Excreamer
Director: Shane Mather
2002
Comedy/Horror
Is it
really possible not to like a film with all these elements? It seems to be as
good as it gets as long as the twisted plot is concerned. At least that’s the
feeling I got from reading the storyline. I would, however, have liked some
more contexts. It feels a bit like there are some scenes that are put together
just for the heck of it, and for the sole purpose to put it out on DVD.
Naturally there’s mitigating circumstances as the movie itself had absolutely
no budget, and you more or less have to enjoy the good parts of it rather than
disliking the bad.
This is
absurdity combined with splatter and the most important thing about it isn’t
the skills of the actors. They simply don’t have to meet the award winning standards
for their contribution in a production of this kind. Also, there’s no point in
getting irritated by the films lack of logic, the absurdities just have to
speak for themselves. That’s part of, if not the entire point of, the humour
itself.
The movie
itself is just about 63 minutes long, but it’s enough. It feels as if you don’t
need to se any more of the special effects by that time. It’s noticeable that
the Mather brothers doesn’t master the effects in full and in some cases the
blood looks more like beetroot juice than blood that I’m happy with. In this
area they’ve done a lot better job with the poop effects. There is also some
CGI involved, which gives the film a kind of an amateurish sci-fi feel (that I
like). But this technique has, luckily enough, not been used whenever the
violence is concerned and its use is limited to the environment and things like
that.