
tour. He tried to look nasty and deadly
with his expressions and growling
attitude which were laughable in a bad
way. His reactions with fear after spotting someone eating guts and forcing this onto him looks very
amateurish on how he was performed through
this.
Ford Austin (The Doctor) even lacks
a great deal as he seems to act like a
clown and not a maniac. But he is better
than most of the cast in this film. Yet
he is better at doing a trashy black
comedy than portraying a horror character
of an insane canniballistic scientist.
Ric Drassen (Cage) who plays an
obnoxious and violent detective came
across well on the camera but his acting
still lacked and was not at all
believeably violent with his actions on
set. He can do okay at times with his
lines but other times is just as bad as
the rest of the cast. Yet due to his
tough looks can still get work in other
shows regardless.
Sarah Rosenberg (Kerri) seemed okay
as someone who is pushy but outgoing as
one of the friends at the bikini party.
She had the nice looks which helped her
character a bit and seemed to do so so
with her character.
Horror film journalist Heidi
Marinuzzi (Kimmy) who made one of
her acting debut's here was one of the
better cast members portraying a lesbian
in the film in which she tried her best
to show some characteristics with all
that's going on in the plot. SHe seemed
to do fairtly okay with her battling
moments too.
Now lets discuss some of the pointless
cameo's shall we?:
Brinke Stevens (Donna Siebert) does
an okay job portraying a receptionist and
her speaking sounded good for this type
of a role. She was probably the best in
the whole cast in fact. She was never a
special type of actress but has gained
alot of experience in bad horror films
that were better than this one.
Porn king Ron Jeremy (UFO
Enthusiast) brought on a nice charm to
his role and seemed to do well with his
comedic timing in his role in which I
wished he had a better part which
could've saved the film a tiny bit but
not much.
Lloyd Kaufman (Dr. Kaufman) was his usual
self as he hosted a scene like he does
with all his Torma work but I don't think
his part suited the film at all.
A blonde woman's
breasts are exposed while taking a
shower.
The midget killer takes off a woman's
bikini top and is full breasted.
The Doctor rips
guts out of a man and tears another man
in half and eats their guts.
Then he tears guts out of a UFO
Enthusiast character.
Also there are body pieces as well as
Tara's leg being brutally cut
There's a bloody slit throat and plenty
of blood splatterings.
Alot of bloodshed splurting out too in
many scene's of the film
Andrew J.
Rausch is also terrible with his
composing for the film in which he uses
alot of techno type music as well as rap
beats in which we've heard in alot of no
grade horror films that appeals to young
teenagers during this time period. The
soundtrack to the movie also made me feel
like throwing up with the awful song
titles and the bad heavy metal music. |
