Sister loves Brother. Brother loves Dummy. They all love killing people.
Man, this "killer puppet movie" was warped... It's definitely not a
film for all tastes. Can't really say it's a decent film either, but it's just so demented, going from plain dumb to hilarious. Paydin LoPachin gave it her best shot as deranged sister Angelina, but I find her performance admirable at best. I didn't really found her capable of completely carrying the film, sadly. Still, a crazy killer doll movie, with offbeat white trash slasher moments and a road-movie vibe reminiscent of NATURAL BORN KILLERS by the guy (Mark Jones) who previously brought us enjoyable nonsense like LEPRECHAUN and RUMPELSTILTSKIN... That alone is reason enough to watch TRILOQUIST and like it, regardless. One visual gag had me really laughing out loud: The dummy shoots the cop, and the shotgun kicks back and blows him wooosh out of the frame! That's funny stuff! Add some welcome female nudity. A little bit of gore & bloodshed. A lot of sick jokes. And this flick can't be all bad, can it?. Mark Jones is back! but not better than ever...
Director MARK JONES who breathed life into the now dead LEPRECHAUN
series & who hasn't been directing any pint sized terror characters since 1996's forgettable RUMPLSTILTSKIN, returns after a long absence to direct this okay, but even worse horror outing, about a mute brother who talks through his ugly ventriloquist dummy. Going on the lamb with his beautiful, though psychotic sister, they kill anyone & everything that crosses their paths. Eventually they kidnap a pretty young girl for her brother to mate with & sire another child to continue their family bloodlines, however she's not about to co-operate & things soon start to fall apart mighty quickly especially when the dummy who is constantly tortured by the sister insists that they kill her & go on their own spree. TRILOQUIST reminded me of JACK FROST (The killer snowman movie not the Michael Keaton one) in which the film was to gory & violent to be funny & to dumb to be scary & just resulted in a film that mearly fell between the chairs in terms of entertainment value. Like Mark Jones previous pint sized killer flicks, the film has far to many stupid scenes with characters who do way to many stupid things like the Leprechaun's shoe fetish in the original where rather than go after his intended victims would stop to shine a pair of shoes they chucked at him. Here whenever the dummy went to attack people the mute brother would dance. My brother thought this movie was a blast & laughed his head off throughout the entire picture. I on the other hand was less than enthusiastic. The film has some good points but their all quickly overshadowed by a lack of any real plot, mediocre acting & directing. Even horror fans & fans of the directors previous work, such as LEPRECHAUN & RUMPLSTILTSKIN may have a hard time swallowing this. Sadly when were only a few minutes into the film we learn that the director hasn't learned anything more about horror movies than he did back in 1993, which was the year of the Leprechaun's debut. Not the worst movie out there, but is further proof that if a film like this can be financed & distributed, than any filmmaker out there could make practically anything regardless of weather it's good or bad & still sell it & make a profit. The ending is flat & really there's no pay off or punishment for the spitefully evil though good looking evil sister. If you must see this, view it as a comedy & not as a horror movie or even as a horror/comedy & you might like it. My brother sure did... ** stars. |
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