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I’ve made December a type of unofficial horror movie review month. So, while writing this Monsturd review, I decided that it would be awesome if during this final week of December, I decided to give you one last article on horror flicks while we head into 2010, with my 10 favorite horror flicks of all time. This is set to be published on New Year’s Eve so keep an eye out. Without further ado, though…I give you the review of the no-budget 4321 Productions introduction: Monsturd.

What do you get when you combine two guys, a movie pitch about a killer piece of feces, and an endless supply of crap jokes and puns? What happens when you give this movie no money backing? Well, first of all, you get a movie which could primarily end up as its beast does at the end of the flick. However, does Monsturd deliver where other horror movies have failed? Read this review to find out.

Filmed in a course of two years by writer/directors Dan West and Rick Popko, Monsturd stands out from the masses of other horror movies that the audience has encountered in the past. Where really horrible movies try to take a serious approach with their off the wall creatures, Monsturd knows that it’s going to end up being a joke horror flick, and embraces the nature. Opening with a scene filled with rain, a doll house, and toy truck intended to be our storyteller’s humble abode, the audience is given prior knowledge that the movie had little to no budget backing. By the end of the movie, it seems that this could be easily mistaken as a college student’s final for a film class.

However, with no budget and a free cast, Monsturd delivers really well. With a somewhat comedic story and pun-filled script, the movie progresses through its eighty minutes quite well. At some points, the audience will question why they’re wasting their time with a movie about killer dookie and want to turn it off, but the comical seriousness of the film will have them captivated until the end credits roll.

So what about the story? Monsturd surrounds a serial killer named Jack Schmidt (played by Brad Dosland) who escapes prison and is chased into the sewer, only to fall into Dr. Stern’s strange acid that was dumped only a few hours before. Jack is seemingly disintegrated and left for dead by the police. However, there were particles of feces in the acid which bonded with Schmidt’s DNA to make a giant killer number 2. The story gets more farfetched from there, going through some mediocre character developments and comical situations, and leading to a hilarious final confrontation between the people of Butte County and our killer colon cannonball.

Though the film has no financial backing or acting talent, and West and Popko have no cinematic experience, Monsturd delivers as a comedic effort. Unfortunately, if you’re not someone who can sit through a poorly made movie and have the patience to appreciate what was put into the flick, this movie wouldn’t be recommended. In fact, if you aren’t a film student, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to you. However, this isn’t about what you’ll think of the flick.

So, in closing, I give Monsturd 7 black bananas out of 10.

Final Verdict:

7/10