The Killer Condom
The Killer Condom
| 29 August 1996 (USA)
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In New York City, detective Luigi Mackeroni investigates a string of mysterious penile mutilations at the Hotel Quickie. After Mackeroni attempts to have a tryst with a gigolo he meets in the lobby, a carniverous condom bites off his right testicle and flees, which sets the detective off on a quest to stop the predatory prophylactic once and for all.

Reviews
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.
Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Maz-hell This movie is a complete "what in the hell am I looking at?" kind of movie. Not for the conservative or for the homophobic or for the religious. It is a criticism to noir films, action films, cop films, horror films... probably every film on the planet.This movie's plot is insane: A condom that eats the genitals of every man that uses it. From republicans that look a lot like Trump (in 1996) to crazy experiments with condoms with brains I have no idea what to say.Characters? The titular is Luigi Macarroni, a gay italian cop that speaks German in New York. He is the least insane one.The dialogue is so abysmal it is bellygrabingly funny. The cinemathography and photography are more cheap than the effects (and these are cheap as hell), but it actually feels adequate to the insane plot. Scenography? Supremely cheap, but you feel in ambience. Seriously. It is an enjoyable, cheap film. Would watch again.
MisterWhiplash Killer Condom is the kind of movie that goes below the belt of B-movie (though above the Z-movies that Troma usually churns out like butter), and somehow through its German-made/set in New York ways it's actually watchable. Or, to put it another way, it's what the VH1 channel might dub as 'awesomely bad'. You know the kind of awesomely bad movie- it's when something is up on screen that is really despicable and horrid and, as others have pointed out, trashy, but at the same time it's also done unpretentiously in its quasi German art-house sect. I'd almost imagine if Wim Wenders had to fill a quota for Lloyd Kaufman by gun-point this might be it. Or maybe not. Maybe it's just an idea for a movie that gets cross-bled with a gay love-story involving a cop- Udo Samuel as Luigi Mackeroni (yeah, the only Italian-name pun that has surpassed what Nintendo did for Mario)- who in the midst of investigating multiple cases of a certain creature of the picture's title taking away genitalia, is in the cross-hairs of not only a male love-triangle with Bob (err, Bebette), but also a random guy that always calls him 'Cop'. That he stills pines for Sicily doesn't help matters, especially with something personal of his, which I dare not reveal, that he loses early on in a very inane, odd way.Director Martin Walz is adapting from a comic book apparently, but I wondered when watching it if how much was taken from the book and how much he just threw in on his own cognizance. It's a stupid movie, when you think about it, but it's the kind of stupidity that I actually don't mind watching, at least in 80 minute doses. And at times individual scenes take on a kind of brilliant absurdism that's a combination of just seeing the condom go to town (and just move around in general), the reactions from those around it with either disbelief or malaise that no one really gets what's going on, and the Gay material that goes past making fun of itself and almost becomes endearing in its all-too-what-the-hell ways. Don't look for logic here, is what I'm saying, particularly in the last twenty minutes as the filmmakers go to lengths to explain how the killer condom phenomena occurred, even as it comes closest to justifying Giger's involvement in the project (there is an uncanny relation to this and some of the Alien movies, particularly with what's almost a 'Queen Condom').Killer Condom is many things, but great art likely wont be one of them. But unlike some other horror movies that have terrific titles, this one wasn't as much of a disappointment as it could have been. At the least Samel is consistent with his character's tough but sort of sensitive character, and what's laughably dumb about it goes alongside the director's more lofty visual ambitions. As it says on the front cover, it's both a Troma video release AND an entry into the Berlin Film Festival.
InpraiseofFolly The concept for this movie alone is worth renting it. For all of it's flaws , you cannot say that "Killer Condom" is unoriginal or unimaginative. I was actually surprised , during the first hour of the film , to see that I had actually been able to stomach a Troma film. The movies tries to have a B-movie type feel to it but numerous scenes within this actually lead me to believe that it was actually made by someone quite competent. The humour is crude and largely genitalia centered ( that's a given with a title like "Killer condom". ) which you would think could keep you entertained for close to two hours. To my dismay though , it gets old rather fast and the movie just seems to go on and on like a really funny sketch that goes on a little too long and ends up being awkwardly unfunny. Meh , Rent it anyway.
bjerho Detective Luigi Mackeroni is a hardboiled, chain-smoking, Sicilian, well-hung gay(?) New York cop. One day he gets a weird case to solve. A schoolgirl has bitten off her principals...penis. She claims that she didn't (that it just fell off and ran away by itself). More weird cases just like that one begins to appear. He traces them to a hotel / brothel where he himself used to hang. On his way to the room where the crime occured he meets up with a young male prostitute (Billy).They enter the room to have sex. Suddenly the condom on the drawer jumps down on the floor. Mackeroni bends down to take a look. The condom attacks him and bites off one of his testicles.Now it's personal!!!! Mackeroni has now dedicated his life to find the killer condom. The more he searches, the more complex the story gets...This is a very funny story filled with gay-humour, drag-queens, disco-music, bitten-off male genitals and other organs (at least one nose). It's a great combination of gore and humour. The language is german, which isn't too bad. I give it a 7/10.
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