
Date: 4/23/2020
Viewed: Amazon Prime Rental
First Viewing
Note: I hear nothing but awful things about this movie, but I was still curious to check it out. The movie is based on the Verotik comics and I remember reading some of them a very long time ago. After renting the movie from Amazon Prime, I finally watch this movie and it was not very good. This movie was bad, but I thought it was going to be beyond awful. To be honest, I've seen a lot of big-budget mainstream Hollywood movies worse than this movie. The movie has terrible acting, bad writing, and poor special effects, but there is a so bad its good charm to this movie.
I don't think this is the worst movie ever because I was able to find enjoyment out of this movie and there were no expectations for it. With a low-budget direct to video/streaming movie, you know what you are getting into than a big-budget bad movie from Hollywood. With bad big-budget mainstream movies, you expect something noteworthy because people spend millions of dollars making a movie and you pay $10 ticket to see it on the big screen. The movie has three stories and probably only one of them is decent.
Here are the three stories in this movie:
The Albino Spider of Dajette - This segment is so strange because it makes no sense. You have a woman with eyeballs on her breast and the movie does not explain why. I'm pretty sure the comic explains it, but the movie does not. This segment did remind me of Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) with a demon being involved with someone sleeping. The six-arm demon does have a cool design, but the makeup and costume for the demon are not very good. I find myself laughing at how terrible the acting in this segment was because it felt like no one was trying to act. The worst part about this segment was it felt super rushed and the ending was so predictable.
Change of Face - This segment is the best one and could have been good. I like the concept of the story in this segment because I like the idea of a woman being obsessed with her inner beauty. Sadly, it was not very well executed due to poor writing. The police officers in this segment are laughable because they are so stupid. These police officers make Chief Clancy Wiggum from The Simpsons look like a genius in comparison. Change of Face is still the best and most entertaining of the three segments which is not saying much.
Drukija Contessa of Blood - This segment was the worst out of the three because it was so boring. This segment made me feel like that I was watching a low-budget version of Game of Thrones and the story went nowhere. I don't even understand what the story was even about in this segment to be honest. You have an evil woman bathing herself in blood after killing people and that's mostly it.
Overall, Verotika is a bad movie, but I do recommend it for a bad movie night with friends. If you are going to watch this movie, rent it first.