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SCROTAL VENGEANCE
Produced by Casey Bowker, Tim Ekkebus, and Christ Seaver
Written, Videotaped, and Directed by Christ SeaverSkeet Depula - Chris Walk
Teenape - Himself
Razor McBleed - Jesse Green
Bethany - Virginia MaseryIn 2002, Chris Seaver had the good fortune of getting Tempe Video to release edited-down versions of two of his earlier movies as bonus features to higher profile releases. In 2003, both of those titles, FILTHY MCNASTY and MULVA: ZOMBIE ASS KICKER, will be getting their own release in their entirety. For what it's worty, MULVA was a movie that didn't bring so much as a snicker to my face, while FILTHY MCNASTY had me in tears. SCROTAL VENGEANCE falls somewhere in the middle.
The low-brow humor of Seaver's creations would leave the makers of the American Pie films blushing. When scenes involving oral sex come into play, viewers get plastic dildos splattering pearl necklaces with all the eruptive fury of Mt. Vesuvius. Jokes like this are about as far as Seaver pushes in SCROTAL VENGEANCE, which doesn't even come close to the fecal masturbation found in FILTHY MCNASTY, a movie so gross that it actually lives up to its title.
The primary players are the vampire-with-a-heart-of-gold Skeet Depula, his curvy girlfriend Bethany, and smack-talking sidekick Teenape who spends most of the movie trying to get into Bethany's pants. Together they are a likable enough bunch who seem oblivious to their eccentricities.
Mayor McCheese must have been out sick with a case of the clap, or something. Instead we get some joker calling himself Razor McBleed as the villain. The fact that he's a vampire is bad enough, but he's a vampire with an unhealthy addiction to Journey, that dreadful power-pop band from the early 1980's (mind you, lead singer Steve Perry struck out on a successful solo career and gave us that seminal high school dance classic Oh Sherry...or was it called Hold On...does it really matter, it was 2 decades ago - most of my readers weren't even alive then...).
The plot is non-existent, and there's not denying that SCROTAL VENGEANCE is a bad movie on all technical levels, it doesn't even try to be good. The actors can't act, the jokes are often too esoteric (or just plain stale), and Seaver doesn't really know how to direct or line up coverage, but even with all that going against the production, it doesn't prevent everyone from putting on one goofy-ass movie that's pretty damn likeable. SCROTAL VENGEANCE is a movie that succeeds in spite of itself. With all of SCROTAL's vulgarity, it's never mean-spirited. Seaver was able to bestow the movie with a good natured charm that somehow makes everything acceptable. In that regard SCROTAL is similar to older Troma titles like The Toxic Avenger.
The dvd release self-distributed by Seaver on the Low Budget Pictures website contains only one noteworthy extra, almost 20 minutes of out-takes. If Tempe decides to properly distribute this title as well, I hope they give up something more. The main feature barely runs an hour.