bad but good

admittedly an acquired taste but i enjoyed this movie. maybe its the dank times square hotel, or matter of fact filming. there's nothing particularly special here, but it is a weird and twisted story with cheesy but entertaining gore.

definitely some poor acting, some of the worst in fact. its like the filmmakers showed up and asked anyone to read the parts. what you end up with is over-the-top trying to act.

the plot has Siamese twin brothers who were separated while in their teens. the deformed 'parasite' half is separated from the 'normal' brother and its discarded as unwanted. but it survives and has a psychic link with the other brother (for some really awful scenes, the normal brother talks to the voice in his head; what you hear is a one sided poorly acted conversation. yuck). the deformed brother convinces the normal brother to help him take revenge on those who performed the 'in-home surgery'. so the normal brother takes him to New York and carries him around in a basket. (Whats in the basket? Its my brother!!!) he stays in a hotel in times square with some odd characters hanging about. and precedes to track down and kill the people involved (actually one is killed at the beginning, its just the 2 others). a few unlucky others get in the way and killed as well. not always how you expect, nor who you expect.

the rest is pretty obvious; there's a love story which the deformed brother dislikes, there's drunkenness, there's murder, and a lot of attempts at suspense (which never really are, but nothing to bad). the ending was unexpected and fairly nicely done.

this review doesn't sound very glowing. it won't be your favorite movie. you may even hate it. i thought it was entertaining and reasonably good. just don't expect greatness.



8/10