First things first..what is that title? Is that even a word? Not that I know of, or can find in any dictionary. Ok, that's done...

I watched this last night, and I don't know what to do. Should I kill myself, somebody else? Who put money into this? And did anyone bother to read this script? The lead actress is dreadful, as is everything else in this "movie". It's good for a few laughs, in a so bad it's bad way.This piece of crap really does exemplify everything bad film making is about. There are seemingly endless shots of driving to pad out the running time, and nothing makes sense. But not in a cool dream logic, or atmospheric kind of way. I chalk it up to plain old lazy story telling.

So here's the story: a brother and sister and their mother (a transsexual with bad plastic surgery as far as I can tell) , who by the way is supposed to have been some famous ventriloquist, live in a motel. One night she OD's on drugs. The kids, and her ventriloquist dummy are sent to their uncle's house to live. Dummy doesn't like uncle treating the kids badly so he kills the uncle. Flash forward to present time and the kids are now in their late teens and running amok with this dummy that serves as a mouthpiece for the mute brother (but also seems to be alive and have its own mind and personality and can walk and talk etc...) oh, and did I forget to mention the brother and the dummy have matching outfits? MEANWHILE the sister is an alcoholic mess who is determined to call every woman a slut and a whore just to prove that she isn't one.
There is a sub plot, and I use that term loosely, to continue the family name, but really that's the story. And on it goes for almost 80 minutes...

The one thing that should have been exploited is the mute brother character who can only talk through the dummy. The story is so wrapped up in his violent, yet dull sister that it doesn't know what else to do.

And speaking of the dummy. The design is terrible. It looks like a reject from fraggle rock, if one of the characters had a cowboy brother or something crazy like that. Why they didn't just use a real looking ventriloquist dummy is beyond me, then maybe it would have been creepy to at least look at.

Sorry to ramble, but I haven't seen anything this bad since Tobe Hooper's MORTUARY, which coincidentally also had Rocky Marquette in it. Don't get me wrong, this guy is cute and everything, and he's able to actually form a character and make it believable, but doesn't his agent advise against him taking such terrible parts? From what I've seen of him in SHALLOW GROUND, and yes, even this dreck, the guy has talent.

As for everyone else in this mess, I can't say the same. It's a bad student film from top to bottom. And poor Brian Krause even makes an appearance. Why, I don't know...his cameo isn't even memorable or necessary really.

"Don't get me wrong, this guy is cute and everything..."

Reading that, I had to look up his picture. For a 28 year-old, he looks younger.

ANYWAY, I'm done with psycho/dummy/killer/possession films. I've seen the best, DEAD OF NIGHT, and I've seen the most miscast, MAGIC.

I can always relish a really bad performance, though.

Thanks, Derek!

Heh. My good friend cast this movie. The stories he could tell you...

I wanna know!!!!!!!
Seriously, as much as this movie sucked, and then blowed, I am strangely fascinated by it.
Hook up the dirt dude.