I am a sucker for Drive In / Grindhouse movies. 99.9% of them suck for one reason or another. The usual culprits are: 1:Awful Acting 2:Bad Directing 3: Slow Pacing 4:Terrible Camera-work 5:Movie Does Not Live Up to Promises of Poster 6:Total Ineptitude on Everyone's Part. Matthew Enstrom is also the director of "Chaos in Outer Space", a failed but interesting comedy, which I enjoyed ( to use the term loosely) at a film festival years ago. So then I happen onto "Tomatoman" which covers all the bases.I have seen worse movies but this one has a place in my heart for being the most mind numbingly dull. Similar to Bill Rebane's "Invasion From Inner Earth" in that nothing much really happens during the whole film. This film would fit right in as a third movie at a 1970's Drive-In horror triple feature. By that point, who was really watching, just us few masochists who thrive on such painful entertainment. Director Enstrom uses the same core of non-actors in all of his movies which actually sort of adds to the crude drive-in effect of this film. Let's hope Mr. Enstrom follows in Mr. Rebane's footsteps and drops a few more of these misbegotten turds. I will be keeping an eye out for sure.
