Buttcrack (1998)

Another crazed offering from Troma, this time as distributors rather than production team.Jim Jarsen brings us the bizarre tale of two flatmates whose relationship is strained to breaking point because of the inability of one to, literally, keep his trousers up: Wade is lazy, over-weight but generally cheerful. His only real flaw is that his arse cleavage is virtually always on show. His roommate, Brian, is planning a romantic evening with his girlfriend, but Wade keeps interrupting them. Brian's girlfriend is none too pleased, and has to leave, so sickened is she by the sight of his crack. Brian intends to propose and get her to move in, but is worried that she will refuse due to her intolerance of Wade's posterior. As luck would have it, Brian accidentally electrocutes Wade whilst he's taking a bath, paving the way for the marriage. Unfortunately for him, Wade's sister is a practitioner of voodoo, and resurrects her overweight brother to wreak revenge, and the only way he can ever return to the Earth to lie in peace is to slaughter the man whose hands he died by.....Blackly comic, irreverent and bizarre, this is a much better Troma movie than the title suggests.As ever, the dialogue is atrocious, the acting barely credible, but the general feel is one of enjoyment and, it seems, a good time was had by all.Enjoyable nonsense.

What can I say? I loved this movie! I can see where it wouldn't be for everybody, but it was for me. I don't know when I've laughed so hard at things so dumb, but this movie has plenty of dumb funny scenes. A particular favorite is the ride in the car when Wade swears Ken is gay. I totally love it. Yeah sure, it's low budget, no big stars, Troma, sub par acting, but come on! Isn't that also what makes it great? Does every movie have to be academy award worthy before it is "good?" The badness of this movie is what is good about it. The fact that a movie like this even got made is a good F*** to Hollywood and all its hype. I hope there will be a part 2.

this was a great movie, for being so short of a movie! i've seen this one 2 or 3 times and it doesn't get old. for the budget that this movie looks like it had, it was excellent. my favorite character was the preacher, with his obnoxious southern preaching and his dancing for the lord, haha. i just wish all troma movies were like this one (if only sgt kabuki man was as short as this one, it would have probably been good). highly recommended and it doesn't even take long to watch.

Buttcrack takes every convention that we have seen tirelessly of zombie films, and totally scraps them in favor of a brilliantly original redefining of the genre. The dialog is hilarious, the acting is perfect, the soundtrack rocks, and the story is amazing! I can't say enough good things about Buttcrack. Yes, it's low budget, but that doesn't mean the budget wasn't well spent. If you haven't seen it, see it. Watch the dvd with the director's commentary after seeing it straight without, and then with the producer's. Absorb everything you can of Buttcrack. Make it a part of you.