Dumpster Baby

This movie, which was made by Troma Entertainment, which is only partly known for a movie they have done twenty years ago, Toxic Avenger, (which is still Troma's mascot, more then likely because it was the only movie that has made them any money)-is the most awful movie I have ever seen. Dumpster Baby is like watching the subjects dealt with in Jerry Springer in real life for 2 hours.

This film deals with subjects such as, videotaping a raping, suicide after being videotaped while being raped, murder, suicide after a murder of an innocent, crack-prostitutes, pimps, and it also deals with a mysterious man in black who just comes around to kill people involved in the baby's life out of nowhere. This is just what you'd expect from this film's beginning which had an intro where a French-man states "Maybe if you Americans didn't fart so much you wouldn't have hurricane Katrina down in New Orleans." .

The sound quality of this film is horrible as well; I would feel upset about not catching certain spoken words because the quality is that bad, but I'm not upset because nothing spoken carries the plot at all, mostly because the plot is "hand the baby off to the most irresponsible person ever". One scene involved a retarded man, after having acquired the baby, sticking the child inside a drawer so that he could answer the door. When he does answer the door two kids basically bully him and tell him that they are going to call the F.B.I., as they are telling him this they are seriously playing toss the baby to each-other. There are far too many scenes that I could reference that are equally if not more, horrible, so I won't but you get the point.

The plot is ridiculous. The acting is worse then an elementary play. Sound and video quality is by far worse then Charlie Chaplin movies. Characterization of the film is extremely shallow. This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen and I don't mean that in an exaggerated "THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE I'VE SEEN!!!!111! , LOL." kind of way. This seriously is the worst movie I have ever seen.

I will never understand how this movie got on Netflix. It's barely good enough to be on you tube. I was expecting a dumpster baby crawling around seeking revenge but instead a bundle of blankets (Seriously Dumpster Baby director, couldn't even put a baby doll in the blanket?) is passed around to drunks, a cannibal, a catholic school girl, crack whores and a retarded garbage man. Believe me, sounds a lot funnier than it is. It also sounds a lot more comprehensible. I think that's what the movie is about, because you can only hear half the dialog. The plot is thus, somebody finds Dumpster Baby and instead of saying, "Hey, we should take this to a hospital or a police station or something." Said person takes responsibility for dumpster baby. "Hey we found a baby, let's put him in a box, then two people will have sex and guys with guns will come for some reason and then the baby ends up in a Styrofoam cooler...How did it end up there? I dunno. We made a movie called Dumpster Baby, shot in our backyard and forgot to rent microphones. You expect us to have all the answers? Oh, I forgot about the creepy guy who walks around, I think it was dumpster baby in the future but instead of trying to figure that out I'd rather stick my junk in a lobster tank.

This glorious, surreal fable is a riotous feast of provoking imagery, spectacularly dysfunctional relationships, and existential concerns, but don't let that stop you. It's also quite linear and coherent for such a film. It's about innocence, faith, love, forgiveness, and redemption. Quite successful in it's execution. It's only flaws are an inexperienced cast, and violence (except for a chilling rape sequence) that is never quite pushed far enough. That said, this is a promising new direction for the modern horror film. Worth a look.

I rented this movie because I'm all about independent films *and* bad films. But this one was beyond bad. The only horrors were the lack of plot, coherence, the lighting, the editing and the impossibly terrible sound.

I even attempted watching some of it with commentary to see if I could figure out what I was missing... If maybe there was something redeeming about this film but, sadly, the commentary was just as inane as the rest of it.

While in the liner it was called a grindhouse film in the tradition of the Toxic Avenger do not be fooled by it.

OK, so all the reviews that rate this movie anywhere above 5 stars are lying to you. The only reason they rated this film so high is because they want to try to get you to watch it so you can have the same horrible feeling hey did. My friend and I saw this on the Netflix instant que list and were expecting a horror movie with terrible production values, which can be pretty fun. We were expecting some kind of horrible dumpster baby monster terrorizing people and corn syrup blood, etc. etc. What we got was the worst attempt at a serious film ever, and not in a good way. This film, no exaggeration, made me want to kill myself. I felt genuinely horrible after watching it. So don't be fooled by the high praises this movie gets from other people, they just want to drag you down with them.