Review of Tales from the Crapper (2004) by Jadrien D — 15 Jul 2010
This is a terrible movie and you should not watch this. Now I am going to tell you why. The folks at Troma have brought us lots of low budget, low-grade movies that still managed to be entertaining and charming.
This time, they decided to go for a spoof of Tales from the Crypt, but seeing as that show was a bit of a spoof all by itself, I don't think the concept works at all, especially because this movie did not seem to be trying at all.
Maybe if they had given us a cheesy skeleton puppet that might have been cute, but it was just Kaufman with a garbage bag on his head. Truly bottom of the barrel stuff, even for him. When the tales get going, there seems to be some potential.
We get some gore and monsters, plus a LOT of nudity. I applaud them for the sheer volume of flesh they crammed into this movie, but the whole thing just never gels. There were some entertaining but very brief cameos.
Sadly, it lacks the charm and sense of fun that other Troma movies have. While I am constantly fascinated by the twisted, the perverse, the bizarre and the gross, I actually found myself embarrassed to be watching this movie, and there was no one else in the room at the time! Even Ed Wood would have hated this movie.
This review of Tales from the Crapper (2004) was written by Jadrien D on 15 Jul 2010.
Tales from the Crapper has generally received negative reviews.
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