Yes this one is personal for Luigi who loses a yarbollock to one of the rubbers that leaves few reliable witnesses in its way. At the latest crime scene Luigi picks up gigolo Bill for a quickie, Bill is astonished by Luigi’s manhood if only it wasn’t for the hotel-supplied condoms taking one of Mackeroni’s testicles for dinner. Pissed that even contraceptive protection won’t help him from facing his life in question, he is more than willing to go cock first into the Hotel Quickie killer investigation, the only righteous person confident it’s the one hotel-condom doing the dismembering. These morally bankrupt hotel visitors are actually being targeted by a religious cult hell bent on ridding the street, the world of seedy sex. In German with Alien creature-creator H.R Geiger consulting on the design, Troma Team successfully created maybe their funniest and most cohesive of horror-comedies. Don’t give this movie too much credit, its aesthetically passable, the moral is intentionally enjoyable and exploitative, some comments you’ll find on this movie are totally pathetic, like Battle Royale it’s still not satirical or memorable enough to be any Exorcist or Fight Club. Unlike Battle Royale for instance the deaths are original and the acting is suitable, not smug. Udo Samel has a German sense of dark, deadpan humour, unfortunately half the cast aren’t comic enough, probably more than half of the cast aren’t actors, mostly his fellow cops having the best lines outside of his disposition, exposition and narration. Yes an exploitative German picture provides one of the best examples of well written dialogue, summing up the character and New York City, where Troma studios is, this film has nothing more than a exterior one-shots, purely showing that suits it, New York’s sexual, cultess underground. Samel will remind you of Bob Hoskins, both always playing detectives in comedies, horrors, noirs, toon-noirs, their cinema’s two Humpty Fumpty’s. Killer Condom has a weak second act, unlike many horror films it doesn’t feel long however, dwelling on that middle third, sometimes the bad acting of real-homosexuals actors makes for a lack of direction and sympathy, not that Killer Condom is going for what Shortbus lacked, sometimes it’s funnier watching a heterosexual actor showing off as a gay-lead, Samel’s ala Hugo Weaving, holding the movies ball sack of cheesy conflict and emotion. Leonard Lansink as Bob/Babette is also entertaining. As a true fan of only Carpenter, horror is very hit or miss for me, every horror movie I sees just adds indecision as to my favourite decade of horror, I don’t care really, I only have issue with the over labelling of okay 70’s horror-pictures as masterpieces, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, disappointment anybody? I’ve seen four Troma films; this is just behind Cannibal the Musical as arguably the best of theirs, obviously I watched more of Killer Condom than Surfing Nazi’s Must Die which maybe picks up after I switched off eight minutes into an internet-watching, does this satisfy you as a completely idea-driven genre film? Darcy S. McCallum |
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Killer Condom, the rubber that rubs you out, is a 1996 German horror-comedy starring Udo Samel, it’s one liners, it’s sleazy, it’s the most accurate DVD cover ever. Martin Walz probably directs straight from the comic page of Ralph Konig’s German originals. Udo plays gay, 13 inched detective Luigi Mackeroni is one of many sex-driven’s hard balled by a living, biting killer condom causing genital-al through Hotel Quickie in New York.
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