The Taint

With The Taint, it seems clear that Drew Bodluc has conquered the explodingpenisploitation genre. Though clearly inspired by Troma's brand of humor, Bodluc captures a tone that is at different times wacky, emotional, exciting, and above all fresh. With performances that can only be described as "special," the film weaves an interesting story of misogyny gone amok. After a taint in the water turns every man into raving woman killers, Phil O'Ginny (Bodluc) faces the world women being dismembered and killed in a number of ways. The main attraction here, though, is the music. With songs that sound ripped straight out of an Italian slasher movie, The Taint's action scenes are just so joyful to watch. If there was ever a rhythm to penises exploding, Bodluc has found it.

It's interesting that this film was made for such a low budget, because it has a very polished feel. Gore effects are gooey, the cinematography has a very cool feel, and the music, again, is phenomenal. Many horror movies these days resort to using the "grindhouse" approach and simply mining the supposed "wackiness" of the films of the 1980s. The Taint, though, proves that there's still originality left in the penis explosion genre.

If you like Troma you'll love The Taint, one of the best in their catalog. Plenty of sex, gore, fun and stupidity to enjoy as a living proof that you can entertain people even with a very low budget.

I wanted to see this one for a while, just for the sake of the gore since i read it was gory. I didn't expect anything more then just trash and gore, i must say that it's one of the more creative low budget movies i have seen. And that's coming from a guy who had his fair share of B trash goodness, i was suprised. They kept coming up with the most rediculous amounts of semen... cough cough i meant absurdity. Just try to think of it as when you blend Peter Jackson's Bad Taste and John Waters Pink Flamingo's together, and the monstrosity that would be spawned. I had a good time watching The Taint, i was amused by the cheap effects, the Oscar worthy acting, the wigs??? and then i figured out it's a Troma production. Which makes it all even better. Drew Bolduc and Dan Nelson, you guys made a true trash-o-rama masterpiece. I loved it.

The Taint has one of the best fake penis shoot outs of all time. I've never seen so many exploding ding-dongs in one sitting. But it's not ALL penises. There's multiple head crushings. A Squirrel has it's head whipped off. And faces are ripped off in a timely fashion.

The Taint is a truly wonderful experience of exploding genitalia, body fluids, and gore.

Highly recommended.

Some friends in the UK told me to have a view on this for me unknown flick. I hadn't seen any reviews of it so I just pulled me in unknown territory. Straight from the director's office it was send towards Europe. The only thing I knew was that the effects used for a low budget were excellent as I heard from my UK friends. Well, was I glad that I just watched another weird flick, be honest, if you take it seriously then you will hate it for sure. It's a combination of horror and comedy but it has a really weird twist. When the movie starts the first thing you see are two pair of breasts, in close up, naked. What they are doing there is for me still an enigma but after that shot you're in a hell of a ride in the gory world of the director. But as a low budget, the effects used really works, the score used works out too, you can buy it separatly if you want. Even the editing was nice to see. The only point I wasn't happy with is when one of the figures is telling about how he became what he is it takes a bit too long, especially the laboratory. Luckily after wards it's back to the gory effects. As I said in the beginning, it isn't a flick for everyone but if you for example loved 'die you zombie bastard' then you will love this one too. It's the weirdness that makes you laugh, and for the freaks out there, yes, there is nudity. Sometimes there is a bit of a gay attitude surrounding this flick but I wasn't offended with it, I had a big smile on my face, just see what they did with the working out in a sleeping room, go figure that out. Really, I recommend this to the splatter freaks, just sit down and watch it with a bunch of friends, it only takes a bit more of an hour to sit it through. You wont regret it, yelling a lot of oooo's and aaa's and WTF!.