As you may or may not have read in my last review, Henenlotter's Basket Case has to be one of my favorite cult movies ever. Perhaps this is what set my standards too high. Regardless, I think one of my main issues is that this film reminded me too much of Basket Case, even though the plots are nothing similar. We have a massive CGI penis monster that goes around raping girls all through the penis-cam first person view (all while giving them deadly, hour long orgasms). Of course, it's never explained how the penis can actually detach from it's master, but let's not focus on minor details. We have the owner of aforementioned penis, Batz, continually talking to his junk and feeling held back and unable to live a normal life because of it. While some may view this as homage to the cult classic, I saw it as a rather dull, 'seen this before' storyline that kinda ruined what actually could have been a rather unique and clever plot for me. Perhaps this is just Henenlotter's style, but I wish I felt more amused than I actually did while watching a flick about mutant penis monsters and mutated aborted babies, amongst other lovely aspects of the film.
Are you confused yet? Well aside from the guy I just described with the monster penis, we have Jennifer, a woman born with seven clitorises who is addicted to sex 24/7. She sometimes kills her partners during sex because she gets so worked up, and because she's a mentally unstable weirdo. Now of course, it would only be fate that the never-satisfied nymph meet up with the never-satisfied dick monster with a mind of its own. The character of Jennifer was so incredibly annoying that she also distracted big time from the movie for me. The weird religious undertones just seemed out of place and silly, thrown in for shock value. Of course, Jennifer deduces that her mission in life is to be fucked by god. Now I am not religious by any means and certainly wasn't offended by the blasphemy in this film, but I certainly was disappointed that Jennifer's weird religious ramblings added little more to this crazy movie other than the conclusion that being fucked by Batz's monster dick was the closest thing to heaven. I mean, we could have really went all out here and had Jennifer birth some mutant Jesus dicks at the end or something. Might as well, considering this movie really just aimed for pure shock and offensiveness anyway.
The actress who played this annoying girl won't be winning any acting awards anytime in her lifetime. Jennifer also has some odd genetic mutation that causes her to become pregnant pretty much every time after she fucks (or so it seems), but she is only pregnant for a few minutes until she delivers under developed, monster babies which she simply leaves in trash cans or whatever other convenient receptacle is available. If you're anything like me, you'd be smiling right now after reading a recap of this absolutely ridiculous plot. Believe me, this description is what made me buy the DVD in the first place. But again, what seemed to be the perfect set up for a full on hilarious sleaze fest just went limp, no pun intended. The movie wasn't funny, it wasn't clever. It was just a disappointing mess that tries too hard to offend. My interest was lost by the scene with the hooker moaning on the floor for about ten annoying minutes straight after being banged silly by Bat'z ridiculous cock monster. I suppose I have to give Henenlotter props not only for creativity, but for making such a film to begin with. It's definitely territory that many a filmmaker would dare not prod. Unfortunately, these are pretty much the only points I can award. If you're like me and are interested in checking out bizarre, out of this world plot lines, then you might want to rent this movie to see the insanity. Other than that, there are much better 'weird' films out there that are actually good.
RATING:
* 1/2 out of *****