Rival
realtors bring prospective home buyers to a spacious house in the middle of the
desert that reeks of shit. During the
walk-through, a massive dust storm kicks up and everyone becomes reluctantly
stranded in the house. With nothing to
do, they start drinking heavily and one by one they are picked off by a killer
with a butthole for a mouth.
Hellitosis: The Legend of Stankmouth is a cheap, gross, and
dumb horror-comedy that goes for easy laughs, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t
successful. There are some genuinely
funny moments along the way. You just
have to get through a fair amount of crap (both literally and figuratively) to
get to it. As far as movies about
killers with a shithole for a mouth go, I’d say this one delivers just about
what you’d expect.
The
horror elements are rather clunky. The
problem is that the killer, Stankmouth, who runs around wearing soiled
underwear smeared with shit, isn’t exactly funny, scary, or memorable. He kills people using predictable toilet-based
methods like suffocating them with a shit-covered plunger and shoving a toilet
brush down their throat. Also, the
scenes of the victims having their guts ripped out quickly get repetitive.
The
humor works more often than not though.
It’s definitely in the vein of a Troma movie, just not with the same
kind of consistency. Speaking of Troma, Lloyd
Kaufman appears briefly as the homeless guy who finds baby Stankmouth in a
dumpster. It’s Michael Boris who gets
the best line of the film when he gets a whiff of the shit-stained house and
says, “It smells like a fart threw up in here, then the throw-up took a dump!”
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