Sunday, January 11, 2009

Review #119: Killer Pad (2008)


Cast/Notable Credits:
Robert Englund (Director)

Daniel Franzese (Doug): Mean Girls (2004), War of the Worlds (2005)

Eric Jungmann (Craig): The Faculty, Varsity Blues (1999), Monster Man (2003)

Emily Foxler (Lucy): Grizzly Park (2008)

Noureen DeWulf (Delilah): Pulse 2 & 3 (2008)

Corri English (Jezebel): Unrest (2006)

Notable Cameos: Joey Lawrence (Blossom), Lin Shaye (2001 Maniacs), Jennifer Lyons (Devil's Prey), Bobbie Sue Luther (Night of the Demons - 2009), Christine Barger (Pulse), Katie Chonacas (Triloquist)

Trailer:


Plot:

Three guys (Doug, Craig & Brody) move out of their parent's houses from Chicago and head to the high life of Los Angeles. Once there, a transsexual real estate agent sets them up with a secluded house in Beverly Hills. The only problem: the house is a portal to hell.

Oblivious to the strange happenings surrounding the house, the three continue to live in it. Trying to impress a uber hot neighbor (Lucy) and her friends, they decide to throw a house welcoming party to end all parties. Little do they know that Lucy is Lucifer himself...or herself...or itself...and wants to feed off the souls of the unsuspecting party goers. The sexy Emily Foxler pictured right.

The fate of the world rests now in the hands of the three idiotic guys, their snipped dog and frat boy turned priest friend. How will they defeat devil and his minions? By singing Holy Songs...with a little help from the power of K.I.S.S. NOOO!!!

Villain:

The devil. Or El Diablo as the Mexican groundsman puts it. El Diablo is one smokin' hot chick named Lucy. At least in human form. In demon form...well...she's not as pleasant on the eyes. And she's got a dick. And vagina. Ewe!

Lucy does have a great entourage as two more super hot chicks, Delilah (Noureen DeWulf pictured right) and Jezebel, serve as her minions. In human form, they look fabulous, but demon form their not as pretty. I'm not really sure if they share the same qualities as Lucy, being equipped with a male and female reproductive organ. In fact, I just don't want to think about it.

Cast:

The cast features three dudes who are complete idiots. They are over the top idiots. Kind of like if you mix Dumb & Dumber with a horror movie. Yes, it's intentional. The three mistake a hole in the basement (the portal to hell) for an open sewer line, and a hell hound for a coyote. Yep. They're dumb. The three actors do a great job at being complete loser morons with no clue.

Surrounding the three bubble heads is a cast of horror movie no name icons...and Joey Lawrence. The chicks in the background are hot, but have no real value in the movie outside of being "eye candy".

There was one cast member who I could root for. That was a "Dinko's" (Kinko's rip off) nerdy kid played by Andy Milonakis. He played a fat nerdy kid who just wanted to get laid at the party.

SFX/Gore:

There were a dozen deaths in the film, and the majority of the deaths were done with terrible cheesy special effects. The style did intend to use bad effects as it's trademark, but some of the deaths themselves were done badly.

For instance, a fat chick gets sucked into the toilet and party members continue to use the "toilet" on her until it clogs up the toilet. Yep. Award winning material here.

TNA:

Okay this is where the film succeeded and failed at the same time. Is that even possible? I give the film credit, it had a great deal of "eye candy". Wall to wall with hot chicks. It even featured many boyhood fantasies like five horny Catholic school girls, and blonde Swedish triplets hanging out in the hot tub wearing bikinis.

The film even had a lesbo kissing/licking scene, but it failed to deliver on everything else. That's right, no fleshy fun bags or sex scenes. It was all "eye candy" and nothing else. The movie is even rated "R", and has nudity as a reason, but I didn't see any. With the movie being filled with hot chicks, it's really not any different from any of the 90's horror movies that featured WB show chicks that wouldn't take anything off either.

Concept:

Let's be honest, it was meant to be an over the top comedy horror movie. It's Dumb & Dumber meets the Amityville Horror. Killer Pad isn't as outrageous as the Scary Movie franchise, but it's still up there in foolishness.

T.Gun Factor:

Okay, it was an enjoyable tongue and cheek movie to watch. Something that you could watch once or twice and then that's it. If you didn't notice up top, the film was directed by none other than...Freddy. Yep. Mr. Englund took the devil by the horns for this film. Lately he's been in some pretty strange and funny projects. I think it's rubbed off on him because there was some clever and funny enjoyable moments in the film.

My favorite little joke was when Lucy introduces her two friends Delilah and Jezebel (Corri English pictured left). They enter the room dressed like women tennis players with rackets and short skirts. A tennis ball falls out of Jezebel's skirt, and she's like, "Oh. I was looking for that." That was pretty funny. Come on' a tennis ball popping out a female snatch! That's great sh*t!

On the other hand, the guys interpretation of the word, "El Diablo" was pretty dumb. They mistake it for being a Mexican hot sauce. I like the misinterpretation from Talledega Nights better, "a fighting chicken" better.

Misc. Movie Trivia:
-Film opened on February 5, 2008 and went straight to DVD

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