A guy rents a camcorder from a video store and uses it to make a snuff movie. When he returns the equipment to the store, he accidentally leaves the tape inside the camcorder. He comes back to get the tape and murders the owner of the store. It doesn’t take long for the store clerk to be the police’s prime suspect. He then sets out to clear his name, even if he has to resort to murder to do so.
This has a great title and an interesting hook. It’s just a shame that the amateurishness of the whole enterprise knocks it down a notch. The humor isn’t funny, many of the characters are downright unbearable, and some of the acting is painful to watch. It also doesn’t help that there’s only like three people in the cast and they all wear shoddy costumes, obviously fake beards, and even clown make-up to (poorly) conceal their identities.
Director Zachary Snygg (AKA: John Bacchus, who made all those Seduction Cinema parodies) tosses in a couple of long takes and steady-cam type shots which considering the budget are rather impressive. Even at seventy-five minutes, a little of this goes a long way and many scenes run past their expiration. All the stuff with our hero being interrogated by the police feels static and really grinds things to a halt, and the scenes with the homeless guys near the end also feels needlessly drawn out.
I will say the first twenty minutes or so are surprisingly good. It’s almost enough to make you wish Snygg just took the best parts and condensed it down to a half hour short. Either that or he cut out the humor and tried to make it into a straight crime thriller with horror elements. Still, there’s enough promise here to suggest he’d go on to bigger and better things.
Oh, and while there is a little bit of puke, Aunt Gertrude is nowhere to be found. Bummer.
Snygg made The Heaping Bouncy Breasts That Smothered a Midget the previous year.
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