What do you do when you’ve just taken a hit of the good shit, and then hear a knock on your door, only to be greeted by a butt naked chick that you’re not sure if you’ve met before? In this case, you get sodomized by a dude that looks like he just walked off the set of The Hanger. This is the fate of a med student, Ray, and the opening scene in Somebody’s Knocking At Your Door.
What better way to mourn the death of a friend than to have a party, right? As Justin wakes from his Xanax stupor, he sees everyone sexing and boozing it up, but rather than grab a beer and join the party, he’s troubled and wants to talk about it. So, he shares that he just saw Ray lying dead in the morgue, but they pawned it off as a drug-induced side effect, and continue to live it up. The next scene we see Ray’s cold body on the slab, where the autopsy shows that his tongue was bitten off, he was penetrated by a 15 inch phallus, and he has deep scratches on his back. Dang, does Freddy Kreuger swing both ways now, or is this just another entry in the Death Factory series?
So, the police interrogate them, and as it turns out, the last time they saw Ray was when they were doing drugs and listening to the psychiatric evaluations of well-known killers, John and Wilma Hopper. (As if the drugs wouldn’t make you paranoid enough… ) And so, one by one they start getting plinked off by the naked and perverse killers, which included several ding-dong scenes, yes, the infamous 15 inches is unleashed, and what I like to call the head-first birth re-enactment (in reverse).
While all of this is supposed to be for shock and awe, and maybe a giggle or two, I have to ask, What's the recent rage with showing dicks? Now, I have nothing against films with male nudity, unless it's gay porn, but showing dicks just for the sake of showing them is a bit ridiculous. Sure, the dick gag can be humorous, when done at the right time, and when meant to be funny (kinda like the fart/poop gag), but not as a means to carry the storyline. (Hmm, maybe that's why I didn't care much for Bad Biology either.) Has male genitalia been taboo for so long that we must exploit it every chance we get now? Maybe it’s just the type of movies I watch (horror/exploitation/weird shit), but the one-eyed snake is becoming more and more mainstream, and that’s not necessarily a good thing, not even for the female viewer.
Come to find out, it was all a dream/hallucination while Justin was under the influence, and while movies like Trainspotting have done it better, not all is lost with SKAYD, as there is nudity and blood/gore, but it’s not for every viewer (including this one). I like over-the-top movies (Header/Sick Girl), and often recommend them to off-beat viewers like myself, but too many dicks in one place, usually means that either egos will swell and a fight will break out, or other things may swell and I’m in the wrong place. So, if you actually liked Bad Biology, or even Watch Out (also from Breaking Glass Pictures), you might like this one, otherwise explore the world of deadly female anatomy, like Teeth or Sexual Parasite, both of which will make you grab your package and hang on for dear life.
On a side note: I noticed familiar faces from Easter Bunny, Kill!, Kill!, the black dude now plays a stuttering druggie named Joe (aka Spaz), Remy plays a detective, and Ray (the pedophile) plays an officer, and has an offbeat black phallic joke while in the morgue. All of these guys have talent, and while I didn’t really care to see a fat guy covered in blood running cock-eyed (ha ha, literally) because he’s lugging around a king king dong, something tells me we’ll see these guys again in more Breaking Glass/Vicious Films.
