Friday, August 30, 2013

Dead Hooker in a Trunk (2009)

Three horrible, unappealing characters and a questionable Christian guy go out to run an errand, notice a foul  smell in the car, and discover a dead hooker in the trunk.  While it's confusing how she got there, Badass and Junkie were so wasted the previous night that they can't remember if they were involved in the death.  Geek makes a call to get the cops which doesn't work out well, and everyone spends the rest of the movie in various violent situations while trying to figure out how to dispose of the body.

I'd heard some good things about this movie, but I barely made it through this. I even did some fast forwarding at times because I couldn't take it, but wanted to see how it ended.  This is mostly dialogue, which would be fine if the dialogue were interesting.

There's no explanation for why our Christian boy from the Youth group goes along with disposing of a corpse, or why Geek doesn't make any real effort to get the police involved.

A good writers can often give a jerk character some sort of appealing trait or emotional context so the audience will grow to like them. But everyone got more annoying and less appealing as the movie went on. There's no one to root for and you just don't care if they live or die.

I'm all for messed up movies that are so weird and entertaining that you overlook its flaws. But there has to be something about the movie that reels you in so you can suspend disbelief, and this doesn't have it. You just end up hoping everyone dies because there's no reason to like them.

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