Saturday, 18 November 2023

Death Toilet Number 2 (2019)


Still just as short on funds and talent but crucially lacking the laughs that made 2018's "Death Toilet" somewhat tolerable, "Death Toilet Number 2" finds dumpy Vietnam veteran Brett Baxter (Mike Hartsfield) and Father Marcus-D (Isaac Golub) reuniting to once again match wits (and wipes) with a demonically possessed shitter. As in the last film, the actors flub their lines, struggle to contain their own laughter, and repeat half-cocked catchphrases such as "the power of the wipes compels you" while waving crosses at their stationary foe. In between the toilet scenes we get stock Vietnam war footage that's supposed to parallel the life and death struggle the protagonists are having with the toilet but only ever feels like padding in what can very loosely be called a 54-minute"film." I may have laughed once but I can't really remember, this being a movie that feels like an attack on your mental faculties. Anyway, more gross practical effects and less Adobey "special" effects would probably improve this formula a lot.







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