 Thanks for checking out this movie review video So this is for the 2008 release of bad biology and is a Frank Hennan-Lotter film now I know you may be saying oh Frank Hennan-Lotter that sounds kind of familiar Well, it would if you've seen such films as basket case well any three of the basket case films Brain damage Frank and Hooker films like that So this is another one of his films So if you've seen those other films or even one of those other films you kind of understand what Frank Hennan-Lotter's Style is Directorially and writing because he does a lot of his own writing although he did have some help with the script for this film Which makes me wonder why it's or makes me wonder if that's why this is not his best film This is actually the worst film of his that I've seen to be honest and I think part of that may have been Because he didn't just write it himself all the other films he wrote himself and they are fun good not like oh my gosh These are amazing films, but in in the sense of like awesomely bad films awesomely bad Actually a little more than bad like some of the stuff is actually like good good Anyway, so like I said directed by Frank Hennan-Lotter written by Hennan-Lotter and also are a the rugged man Who is actually a rapper? So because of that he was able to actually get some good music for the film Which was really good by you know He made a song for it and then also he got like someone I'm familiar with Jedi mind tricks He also got killed a priest and 60 second assassin who are known to me as well But I was most impressed with Jedi mind tricks because I think their stuff is good And actually at least one of the dudes from Jedi mind tricks was in the film. I think maybe more I wasn't paying super close attention to that because the one guy was actually pointed out, but This film actually came after Hennan-Lotter was hired to do a music video for rugged man And then they kind of were talking and then rugged man was like, hey, I do you want to make a movie? I kind of want to make a movie so he bankrolled it from what I understand rugged man did and they They sat down together. They worked on the script and they executed the film together So I Assumed this film would not have happened had it not been for that But I also Don't know if that would have mattered really because I don't really think this is a very good film There are some good ideas there and there's some things in the film that I really did like Which I'll obviously talk about but there are some things that just I mean I just wouldn't recommend it to anyone if you're a completist as far as Hennan-Lotter goes I would be like yes You should see it once and that's probably as much as you're gonna want to see it Although there might be some people out there who really loved it and if that's you put some comments down here I want to know why so Charlie Danielson who plays Jennifer in this film who's Initially the main character because it kind of starts from her perspective and is Focusing solely on her until you get to the male lead bats And then it becomes really uneven, but I'll talk about that anyway She was rugged man's girlfriend at the time and was like oh, I want to do acting so she You know just got the part honestly There's not good acting in this overall But I think of the actors in it. I think she was one of the better ones to be honest So she actually did a pretty solid job For what the acting was for the film So I'm not saying she's like a great actress or anything or even like a good actress It's just she was less bad than a bunch of other people Anthony Snead who was also one of the better actors in it. He played bats And he was actually found he he found a call for the acting job through Craigslist Which you know, that's kind of like a funny thing now, but I will be honest I've done short film in the past before and I use Craigslist Craigslist to find actors So it it was a thing I don't know if it is so much anymore But anyway, Snead had answered the call He wanted the role badly Henin lotter passed on him because he was like your physique looks too good And you're supposed to kind of have like a bit of a junkie vibe to you like drug addict vibe He's like so you're just like you look too good physically So Snead went and he lost 30 pounds in 30 days came back and then Henin lotter was like wow That's dedication and you look the part now. So the part is yours now Let me say that we losing 30 pounds in 30 days is probably not very healthy But he did it for the role Also, I don't know how much this helped his career. Let's be honest The beginning animation with the magnified or magnified Organisms while the credits are playing in the beginning. It looks fine But it goes on way too long. It's like there's kind of nothing going on. You're just like, okay Let's move. Let's get to the film. That's a minor minor issue though. The cinematography The cinematography of it overall looks pretty solid, but it also looks made for TV movie-ish and Specifically skin a max type stuff because it is kind of like a soft-core porn in a sense There is so much sex worked into this which I understand from the perspective of that's kind of what the whole story is about That's what the whole script is about but the amount of like actual sex that they put into it is gratuitous like you don't need it and You should it just should have been dialed back a lot mainly because it would have meant more It would have been more impactful for the actual film if you use it correctly instead of just being like people banging People banging people banging people banging. It just loses its Luster not from the point of like seeing it and being like oh, that's a rousing But from the point of it like making a point with the story Less is more with a lot of things and this is one of those things It seemed just gratuitous to the point of just like we want more nudity in it We want more sex in it. So I don't know how much of that was Henan lotter. I don't know how much that was rugged man, but I don't know That's one hell of an orgasm to make you unintentionally kill someone I put to to start this whole thing out Jennifer she's you know, obviously this person who has a very specific genetic makeup that you see and She you know has this crazy sexual appetite that she goes after and her orgasms are so intense that she doesn't understand that She's killing the guy in the beginning when that she's having sex with them and then she leaves his body after having Having the baby I was gonna say abortion. It's not really an abortion, but she is leaving it She was she's having the baby because that's that's how her anatomy works like she has sex once She's immediately pregnant and has to have this malformed baby That looks crazy. I'm surprised. I actually showed it, but you can tell it's CG So it's like it kind of looked good for CG kind of didn't I don't know so she leaves in the bathtub and I was just like what Wouldn't she be caught like she would definitely be caught because she left the dead body and she left the aborted baby and That's her genetic material So like they would be able to find out who the mother of that was and she would at least be questioned at that point because of the dead body, so Yeah, they're plot hole Plot holes, although, you know the subject matter of this Is probably okay for plot holes like I would assume you don't you don't take it too seriously And a lot of shooting in a scrap yard again There is that scene in the scrap yard where she's kind of doing like an erotic photo shoot, which I assume that's what her job Is although how is she making money doing that? I know we see at one point the like I guess she's selling those photos, but like is she getting I'm not clear on it Is she getting like specific? Instructions on what types of shoots to do because it seemed more like she was doing whatever she wanted to do and then Just going around and being like hey, this has nudity in it Do you want to purchase these photos like can you make a living doing that? I assume no so that seems kind of weird with this But we'll just go with it. We'll just go with it but anyway, so one of her shoots is in the scrap yard early on and It was funny to me because they show a you know Kind of a decent amount of the scrap yard and it just made me think to head and ladders film brain damage Where he shot in a scrap yard and a lot of the kind of like camera work He does in the scrap yard looks pretty similar to in-brain damage and actually the camera work in the scrap yard is the best Cinematography in the actual film in my opinion. It looked really good to be honest There were some cool interesting shots like through things especially the one where she was like masturbating in the car with the hole in the windshield and they were shooting her face through the windshield It looked looked good The internal vaginal shot is totally wacky And it looks like I guess they had like these alien kind of looking eggs Just like waiting inside of her uterus. I don't I don't know like it's it's It looks crazy, you didn't think the film was gonna go there But then again, this is Frank Hennan-Lotter So you also don't see it going to seeing like the gigantic semi-animatronic penis at the well towards the Halfway mark, I guess to Three-quarters, but anyway, um, that was just a crazy scene And I mean it it looked interesting and it kind of gave you a More of a feel of like this woman being more alien than anything And I think that's kind of part of what this plays on is, you know, people feeling outcast Which you know, if you look at all of Hennan-Lotter's films like all his stuff is very outcast You know basket case very outcast brain damage. This guy feels very outcast And uh, Frank and Hooker, you know mad scientist outcast type guy and all of the films have some degree to do with Drugs and drug addiction. This one obviously does as well, which I'm going to talk about in a little bit Um, when we were first introduced to the guy Bats, which is a weird name for a character Um, his dick kind of like flopping around under his underwear It looked like a fish flopping and it actually was pretty funny and especially when he then like is like mad at it He's like, you know stased out and he like duct tapes it down Uh That was funny. I like those kind of smaller comedic moments in the film like that and that's that was definitely one of them Um, I put Bats is like a mad jerk-off scientist with his industrial flesh light that he made That thing is crazy. I also think that that scene goes on way too long It's it's just another one of those things like that gets lumped in with all the sex and nudity stuff like just being Way too much of it to to really like have an impact because you're just over saturating the audience with that stuff So that scene in particular just goes on too long. It's funny though. I found it kind of funny But it also kind of makes the point that like there's no Person he can have sex with and obviously his hand isn't going to do it So he had to build like this industrial flesh like like I said to to take care of things if you will So how Jennifer is making money doing these shoots. I don't know or is it just for her That yeah, that actually goes to the point where you know, like I said before like she's doing these photo shoots And then she's going to try and sell the photos But I don't think she was initially getting direction on them I think she really is just shooting whatever she wants to shoot for kind of her own gratification creatively and sexually and then she's Seeing if anyone's interested in it after the fact now I would have liked if they would have gone down that path a little bit more to kind of explain that and her artwork Because they have some very interesting photos that she has in the very beginning that that one of her crew members is looking at And getting more into that would have been really nice But I feel like her character gets pretty much abandoned As soon as you meet bats like this script is very uneven and it doesn't kind of flesh out a lot of the things It should be fleshed out Which I feel like head and lotter typically does take care of that in his films like Basket case prank and hook or brain damage like he gives you enough backstory He gives you enough story development and what's going on this one. It seems very half baked Half finished kind of and the fact that Jennifer seems to be such an important character And then she's just pretty much abandoned and then is just like barely there after we meet bats Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. They should have stuck with her a little bit more. Well a lot more When the giant dong is revealed it is very funny. It looks good too. Let's be honest I mean it looks like a monster and that like a veiny pulsating monster Which comes in handy later when it detaches and goes on its raping rampage basically um And by the way that scene is hilarious because when it's like busting through the floorboards and like busting through drywall Like that's what's funny. That is hilarious about it, but But it looked good the way they made it up Pretending to have an orgasm for that long has got to be exhausting I mean I was exhausted watching it where bats has sex with the actual regular human And then she's just like having an orgasm forever And he like flips out and calls his drug dealer friend to like get some advice on what to do Like I was like astounded with how long this fake orgasm was going on Well, I mean not fake in the film, but fake in real life But just like I was amazed that this actress was able to keep doing this like that is crazy exhausting I assume because like I said, I was exhausted watching it And this is another one of those things in the film that it just goes on too long It's like you've made your point minutes ago. Why are we still doing this? Well, let's move on, please Beverly Bonner is in this film and that is awesome Now if people don't know Beverly Bonner what started out in the first basket case film and she has been in every Henin lotter film since And in this film her credited name her her character's name in imdb is kasey belial for people who don't get that belial is the Detached sigmes twin from basket case Yeah, so I thought that was really cool just to see her as soon as I saw her I was like, oh That's awesome. It's Beverly. That's so cool. And then to find out that her name in it is kasey belial She plays a neighbor who you know is hearing too much noise in bats's place. So I saw those cool. The schlong monster looks pretty gnarly And it hammering its way through the houses is funny I did like that aspect of it. Like I said, like the smaller comedic moments work well in this film, but I went on a binge. Uh, I'm sorry It went on a binge and lost all all its juice It basically seems like as soon as it got free It just started satiating its sexual desires its sexual hunger And it just went crazy and then when it's found by Jennifer and bats It's like it's dying basically because it lost all its essence and lost its juice and then You know, Jennifer's trying to bring it back and That is successful. And then then we have the end which I didn't really, you know I didn't have any feeling about like it. It was this thing of like drawing a parallel between like her final sexual um Fulfillment being tied into like having sex with god or something like it being a religious experience And it's like, I mean I get that but It's dumb like I And they didn't work on that enough they made reference to it much earlier in the film But they didn't work that angle enough and that's that's one of the things like the the script's kind of all over the place It's very sparse with the actual story. So it's you know It's not that great And then there's a song playing during the credits if you really pay attention to the lyrics This is a song by r.a. the rugged man And it is pretty funny because it's a comedic. I assume fictitious Telling of making the film with frank henon lotter. In fact, he drops henon lotter's name in the lyrics Which I thought was kind of cool. So That song is good and the music's good in the film. I will say that So here's my you know final thoughts on the on the film The dialogue is very over the top and gets run to the point of exhaustion Yeah, the dialogue's not well written Like I said, it gets run to exhaustion There are times where I think they were letting people improvise and they just let them go too much and it's not working Um, I feel like there's just Excuse me. I feel like there's just not enough real content in this film to justify it actually being a film It needed more actual story to it. It needed to be fleshed out more and It's an hour and 25 minutes. So it's not like long But it's It feels like there's not an hour and 25 minutes there. It feels like maybe there's 45 minutes there to be honest Maybe Maybe even half an hour. I don't know The idea behind the genital abnormalities create a feeling of being uniquely outcast from society And this is something that henon lotter does a lot and jennifer talks about it in her opening dialogue similar ideas This is a similar idea with dwayne and belial in basket case But if you can look at it, you know, everyone is an outcast pretty much the main characters of henon lotter films brain damage franken hooker basket case all that stuff And there's also like monsters involved a lot of the time to some degree and there's always that drug addiction like I was talking about Approaching sexual pleasure from a different perspective is interesting in this always horny and giving birth after sex Uh is being more orgasmic than the actual sex. It's kind of a crazy concept. So I like how they kind of Reimagined people's roles for sex for reproducing and you know fulfilling their desires But like I said, like there's just not enough story there though. Like they needed to flesh that out a lot more It's a good concept Just the execution This is also a typical role reversal in film with the woman being the sexual seeker At least in the beginning. I mean bats then is although he actually really tries to keep His sexual desires under wraps for the most part jennifer is just very much like let's go So her being the sexual aggressor is more of like a flipping the script So to speak and making it, you know, the woman going after it and voraciously It reminds me of like the film species Like this actually reminded me a lot of the film species of you know A woman being being an alien and she needs to mate with these human men Because jennifer doesn't even feel human. Like she kind of has dialogue that You know makes you believe From her perspective that she does she doesn't even like feel like she fits in with other people Because of what goes on with her biology bad biology Hennelotter has a thing for people dealing with monsters which are metaphors for real life issues This is self medic in this one. It's self medication and drug addiction Much like a brain damage, but also the fight to control your libido I think that's kind of another thing they were really going at And showing kind of the two different sides of the coin where jennifer is fighting against her libido But she's not fighting very hard because she's kind of just going for it And then bats is really fighting against his libido and trying to suppress it by basically being a junkie in a sense And that kind of speaks to how people deal with real life problems, you know Trauma ptsd anxiety, whatever by self medicating with drugs. So I think it's kind of you know playing on that The backstory on bats having his dick cut off when he was born Is a parallel with duane in basket case Duane lost his twin connection because of doctors and bats lost his dick because of doctors Both traumatizing separations for a young kid's development So I think it's kind of making the point much like in basket case that he's been messed up for life Because of what the doctors did to him very early on in life and when that stuff isn't fixed early on It's um, it becomes very traumatic and it really messes someone up So then it sends them down a very bad path now that plays out in basket case and that plays out Obviously in bad biology, so I found that very interesting to kind of make that connection So That's kind of all I have to say about the film It's probably a lot more than a lot of people have said about the film because because let's be honest I don't know many people actually like it when most people talk about bad biology. They just are just like That's a movie. Yeah So like I said, I wouldn't recommend it, but I'm going to rate it on the two scale since it's a henilot or film I'm going to rate it twice on my two scales on like actual is it a good film scale and then the so bad It's good scale. So on the is it a good film? All you know, both these scales possible five stars with half stars in play The overall film scale I'd give it one star out of five It's not good But out of the so bad, it's good I would actually give it two stars because there there's some good ideas there. There's some funny stuff there There's quirkiness to it. Obviously. I mean it's a henilot or film So, you know, but um, I wouldn't watch this again to be honest Well, I guess I would if I'm like introducing other people to it, but um, yeah, I wouldn't really choose to watch it again It's a it's a one and done type thing One night stand for me. 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