THE TAINT

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" a film experience I will never forget…
you’ll laugh so hard you’ll piss and shit yourself "

- Ain't It Cool News

" horror flicks are a dime a dozen, but The Taint
seems to examine the genre with a postmodern wink. "

" Trashy. Filthy. Irredeemable. Disgusting.
Shocking. Reprehensible. "

- Dread Central

" curiously smart and amazingly fortunate to succeed
in virtually everything it attempts "

" a bit like finding a hairy cock and balls drawing in a toilet stall
and marveling at how well it was drawn. "

" You'll like it, though you'll hate yourself for doing so. "

" approaches a kind of brilliance in suggesting that a
society which glorifies violence against women is doomed to
one big bummer of a sausage party. "

" un regalo para amantes del splatter exagerado y entretenido "

- Lamorgue Cinema

" una patada en las gónadas al cine comercial "

- Almas Oscuras

" Somehow, it all comes together to paint an absurdist portrait of the male ego that's laced with black humor and lunacy throughout. "

- Oh, The Horror!

" comedy flows just as much as the blood and body fluids "

- Cool Target: Action Movie Reviews

" This film had me laughing so hard that my sides were hurting. "

- Slasher Film Sanctuary

" it's about time... to have your mind blown and pants jizzled "

Horrorphilia Interview

" Its funny, its gross, its controversial "

" a kick in balls gore fest "

- Horror Chronicles

" one of those rare independent movies that delivers the goods. "

" ostentatiously vulgar, distasteful, soiled vision of a world
in which the primitive lust for murder and copulation
broke from the chain of false culture and political correctness "

- Horror Online (Polish)

" a never ending onslaught of filthy entertainment that is
sure to please the most degenerate gore hounds out there "

- The Liberal Dead

" so bad that you can't help but watch
and demand that your friends watch it as well. "

- The Film Reel

" The satire is unrelenting and nothing short of brilliant. "

- Phantom's Reviews

" The male audience must be pummeled out
of their cock obsession through visceral means,
as mere rational persuasion has proved insufficient. "

" one of the most enjoyable films made in 2010 "

- Knifed in Venice

" the kind of film the retarded love child birthed by
John Waters and David Cronenberg would create. "

- All Things Horror

Complete Package Review

- anotherclicheddesign

" a cult classic ready to be served "

" Most people will hate it, many will love it with a passion,
but nobody can really ignore it. "

- Apocalypse Later

" wants to destroy every sense of decency and morals
that a viewer might be holding onto these days "

" Pink is the new black, and penises are the new breasts "

- The Horror Effect

Film Marketing: DVD As Art Object

" The humor is brash, disgusting and offensive, but
it's smartly written and executed effectively, which is more than I can say for what passes for mainstream comedy nowadays. "

- Chuck Norris Ate My Baby

" good laughs, great score, and good gore "

" a crazy, fun, and gory flick that's
done in the style of a Monty Python skit. "

- Anything Horror

" es un visionado obligado para todos los amantes
del cine gore y bizarro "

- Nido de Cuervos

" bodily fluid-drenched indie masterpiece "

- B Movie Film Vault

" técnicamente es impecable, visualmente, y
hasta tiene un montón de efectos especiales "

- Dimension Fantastica

" what this film lacks in subtly,
it more than made up for in explicitness "

- A Little Dead Podcast

" awfully funny and wildly inventive. "

- Cinema Crazed

" To say it's offensive is quite the understatement... 9/10 "

- B Movies and Beyond

" I was shocked, surprised, and
absolutely moist with entertainment. "

- Mad Mad Mad Mad Movies

RVA Magazine Interview

" There's a boldness to 'The Taint' that is typically
only seen in the work of seasoned directors; an ardent refusal to compromise for the sake of commerciality "

- Film Fanaddict

" new-age trash with punk glamor "

- Soiled Sinema

" everyone should see 'The Taint' at least once in their lives,
if anything, just so you can say that you've seen it. "

" a fusion of David Lynch's art house sensibility
with Troma's campy, cartoon violence "

- Strange Kids Club

" The Taint is a constant reminder of our stupidity. "

- Sound on Sight

" The whole thing seems to be gleefully traipsing through every taboo possible, high on its own apparent lack of morality. "

- Cinema Suicide

" out-Tromas Lloyd Kaufman himself "

" a strange mix of very cool ideas, very crude ideas
and an infatuation with the male anatomy
quite unlike anything I have ever seen before. "

- Varied Celluloid

" provides more shock and schlock than your
average blockbuster dares to present. "

" It's not so much tongue in cheek as it is double fisted
middle fingers to the MPAA and society in general. "

- The Blood Sprayer

" shockingly great special effects and the sort of jaw-dropping eagerness to offend that only a true independent film can offer "

Horror Movie Fans Interview

" En fin, una nueva comedia cargadita de sangre,
tripas, sexo, humor chusco, con aires tromáticos "

" Disgusting. Offensive. Foul. Hilarious and wacky.
In other words: it's what a good horror film should be. "

- The Blood Sprayer

" Calling it genius might be reaching a bit, but it's pretty darn close. "

- Beyond Hollywood

" One of the gnarliest, filthiest, most repugnant and absolutely hysterical visions of the apocalypse ever seen. "

"get ready for 70 minutes of some of the craziest shite
you'll ever lay your eyes on "

" It's truly a shock that one film could go so low -
and be so absolutely hysterical. "

" I hate life... but I love this movie! "

- Horror Movie Central

" Love it or hate it, they really don't make movies like this anymore, at least not in America. "

" #1 comedy horror film of the year "

I Like Horror Movies Interview

Planet of Terror Interview

" it could be the best independent horror comedy I've seen all year."

- Horror Movie Central

Monster Island Resort Interview

" This is a fucked up movie, made by fucked up people,
and that's what's good about it. "

" You will be offended, but you'll also laugh, and
I think that's the point - to be grotesquely funny while
questioning just where the truth lies in the joke. "

- The Moon is a Dead World

" so damn bad that it's genius "

- Dollar Bin Horror

Film Monthly Interview

I Like Horror Movies Interview

" If Ed Wood and the guys from 'Jackass'
joined forces to make an in-your-face monster movie,
it would look a lot like this. "

" imagine John Waters and Peter Jackson teaming up,
doing copious amounts of drugs, and shooting this weird misogynistic nerd sex fantasy thing. "

- Rotten Cotton

" I laughed, I cried, I nearly vomited. "

- The Manchester Morgue

" the most offensive thing I've seen... ever... in my entire life "

- The Fear Inside

" this exercise in blatancy, brutality and belligerence
has a clever side and that keeps our eyes glued to the screen
as much as the expectation of the next taboo to topple. "

- Cinema Head Cheese & Apocalypse Later

" a well balanced horror / comedy hybrid "

" If you thought The Human Centipede was bad, well,
you've never seen a man on a skateboard shooting at
bulging boners with a .44 Magnum. "

- The Horror Review Hole

Taint, Monstro Win Big At Syracuse Horror Fest

" a tribute to low-budget gore classics that
more than pays off in laughs, blood, guts, and splatter!"

- I Like Horror Movies

" a new genre of low budget horror comedy.
The American WTF movie. "

- the jaded viewer

" a surprisingly accomplished independent film "

" a sleazy and violent riot that stands as
a testament to guerrilla filmmaking "

" Is this film extreme and will it cater to gore hounds?
Sure. I don't think I've ever seen a
penis-exploding montage in a film before. "

- Brutal As Hell

" The best movie ever "

" the most deplorable, disgusting, trashfest I've ever seen.
I fucking loved it. "

- Planet of Terror

" Its like John Waters and Herschell Gordon Lewis had a sleep over, snorted coke and listened to 80's synth pop
while getting each other off as they simultaneously came up with new and repulsive ways to gross the shit out of people. "

- Planet of Terror

" If you love Troma and even early Peter Jackson... "

" It's like John Waters meets Yoshihiro Nishimura
with no money whatsoever. "

" those of you who thrive on B-movie madness
will surely find a metric ton of giddy delight "

- Beyond Hollywood

" underground gem "

" one of the funniest films I've ever seen "

- Stefan Popescu (Triple J Hack Podcast)

" it demands to be seen in a packed cinema
of like-minded freakazoids. "

" the greatest independent film ever created ...
like John Waters times 1,000. "

- Seth Sonstein

" the most entertaining pile of irredeemable trash
I've seen in a long time. "

- The Portland Mercury

Alexander M. Chang Interview

Y101 Radio Interview

" a full on presentation of misogyny
that by the end has succeeded in being
an examination of and not an example of. "

- Todd Raviotta (RVA Magazine)

Style Weekly Article

- Press Material