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Otis (Raw Feed Series) (Uncut) (DVD)
Otis (Bostin Christopher) has everything he needs for the prom: the corsage, the convertible, the cool baby-blue tux (not to mention the fully equipped torture chamber in his basement). He even has the girl -- a pretty blonde he's named Kim -- who is dying to be his date. Literally. Sometime pizza guy and full-time psycho Otis thinks he's a wicked dude until he meets the Lawsons, his latest victim's happy suburban family. But the Lawsons aren't happy anymore ... and they have a truckload of power tools in this darkly comedic chiller!
Amazon.com A fling at a horror-creepfest-black comedy, Otis means to score points by building a revenge fantasy into its tale of a junior-league Hannibal Lecter wannabe. Otis is a fat, nerdy pizza delivery guy whose home dungeon becomes a prison for high-school girls he's kidnapped. His current victim, Riley (Ashley Johnson), is made to endure all manner of yucky role-playing, including a fake prom date. Eventually Riley's family will turn suburban avengers, and the twisted humor of the piece will take center stage, but the movie spends far too much time on what can only be called torture porn--even if it's couched as a dark comedy. It's been done so many times before that the only interesting section of the movie, the family's reaction, is guilty by unsavory association. They're played by Illeana Douglas, Daniel Stern (carrying a warped memory of Home Alone), and Jared Kusnitz, all of whom appear to be enjoying the revolting things they're allowed to do. Otis is played by Bostin Christopher, who looks like Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket by way of Pruitt Taylor Vince. Most of the cast spends the movie in a full hysterical mode, including Kevin Pollak, as Otis's brother, and Jere Burns, as a colossally insensitive police investigator. The latter scarfs up most of the movie's genuine laughs, just by underplaying his most inappropriate comments. That sense of understatement could be used elsewhere in this overly familiar piece of sado-comedy. --Robert Horton
