Director – Bill Zebub (Night on Elmo’s Street, Indie Director)
Starring – Erin Brown (The New York Butcher, Splatter Beach), Kayla Browne, and Rachel Crow (The Lesser Evil, Holocaust Cannibal)
Release Date – 2016
Rating – 2/5
Tagline – “In this story, women are the ones who say “don’t use your teeth!”
Very few indie filmmakers can say they’ve had a career like Bill Zebub. Zebub has been slinging blasphemous indie films for almost 15 years with films like Antfarm Dickhole, Jesus Christ: Serial Rapist, and Zombiechristunder his belt. I have been collecting his films for sometime now but I have only seen a few of them.
A few years back Wild Eye sent me his film Dolla Morte and not long after MVD sent meIndie Director to review. Indie Directoris essential to any fan of indie cinema. The film is brilliant and shows the struggles real indie filmmakers go through when trying to complete a project. I tried to check out other Zebub films after that but never had the time to watch them just for fun.
Several months ago Zebub started sharing news of his newest film Dickshark which starred Erin Brown who is known around the horror community as Misty Mundae. I ran into Zebub at Cinema Wasteland in April and I was able to grab a copy from him. I was hellbent on reviewing it and thought it would be great to pair with my Evil Bong marathon.
**Spoiler Alert**The film begins with a young man who is using an experimental cream for male enhancement. It turns his dick into a clay like material so he shapes it into a sharp to fuck his woman with. However, his wiener comes to life and bites his finger. His woman freaks out and shoots him. He dies and she cuts his cock off and flushes it down the drain. The thing grows and continues to stalk women who are in or around water and sexually violates them. The cream happens to be his roommates science experiment and is at risk of falling into the wrong hands. He must stop the shark and a competitor from stealing his new, secret formula.**Spoiler Alert**
Bill Zebub is not a stranger to religion, race, or politics. His films typically openly attack all three topics resulting in some great satirical fun. The last few years has saw a departure of this and Zebub has attempted to shock and not offend. Dickshark is a funny film that would have shocked and could have worked as a short but the joke runs it’s course well before the 2 and a half hour mark.
The acting in this one is rough even by indie standards. Erin Brown was decent but she didn’t have much to work with considering how poorly her character was written. Bill Zebub was funny, as always, but his dialogue was not that great. He mostly spits out one liners and puns while the other person he shares screen with tries to carry on an actual conversation. The remainder of the cast is just eye candy. They are beautiful women who get nude and stay that way throughout the scene. Movie may have not been that entertaining but the scenes were beautiful to look at.
The story for this one is fun and sleazy but is not enough to hold the viewer’s attention for 2 and a half hours. The film is full of dialogue that is rather boring and very repetitive. A lot of the scenes needed to be trimmed down to make the story more streamline. Also, a few of the scenes felt like they were added in just to get those particular cast members in the film. This film needs to be heavily edited. As for that, the story is rather funny and ridiculous. The film would be my kind of movie if it was edited better and the fat was trimmed.
Finally, those of you wanting blood shed will be very disappointed. The film has some practical effects but they are not that well done. The cock shark prosthetic shows bubbles where the mold settled and the giant shark is falling apart during the scenes its in. The effects are no budget quality but I have seen better no budget effects in several other films before.
Overall, Dickshark is not the film I was expecting. I was wanting a ridiculous films about a killer dick shaped like a shar but what I got was an amateur stand up skit in between nude women getting attacked by latex prosthetics. I was not a fan of this film in the way it’s set up.
