DVD Review: Pervirella (D)

Pervirella (1997)
Directed By Alex Chandon
Starring Pervirella
Grade: D

I have to admit that I didn't get very far into this movie before I had to simply give up. So I can't give it an F because A) at least they tried to make something weird here (I'll credit them for that) and B) I would feel bad giving something an F that I didn't even watch to the end unless it stars Sandra Bullock or Keanu Reeves.

But this film is really just a complete catastrophe. Imagine what you would get if a 10 year old directed a weird mix of Monty Python, Dune and a porno flick. Hey, come to think of it, that sounds pretty good, but trust me, it just didn't work here.

Whats wrong with Pervirella? Everything. The sound is bad, the lighting is amateurish and the story is stupid. You can tell they are going for camp laughs, but the immature humor is so over the top it loses all sense of subtlety. There are lots of weird claymation scenes that left me completely dumbfounded, and the sound quality was horrible. I love weird movies, and I love bad movies, and I especially love weird bad movies, but Pervirella just tries way too hard and the result is an amateurish, annoying mess.

If you are looking for a strange, sometime funny, erotic horror film, avoid this one and go for Playgirls and the Vampire instead.

Review by Scott Standish

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