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Sloppy the Psychotic
USA 2012
produced by Mike O'Mahony for Maniac Films
directed by Mike O'Mahony
starring Mike O'Mahony, James Costa, Lauren Ojeda, Lewis Beaver, Stacey Fitzpatrick, Fred Ficke, Norm Copsetta, John O'Brien, Kayla Beaver, Rob Narwocki, Matthew Thomason, John O'Brien, Knox Chase, Tina Khaladze, Julie Ann Hamolko, Gia Z. Taylor, D.M. Folger jr, Andie Hall, Joseph Sheehan, Terence Salmon, Jason Swoyer, Logan Swoyer, Kate O'Mahony, Grace Aguilar, Joseph Niroda, Tom Carchidi, Scott Duca, Erich Ficke, Murphy Richards
written by Erich Ficke, Mike O'Mahony, music by James Costa, special effects by Mike O'Mahony
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Sloppy (Mike O'Mahony) is a clown, you know, one you book for parties
and the like, and he never wanted to be anything else, even if his parents
nag about his choice of career all the time, even if he's constantly
bullied for it. Then though, at a children's party, a mother thinks he has
laid hands on her daughter and not only throws him out but also makes sure
he gets fired from his agency. He gets very drunk upon this, and the next
morning wakes up with a dead girl lying next to him. When he later that
day gets bullied at a party he's supposed to perform, that drives him over
the edge completely, and he pretty much kills everyone, from the bullies
at the party to his boss (Lewis Beaver) to a prostitute he picks up to a
bunch of handicapped people just for the fun of it. Still, Sloppy has
not completely forgotten who he is, a clown, and he honours an egagement
to a children's party later that day - a children's party that's supposed
to be his bloody masterpiece, so he even brings his own food, made out of
- well, all I'm saying is he had to do something with the corpses piling
up ... Clowns can be scary, that's a given, and in its best
moments, Sloppy the Psychotic manages to exploit the creepiness of
clowns to full effect - unfortunately, the best moments of this movie are
few and far between, and for the most part, it instead focuses on
gross-out humour, jokes that are just supposed to be controversial (like
the slaughter of children), and hommages to olf and cheap gore flicks
(especially the ones by Herschell Gordon Lewis) - and this only works for
a while, then it gets tiring, especially since the plot becomes repetitive
after a while and too many scenes just lack narrative build-up. Now I'm
not saying the film is a tranwreck here, it's worth quite a few chuckles
at least - it's just nowhere near where it could have been.
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