Panic Fest 2022: Bitch Ass Review
MadTV in its prime had a sketch involving a mannequin killer in which Michael McDonald would hilariously stalk consumers in a store and abruptly freeze when someone took notice of him approaching. The sketch is surprisingly creepy and somehow lands its laughs effortlessly thanks to McDonald's comedic sensibilities. Bitch Ass is a film that is neither a sketch nor a comedy (at least not a good one), that aims to be the newest addition to the B-horror slasher films but instead comes across as a MadTV sketch that feels unintentionally funny. One might even suggest David Pumpkins from SNL balances horror and comedy more seamlessly.
While Bitch Ass attempts to be in the same ball game as other horror hits such as Tales from the Hood and Candyman (even saying it directly to our faces by Tony Todd himself), this serial killer is excessively outmatched by the titans before him.
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As the film begins, Tony Todd sets the film up similarly to how Joe Bob Briggs introduces horror films. Only here, Todd is playing a fictional horror movie connoisseur named Titus Darq. And as he does so, he sets the stage by explaining to the audience that they need to prepare themselves for the next great villain in horror films while name-dropping Tales from the Hood, Candyman, andThe People Under the Stairs. As he plays the VHS tape, audiences are introduced to the events of the film.
The actual narrative centers around a group of youths being recruited to rob a house. The mastermind behind this crime is a gang leader named Spade (Sheaun McKinney), who is enforcing this duty on a group of prospects as their initiation to join. As he calls it, the «666 night» to join 6th street. At the center of these recruits is Q (Teon
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