A weekend getaway turns to terror after a bizarre shaving incident releases a bloodthirsty monster upon a peaceful lakeside community.A weekend getaway turns to terror after a bizarre shaving incident releases a bloodthirsty monster upon a peaceful lakeside community.A weekend getaway turns to terror after a bizarre shaving incident releases a bloodthirsty monster upon a peaceful lakeside community.
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It's a very progressive movie. Not many films are willing to show a mans scrotum but this movie is made by a true creative. When someone dies in the movie, they have died. The various qualities of camera used throughout the movie help to build an atmosphere of confusion and dread that you feel in every part of you. As a resident evil fan, this movie was made by a person who had probably played a resident evil game. There was a protagonist. This film also has many actors of various religious backgrounds and genders. But most of you don't care about all that, if you are looking for a film for all the family, Shrek the Halls is alright.
For the sake of science and/or morbid curiosity, I decided to follow Amazon's recommendation and actually watched all 64 minutes of "The Scrotum", including post credits scene. I was expecting a typically knowing cheap horror comedy, but bizarrely it's actually played straight. Or at least as straight as you can, given the fundamentally ludicrous concept. The plot, such as it is, is simply a conveyor belt of badly acted nothing characters who are served up without explanation just so they can be consumed. They take the Jaws principle of "don't show the shark" and lean into it hard (no pun intended). Which to be fair is probably for the best given the nature of the creature. All attempts at character, never mind character development, are terrible. On the plus side, it plays some nice homages to 80's horror such as Evil Dead, and there is one particular scene which was genuinely one of the most nasty and disturbing things I've ever seen on a screen. It also has the single most ridiculous twist/reveal ever commited to film. Not gonna lie, it was pretty terrible, but if you enjoy silly low budget horror it's amusing enough for its short runtime. It even has a sequel, which is baffling. Of course the true horror here is what I have now done to how the Amazon algorithm views me, and what it will recommend next!
A young couple, Tyler and Lindsay, are out camping in the great outdoors. They are getting very intimate but she won't "finish him off" unless he shaves off his pubic hair. So off to the lake he does trot and starts shaving his fake genitals. Unfortunately for Tyler some toxic waste has been illegally dumped in the water. He returns to unlucky Lindsay but during their resumed sex he experiences extreme pain and castrates his fake privates. His balls mutate into a blood thirsty monster and the rest of the film has numerous people killed in gory fashion. This is a very low budget movie so don't expect good acting or effects, much of the gore looks like offal from a butcher's shop and probably was. The ridiculous plot means that it's way too stupid to be taken as a serious horror movie, likewise it's not funny enough to work as a credible comedy either. Nice lakeside location though. The running time may only be 64 minutes but that was long enough. If you make it to the end credits then stick with it as there is a post credits scene, it really doesn't add much to the story but does last maybe a minute or so. So if you are looking for a silly short gore fix and provided you don't mind micro budgets then Scrotum may be worth a look.
Surprisingly, there is a plot to this so-called movie. Toxic chemicals mutate testicles into murderous monsters. There you go. Now that you know what it is about, you can save yourself the hour and very few minutes it takes to watch it. Every male character is a short-lived idiot. I'm not even going to start asking all the questions I still have about the monster. Okay, maybe I'll ask a couple. How does a mutated testicle become physically large enough and strong enough to not only kill full-sized adults, but pursue them at top running speed and worse, drag their bodies around? Yes, these critters are quick enough and have the endurance to chase down a van with enough strength left over to kill the driver. I watched this film constantly wondering how bad it could get. The answer is 'Pretty Freaking Bad', and not in the 'so-bad-it's-good' way, either. It's awful to anyone capable of reason, yet for some reason it spawned a sequel. I'll leave that review to someone else.
Everything about this film is terrible. The wooden actors, the camera work, the terrible editing, the story.
I can't really credit anything about this. Maybe just read the caption and be slightly amused by it because this really is next level garbage.
Would have been much higher production value if filmed on a cheap phone and edited with free software. Remember this was made in 2019, not 1989.
It seems to fill the time out a bit they just stretched out some bad edit compilations as long as they could in slow motion with dramatic music in order to fill time without having to create additional dialogue or plot
I would give this 0 stars but apparently you can't. 1 seems very generous.
Really not sure why they made it, then thought it was good enough to release.
I can't really credit anything about this. Maybe just read the caption and be slightly amused by it because this really is next level garbage.
Would have been much higher production value if filmed on a cheap phone and edited with free software. Remember this was made in 2019, not 1989.
It seems to fill the time out a bit they just stretched out some bad edit compilations as long as they could in slow motion with dramatic music in order to fill time without having to create additional dialogue or plot
I would give this 0 stars but apparently you can't. 1 seems very generous.
Really not sure why they made it, then thought it was good enough to release.
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- ConnectionsFollowed by Scrotum: The Second One (2021)
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- Budget
- $800 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
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- 16:9 HD
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