Honestly, off the top of my head I can’t think of a better way to spend 35, 000 1982 US dollars. Making an intentionally bad movie, with stop-action animation and a really ridiculous monster called Belial and some of the worst acting ever put on screen. I can see Frank Henenlotter actually saying to his actors, ‘You performed that scene too well… try to make it shittier.’
But, having said that, the film has a certain charm to it. And I think a lot of it has to do with the director simply having way too much fun, not taking ANYTHING AT ALL in the film too seriously, and lampooning New Yorkers, doctors, ghetto hotel dwellers, receptionists, everyone. A kind of admirable laziness runs throughout the dialogue, as if the director knew all too well a line was atrocious, but left it in there anyway, just to mess with people. A mindless, fun 90 minutes. 3 stars.
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