KILLER PINATA (2015)

KILLER PINATA (2015)

Tagline:  Filled With Sweet Revenge

(Horror, Disdain, Run) [R]

Have I not earned it? Trust me Tell me! Tell me about this evil that walks among us?

Okay, so the plot of this one is pretty simple. There is a man that works at a piñata factory and he gets made fun of all the time. One day his co-workers decide to start physically messing with him and he ends up falling in a piñata paper shredder. He then comes back to life and exacts revenge on all those who abuse piñatas (apparently not necessarily those who actually caused the accident). That backstory is like 2 minutes of this movie. The actual movie is a lot like the beginning of LLAMAGEDDON where a bunch of people are throwing a party and get picked off by the killer piñata one by one.

The Good - For me this movie thing starts out pretty awesome. The cheese level is at 1000% and that is exactly what I expected. The killer piñata isn’t done with a lot of fancy tricks or effects. It’s literally just a piñata. There are also some pretty funny moments in this thing which includes a ridiculous 60 second or so weapon-making montage that is pretty cool. 

The Bad – Just about every other damn thing about this freakin movie. The actors seem like they were picked out of the line at Costco on a Thursday morning. The dialog is weak which I expected, but it’s also extremely unfunny. The mom and dad of the main character are essentially the crappiest parents ever. I am guessing the director really wanted to sell paintings of naked abstract women because the house where the whole movie takes place has two of them (along with an iconic photo of Audrey Hepburn). Those paintings are shown about every 3 minutes in this movie. Most of this movie's humor I can take, I mean, I have seen a lot of crap comedy for the sake of just watching something off the wall and bizarre, but this movie is mostly terrible people treating each other terribly. For a while, you might be rooting for the piñata but then some completely sick and unnecessary moments take place in the film where you kinda feel he’s gotta go also. By the end of this thing, even the main character has completely lost it in another poorly written dumpster fire moment which puts the icing on the cake for this piece of crap. 

When you are going to make a crazy flick like this, you have to retain the people that are rooting for something worthwhile even if it’s just the total bizarreness of the plot. KILLER PINATA doesn’t even bother doing that delivering middle fingers to its audience and everyone involved.  So of course that means it’s likely to get a part 2, just because. 

I love a good crazy movie, in fact, the nuttier the idea the more I am “FOR” it. Sadly the execution of this movie during its final 40 minutes or so is so brazenly bad I would have rather watched a mosquito outside my window just clawing away trying to get in and suck my blood for 87 minutes. 

For its very very very few decent scenes, I have to give KILLER PINATA a 1 out of 7. I still had hope 45 minutes in. It’s not the worst movie ever, maybe not even in the bottom 50, but Angry Mule Productions seems to have enough disdain for its audience to have tried their hardest to take this thing there. A fun idea completely wasted. 

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