Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Drainiac (2000)

"Drainiac" is a shoddily made, though somewhat amibtious, low-budget crap-fest. Despite the one or two things that almost had potential, the movie is ultimately a bore.

A teenage girl is forced into helping her asshole dad fix up an old house out in the woods to be 'flipped'. He leaves her with the grimy grunt work and heads into town, so her friends (along with an annoying dickhead tag-along) drive up to keep her company and help out. They eventually catch on to a 'water demon' inhabiting the house's pipes and attacking through drains so an exorcist shows up to rid the house of its liquid evil...

How shitty is this movie? I swear, in the first three minutes of this thing an actor walks into a boom mic that is fully in the shot. FULLY. Another terrific blunder involves someone exiting the frame, accidentally kicking the camera's tripod causing the shot to wobble and actually saying "oops". In no way did this seem to be intentional based on the overall 'tone' of the movie. The acting is godawful, the effects are cheesy as hell - with a lot of 'reverse' shots of water and rubbery creatures around the end. In all, I guess there's enough here to laugh at if you're in the mood for something to mock. Otherwise, "Drainiac" is a pile of shit.

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