Killer Rack

A brilliant comedy movie. Hysterically funny, and well worth watching. I was not sold on the movie, the trailers looked trash, the story seemed beyond redemption, the movie seemed doomed to failure, hyped to disappoint. I was wrong.

This movie is an original comedy classic which is going to have a cult following in no time. If you have not seen this movie, there is something wrong with you. I loved everything in the movie.

Learning that something that looked so natural was CGI and finding out that the others were not CGI but controlled by puppeteers, and I'm sure you'll have a problem working out which is which, and in all honesty, you have to go and give this movie a try. Relax, let yourself go and lose yourself in some comedy gold right out of Buffalo, NY.

This movie was boring and not funny at all. The premise is super off the wall and wacky but the comedy fails to deliver. Bad acting and writing and this is just a mess without even being funny as promised.

Depressed about her dowdy figure, a shy woman is convinced to get breast implants at the doctor's office she finds on TV, only to realize that a strange series of deaths surrounding her shortly afterward are the result of a deranged pagan surgeon attempting to use her implants for occult rituals.

This was a rather fun and generally likable genre effort. One of the better elements with this one is the strong setup that takes an unusual route to make the story feel worthwhile and earned for her sake. With the way it paints her life as the good-natured and genuinely attractive person who's getting overlooked at her job, dumped on by her co-workers, and ignored by her boyfriend while also being constantly inundated by social media or anywhere else around her that it's all due to her physical appearance and less-than-desirable assets, starts giving this one a decent enough opening flair. The idea that she has to go through with it to better her professional and personal life is an odd choice to see that it goes with this kind of approach, but it still makes the decision far more thought-out and hammered home in how everyone treats her and the reaction she has to it that visiting the doctor and going through with the surgery is given a strong enough baseline. That makes the change in personality and fortune somewhat more earned when it becomes apparent that there was some benefit to the experience. Offering up more perverted forms of appreciation and attention that go along with the process, but also far more success at work and home, the shift in tone allows for a rather fun contrast that makes for a rather nice continuation of that concept starting point. When it starts to turn into a genre creature feature as the enhanced figure is soon found to be the work of the surgeon's demented plans to usher in the return of a demigod being that she worships, the series of encounters and confrontations with the men and women in her life that are trying to utilize her appearance for their own benefit but instead playing right into the hands of the unknown creature living inside her, this leads to a series of immensely silly and goofy bloodsoaked encounters that match the tone and spirit of the equally goofy wraparound story going on, giving this plenty to like about it. There isn't much to be had here, but there are some minor issues with this one. The main issue here is the rather unnecessary use of a bizarrely catchy but barely featured musical motif that seems to hint early on that this is also going to be a musical in addition to a goofy, silly genre effort, only for the songs to get dropped pretty early on. Their use in the beginning is rather odd for being included when it comes together in the beginning and end, but there's barely anything in the middle, so it doesn't have much purpose here. As well, the films' special effects are a wildly mixed bag, with the gore and kills being decently handled when they're practical creations, much like the monstrous implants when they go on a rampage, but the constant cutaways just before anything happens or the use of underwhelming CGI make it a rather mixed bag affair. Combined with the inability to fall in line with the comedic tone on display, these come together to bring it down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, and Nudity.

I recently watched Killer Rack (2015), a horror-comedy currently available on Tubi. The storyline follows a woman stuck in a dead-end job, unable to advance due to her lack of "sexually appealing" attributes. She decides to take matters into her own hands and gets breast implants-unaware that the implants are man-eating.

The film is directed by Gregory Lamberson (Slime City) and stars Jessica Zwolak (Madhouse), Lloyd Kaufman (The Final Countdown), Debbie Rochon (Exhumed), and Brooke Lewis Bellas (Sinatra Club).

Killer Rack succeeds by fully embracing its ridiculous premise, leading to a humorous and over-the-top buildup. Lloyd Kaufman is always entertaining, and the absurd concept keeps your attention. The film features fun background music, plenty of blood splatter, and some creative practical effects. However, most of the kills are cutaways or involve flying appendages, which can feel underwhelming. Unfortunately, the ending takes a nosedive with bad CGI, wild "breast monsters," and a bizarre resolution.

In conclusion, Killer Rack is a quirky horror-comedy that's only worth watching if you're intentionally seeking out something campy and absurd. I'd give it a 3/10.

Suffering from low self-esteem due to her less-than-ample bosom, Betty (Jessica Zwolak) visits a plastic surgeon, Dr. Thulu (Debbie Rochon), unaware that the crazy quack is an acolyte of the elder gods, and intends to implant the spawn of one of the old ones into her latest patient's breasts. Post-operation, Betty is ecstatic about her augmented boobs, which give her the boost in confidence she needed; unfortunately, her new knockers also cause her to have blackouts, during which her possessed chest goes on the rampage, devouring human flesh.

I know someone who was an extra in Killer Rack; 'twas the main reason I watched it. I'm not going to lie... spotting her was the most entertaining thing about the film. Although the premise sounds loopy enough to ensure plenty of laughs, and everyone involved is clearly giving their all, the script is severely lacking. Horror comedy is notoriously difficult to get right, and on this occasion the scares aren't there and the gags fall flatter than Betty's chest (pre-surgery).

Troma head-honcho Lloyd Kaufman has a role in this film, which gives an idea of the level of sophistication at play: the humour is very low-brow and painfully obvious, while the extremely broad performances wouldn't seem out of place in a school pantomime (two of the worst characters are extremely low-rent knock-offs of Jay and Silent Bob). The practical special effects have a certain charm to them - cheap and cheerful puppetry with some juicy gore - but there's also some seriously dodgy CGI to contend with.

While breast obsessed schoolboys might think that this film is the tits, I imagine most viewers will feel like a right tit for having wasted their time.

3/10.

N. B. Fans of indie horror cinema might recognise Roy Frumkes, director of body-melt classic Street Trash, as a businessman. Also of interest: B-movie director Brett Piper, who gave us the equally lamentable A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, is credited as stop motion supervisor.