The latest Troma flick “Father’s Day” is one of the schlock studio’s intentionally bad movies that succeeds a little too well.
Decapitation, lunging cannibal attacks and vigorously wielded chainsaws fill the screen in a movie whose raspberry-jam budget must have been enormous. An unpleasant Buffalo Bill-like fellow called F – – kman (Mackenzie Murdock), who enjoys raping, murdering and eating fathers, is pursued by a desperado named Ahab (Adam Brooks, wearing Snake Plissken’s eyepatch). He works against a backdrop of strippers and satanic rituals.
Musical cues, acting, sets and special effects spoof the kind of fare you’d see on a ramshackle indie station in 1978. (There’s even a commercial break that yields an amusing trailer for a “Star Wars” rip-off.) Though you could make a case that such a wickedly dedicated gross-out beats the many unintentionally bad movies that ooze across screens each month, or amuse yourself locating the references to “Un Chien Andalou” or “Kill Bill,” the jokes in this and other films by legendarily tasteless Troma Entertainment wear thin almost immediately.