September 01, 2008
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Don't let your sister touch your no-no spot.From Leprechaun mastermind Mark Jones comes the dodgy 2008 Dimension Extreme release Triloquist, a movie so terminally awful that you can't help but feel genuinely sorry for each and every individual involved in its creation. Like The Ice Cream Man before it, this unconventional cinematic disaster practically revels in its abject campiness, presenting this sordid tale of incest, murder, and ventriloquism as a sort of surreal carnival ride operated by a one-eyed drunkard with a perpetual hard-on. The story unfolds in awkward chunks and jagged pieces, giving the prospective viewer the sneaking suspicion that lots of needless padding was added to drastically extend the film's length to a mere 80 minutes. Driving this slid-shod two-napkin script is the film's minuscule cast, comprised of a few red-faced has-beens returning favors and several over-reaching amateurs. In fact, Shallow Ground's Rocky Marquette has virtually lifted Johnny Depp's entire performance from Tim Burton's early 90's classic Edward Scissorhands -- subtle he's not. Additionally, the film's sinister wooden fiend is neither frightening nor amusing; his cute little jokes, quips, and barbs always seem to crash and burn, especially when compared to Jones' previous pint-sized efforts. Triloquist may appeal to alcoholics and pot smokers, but that's about it.
Recipe For Disaster: A Handful Of Terrible Alternative Rock Songs + Paydin LoPachin + Poor Brian Krause
Is It Me: Or are Dimension Extreme's releases getting steadily worse?
What am I saying? Of course it's not me!
1 Spasms:
It's not just you, the movies are getting bad. I picked this one up thinking it might be fun and I was sadly, sadly wrong.
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