Black Devil Doll (2008, Review)

Official Site: www.blackdevildoll.com

Director: Jonathan Lewis

Cast: Heather Murphy, Natasha Talonz, Christine Svendsen, Erika Branich, Precious Cox, Martin Boone

Lowest Common Denominator / Region 0 / Unrated / 16×9 widescreen / 5.1 dolby surround / 72 minutes

I don’t know if the Lewis Brothers are the best promoters ever in exploitation history, but if they aren’t I’d like to know who the fuck is. For years now fans have been salivating for this movie after seeing all of the posters, lobby cards, clips and trailers that have been thrown like so much offensive chum. That’s not even counting the posts on the many horror and exploitation movie forums I sometimes read where the boys gave us little tidbits of info to keep the fires stoked. Finally after putting off the DVD release due to longer than expected post-editing… it’s finally here, muthafuckahs! Get ready for “the meanest, nastiest, dirtiest, raunchiest, ass kickin’est Afro-American demon puppet in the most controversial film of the century”!

A black militant serial killer is executed in the electric chair after killing 15 Caucasian girls. As his soul leaves his body, it is accidentally summoned into the body of a cracker-ass “Howdy Doody” doll by a big-titted chick playing with a Ouija board. The doll is transformed into an afro-ed up black puppet with 2 things on his mind; fucking white bitches and killing white bitches… and not necessarily in that order. After he seduced said big-titted chick (we’ll just call her “BTC” from now on) into loving him, he busts out his pimp hand and lets her know the deal. He “loved her” but he needs some strange. So he talks her into inviting over 4 of her buxom friends who are ready to party in hopes of getting them drunk and getting some stank on his big, black, wooden hang-low. After the hoes arrive, along with BTC’s ex-boyfriend “White-T”, the raping and carnage begins.

So… in order to “review” this movie, I just have to take everything I have learned about “good” movies and throw it out the window. “Good” is just too subjective in this case. Black Devil Doll is exactly what the Lewis Brothers wanted: possibly the most offensive, un-PC and fucking jaw-droppingly hilarious movie I’ve ever seen. Their production company is called “Lowest Common Denominator” for a reason. The titties are plentiful, the violence is copious and the racist and sexual humor is right in the crapper! There is really no plot to speak of, no character development, nothing like that to block the fast, furious and repulsive fun. That’s the only reason I can’t call this a “good” movie. Because the production values, especially for the minuscule budget these guys shot this for, is incredible and the humor is low-brow but often witty (“Muthafuckah, what you going to do, not hire me?”).

As I said before, there is ass-tons of tits, booty and sex in BDD. The girls look like they stepped out of a hip-hop video or ghetto porn. I mean these girls are meaty… no, that sounds too mean… voluptuous… hell, they got junk in the trunk and under the hood, if you know what I’m sayin’. And I think you do. When the murdering starts, the blood and gore flows freely. Of which, the make-up effects are not bad at all. It reminded me of H.G. Lewis in his heyday. Overall the movie looks great and sounds awesome. The original music by The Giallos Flame is groovy as shit and keeps the action moving along smoothly. There is even an original hip-hop song during a car wash scene that had me laughing out loud with myself. There is so much rad shit in here that I could go into, but I wouldn’t do it justice. Just pick up the damn DVD for yourself, bitch!

Speaking of which, the DVD got royal treatment from the boys. Along with the usual trailers, commentaries and stills galleries, you are treated to footage of festival viewings and director Jonathan Lewis throwing out big black dildos to the raucous crowd at the New Beverly Cinema viewing. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the insanely funny animations by Rich Moyer which includes anti-pirating, MPAA and Obama Meets the KKK skits. That dude needs a feature length movie based on those characters, pronto! If you aren’t convinced yet, just look at the amazing DVD cover and posters by the amazingly talented Stephen Romano. Everything about this package and its contents are fucking insanely well done.

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