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Monster Man (2003)

Overall Score: 8 out of 10

On this highway, the roadkill is HUMAN!

Starring: Eric Jungmann, Justin Urich, Aimee Brooks, Michael Bailey Smith, Joe Goodrich, Tim Sitarz, Johnny Green, Stevee de Relian, Robert R. Shafer, Diana Morgen

Director: Michael Davis

Running Time: 96 minutes

US MPAA rating: R
UK BBFC rating: 18
Comedy, Horror

Two old college friends are driving cross-country. Adam (Eric Jungmann) is a velcro-wearing, twenty-five year old virgin trying to stop Betty-Ann, the unrequited love of his life, from getting married to somebody else. Harley (Justin Urich) is along for the ride, hoping to coax Adam out of being a "wuss", and to insult pretty much anyone that they meet on the way. But to prevent any confusion with writer/director Michael Davis' previous teen romcoms ('100 Girls', 'Girl Fever'), 'Monster Man' opens with the image of a living person's head being crushed in a vice - for Davis is taking the viewer on a hilariously bloody trip into the terrain of comedy horror.

Soon, in a backwoods landscape littered with roadkill, pentagrams and amputees, the low-brow buddy heroes find themselves playing cat-and-mouse with a hideously scarred monster man (Michael Bailey Smith) - whom they come to know affectionately as 'Fuckface' - and his fuel-injected, armour-plated monster truck. When their beautiful companion, the hitchhiker Sarah (Aimee Brooks), is seized by the pizza-faced killer, Adam follows him back to his charnelhouse cabin, where he meets the whole monstrous family, and all the pieces in this dead funny mystery finally fit into place.

Early in 'Monster Man' Harley tells Adam that the 'rosebud' in Orson Welles' 'Citizen Kane' actually referred to Hearst's girl's pussy. Regardless of whether this is true or not, the comment positions 'Monster Man' as a 'Citizen Kane' amongst comedy horrors - and that it truly is, with enough giggles and grand guignol (AND pussy - although not quite in the way that you might imagine) to rank up there amongst greats of the genre like 'Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn', 'Braindead', and

It's Got: The line "I'm a corpse burrito, dude!"

It Needs: Hell, it's got monster trucks - what more does any film need?

Alternatives: Jeepers Creepers, Roadkill, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, House of 1000 Corpses, Wrong Turn

Summary: This big-trucking, redneck-baiting comedy horror is bloody fun. Overall Score: 8 out of 10


Review Date: 2nd March 2005


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