Imagine Bad Taste, Street Trash and all the Troma films you can think of being put in a cinematic blender with a parody porn movie… and you still wouldn’t get anything as “out there” as The Taint.
An experimental fluid, meant to have the same effect as viagra, only stronger has gotten into the water supply causing all the males (and their members) to become very angry and very violent. Can our hero, Paddy O’ Ginny (co director Drew Bolduc), himself a misogynistic wimp and the lovely Misandra (Colleen Walsh) save the day from the marauding, head smashing, jizz spurting morons who have become tainted?
While most low (no) budget films rely on their gross out effects and eagerness of their female cast members to disrobe to entertain, The Taint spends large chunks of its brief 70min running time on back story and plot. But don’t worry, the gore is back sooner than you think! The effects here are nothing short of superb, regardless of the budget – although the constant fake penises are a little too, well, fake (the adult shop must have sold out of dildos while these guys were making this, that many get destroyed!)
The thing with this film is, it’s actually very well made. The guys have managed to make a no budget film that uses it’s lack of budget to it’s advantage. The characters have that throw back to the 80s look with the wigs, etc.. (remember the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage promo shot by Spike Jonze?) and the dialogue is suitably over the top, but the winner here, as I say is the effects. It’s the sort of film Bill Zebub wishes he could make, but keeps missing out on.
What’s even better is the price of the film. You can get it from the guys themselves for less than £10 UK delivered. ($12 in the US). They are also selling it on good old retro VHS and with other packages that are worth looking at. This is a cult classic just waiting to be discovered, and devoured, the perfect film to watch with a few mates and a few beers . Go and discover people…
8 out of 10
