SOURCE-Blu Ray/DVD/CD Soundtrack editon from Cleopatra Entertainment
Every year I try to buy and try out a film I heard a buzz about the previous year from various festival screenings. A few years ago I got lucky and picked out WolfCop and loved it. And that Blu Ray happened to be fairly cheap. This year I took a chance on Glenn Danzig's first movie that he directed and wrote Verotika.
Back in the 90s comic boom Danzig started up a horror/erotica comic company,that still somewhat exists still. The longest running and best selling title was Verotik,which was a erotic horror anthology series. With some damn good talent like Grant Morrison,Simon Bisley and even splatter punk author Edward Lee did some writing for Danzig's fairly decent horror comic.
Too bad none of that great talent worked on this movie. I had heard it was pretty bad. But thought nah,,, it can't be as bad as I am hearing. It wasn't as bad,it was worse.
This is a three story film. Hosted by a fairly attractive brunette,I know the Verotik title had a host but can't remember what her name was. First story is about a model who has permanent duck lips. We see her at her apartment on the couch with some guy who looks like he was a roadie for the Damn Yankees.
In the foreground of the shot is a flower. On this flower is crawling a albino spider.This spider is CGI. It looks like something you would have seen on the Jaguar CD. I have seen much better CGI work in Made for SYFY originals by the Asylum.
Back to Ducklips on the couch. Her and the guy and fucking and he keeps on trying to take her top off. She does all she can to stop him,it starts getting really creepy as she tells him to stop while continuing to grind on top of his crotch. He over powers her takes off her tops and.... she has eyeballs where her nipples are suppose to be!
Dude runs out of there and we finally get the plot of this short. Whenever Ducklips goes to sleep the albino spider morphs into a white tall 3 armed spider/man creature. Who likes to strangle strippers and models.
The rest of the short is Ducklips trying to not fall asleep and the Albino Spider/man killing what I assume are French porn stars making a quick buck off Danzig.
The cops kill the albino spider and this ends. Well at least it wasn't too long.
The second story has a stripper,who wears a lower face mask while stripping. Her face is revealed to be horrible fucked up. And she goes around killing strippers and hookers.Then skinning their faces.
Wow after that first story I wasn't expecting the second one to be amazing or nothing. What I got was a boring trope filled "horror" story set at a strip club. Tits and bad 80s hard rock looking for a plot.
A Elizabeth Bathroy inspired short is the film story. This time Danzig managed to cast some gorgeous ladies for all the parts. The acting is the best of the film,outside of the host's parts before and after stories. And it seems like most of the budget was saved for this final part.
Lots of blood of course. Some decent camera angles and it is almost enough to make up for that horribel second story.
No clue what this set costs now when I pre ordered it I paid like 25 bucks. Thinking,OK it will be so bad it is good and can give someone the dvd.Plus the soundtrack is going to be amazing!. The soundtrack sucks and after two listens got put back into the blu ray/dvd case and won't be listened to much again. I don't hate anyone enough to give them the dvd of this.
Like Rob Zombie,Glenn Danzig appears to be a director who proudly displays the films/eras he is inspired by. Verotika feels like lots of 70s eurohorror. The look of the film is early 90s porn. Back before they kinda figured out how to light videotape. Some of the angles in Verotika reminded me of 1989's Dr Caligari. Which of course was made by a guy best known for directing porn.
Oddly for all the crap I gave the movie I got this nagging feeling that it is gonna become a cult hit.Once it hits a streaming service like Amazon Prime,Netflix or Shudder word of mouth will get so many people to watch this.
Verotika gets a D+
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