The hype surrounding this flick was enormous. I was at a horror convention a few weeks ago and it was all about this title. Even here in our local DVD shop they sold this movie for only 8 euro's and full uncut. Be clear, this isn't a remake of Black Devil Doll From Hell. That one was also about a black doll possessed by some spirit and starts doing weird things. And don't think that it is in the tradition of Chucky in Child's Play. No it isn't. This is pure exploitation. Everything is included, blood, chicks and gratuitous nudity. And the last part is available in such a way that it is more erotic than exploitation. The acting is way below zero but don't be bothered, the director never made this flick to became a hit, but it surely will become a cult hit. The black doll walks around only to doing his stuff with the girls, afterwards he kill them or is doing necrophilia. let's say that the first part is all about naked chicks. All shown full frontal but how, they shown their tits to each other for no reason, just like, hey, you have beautiful ones, yes I know do you want to see them, yes okay, would you like to see mine. Big fun. The last part the red stuff starts flowing and in cheap effects but slightly gory. And then 10 minutes before the end the credits starts rolling, I thought, o no, not ten minutes of that crap, but keep watching, there is fun included. Anyway, never take this film seriously. Just watch it as it is, pure exploitation entertainment.
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trashgang23 November 2009
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lastliberal9 September 2010I have been seeing promos and clips of this film for months, so you can imagine how excited I was to finally get to see it. This was going to be way better than all those Chucky movies.
This movie is the very definition of blaxploitation. Every stereotype you can imagine is in here.
In addition every sexual act that you can imagine is in here too. I won't list them, but your perversion has to be included.
The blood flows freely after Devil Doll is through with the women, and in one case, with the man.
The bulk of the blood and all the gore was saved for the ending, which was so over the top I watched with my mouth wide open. -
StevePulaski10 February 2014Black Devil Doll is a nasty little picture, one with no apparent moral compass and the desire to mix the elements and aesthetics of blaxploitation films of the 1970's while loosely following the premise of the Child's Play series and making a priority out of including numerous scenes of doll-on-human sexual intercourse.
The film is inspired by the 1984 film of the same name just with "from Hell" added to the end of the title so we know exactly where this absurd little character once resided. This film's director, Jonathan Louis Lewis, clearly has admiration and a love for the films of the blaxploitation genre, a genre which was largely responsible for hiring young and old black talent in the 1970's to headline such inane pictures as Blacula and Black Dynamite. Lewis, however, creates a film that, while easy to admire for its devotion to such a quirky chapter in cinema's history, is hard to watch and incredibly uncomfortable to sit through, even in its barely-cinematic state of sixty-three minutes.
The main issue is with the approach Lewis chooses to take, which is seemingly to cater to the people who love to watch two foot tall wooden dolls have sex with full-grown women, with the camera, of course, focused on their voluptuous figures. This gets tedious really quickly, especially when the film's one-note joke isn't overplayed but severely underplayed once its intentions become clear. The film is a horror film, like many blaxploitation films were, but it takes so long to build to its horror elements and scenes of violence and gore that we've already laughed so much to even be ready for the horror elements. When they come, it's the most awkward "oh yeah" moment, after we just watched a black puppet have hardcore sex with several different women.
The film's slender story involves Heather (Heather Murphy), a young teen with a bulging bust in a cleavage-bearing top, who is bored one day and decides to remedy her boredom by screwing about with an Ouija board. Heather's antics come back to bite her when the Ouija Board brings her doll to life in the form of a recently deceased serial killer who murdered fifteen Caucasian women before raping them. Now, Heather meets the "black devil doll," falls in love with it, has sex with it numerous times, and so forth.
The second act takes a wee bit of a darker turn, with Heather inviting numerous friends over for an afternoon of fun and drinks but not before the doll can violently assault and have sex with each one.
Films like Black Devil Doll take the very principles of what film criticism was erected off of and shred them so they're unrecognizable. How to rate a film like this effectively is a mystery to me. While the film technically does what it sets out to do, that doesn't mean I had a grand time watching it. The film is so bogged down in dirty-mindedness, gratuitous nudity, graphic, redundant scenes of puppet-on-human sex that do nothing but make one uncomfortable, and then gore and violence to conclude the picture that is tacked on in a way that makes it seem unsure of its own direction.
As stated, Lewis clearly has a fondness for old school horror and the blaxploitation genre. Because of that, I hope he chooses to exercise it again at a later date. This is a picture that would've worked as a short rather than a medium-length film. Better yet, it would've worked best as a daydream.
Starring: Heather Murphy. Voiced by: Martin Boone. Directed by: Jonathan Louis Lewis. -
Scarecrow-8827 September 2010The soul of an executed serial killer invades a puppet thanks to a Ouija board, becoming the lover of it's owner, commanding her to bring him fresh meat to sexually molest(mostly after he kills them, including her former boyfriend who he ass rapes, a white man who talks gansta). If you want to hear a doll made up to look like a 70's crack dealer spouting foul language, attacking skanky giant fake breasted hard core porn actresses with such weapons as a skillet, metal baseball bat, and electrocution via appliance in bathtub water, then BLACK DEVIL DOLL is perfect entertainment for you. I'd prefer to spend my time elsewhere. Seeing a puppet strangle a full grown man with a small piece of rope is just embarrassing and silly beyond all comprehension. Purposely in bad taste, we get scenes of the black doll sniffing coke, orally pleasuring itself with dead female victims after beating them to a pulp, tossing profane quips with that creepy ventriloquist dummy smile. There's definitely a midnight movie crowd who will eat this up, but others will want to skip it altogether. I imagine "bitches riding puppet cock" and black devil doll receiving a "golden shower"(finishing her off afterwards with a vicious throat slashing that engulfs the carpet with a giant pool of blood)will appeal to the niche market and repulse everyone else. I will give it 2/10 for the amusing scene where brains are splattered across a Patrick McDreamy Dempsey poster. One major asset is that it's only a little over 60 minutes so despite wasting your time, it's over quickly.
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Worst "film" ever made. Unless you're on a self-torturing adventure to watch the crappiest "movies" ever made, (which in this case would take the cake), please, please spare yourself the torment.
Basically, this is a crappy blacksploitation rip-off of Child's Play. Only, instead of the classic horror character of Chucky, this film is centered around a racist, black womanizing doll who has a sick, twisted compulsion to have sex with the nastiest looking white chicks, before killing them.
An episode of Barney the Dinosaur has more genius to its writing than this crapfest. The "comedy" is bottom of the barrel, racist nonsense. It's repetitiveness is more painful than drilling through your own head. The "acting" is the worst I've ever seen. You'd be more likely to find better actors simply asking random people on the street to read the lines from the script. The camera-work sucks, the "directing" is awful, and the "special effects" stink. Everything about this "movie" sucks.
I don't care how small this "film's" budget was. There's simply no excuse for such mediocrity. Clerks, Eraserhead, and Paranormal Activity are three films that were made with roughly equal budgets. And those can actually be called films, unlike this pile of garbage.
It kills me that I have to even give this a 1 out of 10, because a 1 is a far too-generous rating for this crap. -
locohombre8013 November 2009This was another film I was on the fence about. It grabbed the midnight slot at the Fangoria Festival which was appropriate. There's nothing mainstream about this movie, even though the plot was stolen from the Chucky series.
The "twist" is that it's a black radical, serial killer who gets reincarnated as a dummy. The puppet struts around talking ridiculous jive lingo. He assaults and tortures a lot of naked white actresses. There's even an Ouija board explanation thrown in for good measure.
It's obviously intended to be outrageous and offensive. No one mistook this for a serious horror flick. BDD was even genuinely hilarious at times. I've got to admit that I was a little troubled by the fact that it seemed to reinforce so many negative stereotypes. As d-lewis points out in his review, there's a fine line between spoofing racial stereotypes and feeding into them, especially when you're as white as the filmmakers who manned BDD's Fangoria table. -
d-lewis47626 October 2009For some time I had to think about this movie. It certainly isn't a typical 2/10 home made self-deceived fabrication. After numerous people had praised it, I was certainly beginning to doubt my judgement. It is a movie that describes the rather dubious satisfaction of large busted white women by a sexually adept and stereotypical black doll. If this is an acceptable parody of white attitudes to black people then forgive me. But I honestly imagine that were I black I would be offended and very justifiably so. I can appreciate that in certain regards there is some professionalism that has gone into this racist diatribe but nonetheless....get over your fear that the foreigner will steal your women!
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thetruth19804025 November 2009I finally watched this film and watched it and heres the truth. The movie is a great idea, the script almost had it,the acting was so so bad that I heard they were supposed to act that way...what bad. If they were trying to capture the 70's cult horror movie theme, well back then they got people who were actors, trying to be actors and thats why those films worked! If it was a tribute to those films that is a cool thing to do, but make it your OWN film and not try to capture what worked then will not work now! Getting girls to act bad which I don't think they did cause you can tell they were NOT acting bad, they are just bad! As one reviewer put it to star in this movie just have big you know and willing to have you know what with a puppet acting not necessary! You should have spent money on actors. The movie is just over an hour, but it seem to take forever to end, less would have been better, or have a better plot.Well you did go for laughs to many I think, but you stayed away from the horror/gore and stayed with naked chicks! Teen girls?They all looked like they were in the late 30's to 40's and only the star looked young like early 20's!! White T was he suppose to be young too, he look 40 as well! The film looked as if different camera was used at times, bad angles, and the puppet walked like it had a stick up it's butt they should have learned something from the Chucky movies! The DVD extras were a major let down! There was nothing extra about them! I was so looking forward to 3 NEW Mubia cartoons and one was an Obma cartoon lame! Then the other two were on the beginning on the movie so why have them as extras? Behind the scene photo's there wasn't many seems there was more on the website then on the DVD and not even really cool shots! The Cast commentary was so awful, one or two funny things but it was bad everyone talking over each other no one really talking about the movie so lame to listen to. Mubia's commentary was cool, but after awhile it like enough is enough already. If anything I'd skip the commentaries just not worth it! Chicken Shawn at the end just so bad! I don't know if that was supposed to be in the movie and it was decided to save it for the end credits, or the Chicken Shawn just wanted to be in his movie so they made it and tacked it on at the end. It might have worked better as a surprise extra, in the movie or credits was just bad! The SPFX were alright the DVD menu was beyond amazing!!!! I think all they saw was a chance to make a great movie but the lost their way when getting started on it and they thought get a puppet to you know naked chicks and people would just line up to see and buy it and make big money, sorry with free porn etc on the internet you can see stuff like that all the time for FREE. I give you full kudos for making a film most wont get of their ass to do something like that, so good for them. Just rent this movie first or check more sites for reviews such as Amazon...a very very bad movie it all HYPE!
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mm1palmer11 February 2011Is there any reason this film was made? Was it a contest to make a movie that couldn't interest anybody, even a drunk stoner? There was no acting; good, bad or otherwise.
There was actually an idea that could have resulted in a good comedy-horror film in the vein of Meat Weed Madness or some of the other Troma films. Or a sexploitation film like Seduction Cinema makes. The bad acting, script and effects could have actually been used to make this film a cult movie, but everything in the movie was just a waste of time and money to make.
In fact the only redeeming value to the movie is that it gives credit to the plastic surgeon who I assume did the augmentation on some of the actresses. This is good because now other people will know who to avoid, unless they want a bad augmentation. -
Tromafreak27 April 2010It's all in good fun... Right? No, I don't believe it is. What would be the fun in that, anyway? I don't care who you think you are. I don't care if you think Combat Shock was hilarious. This new and greatly improved Black Devil Doll will grab your sensibilities by the throat and cut it open, and whatever happens after that is your own damn fault. Black Devil Doll is a half homage, half remake of a mind-numbingly awful pile of Z-grade garbage, from the 80's, entitled Black Devil Doll From Hell. A film that, over the years, has gained a bit of a reputation as (arguably) the worst in history. And might I add, a film that has been seen by far too few. but apparently, one day, an aspiring director asked himself a very important question. "What if Black Devil Doll From Hell was a masterpiece?"
Sure, with a little tweaking, here and there. Hire some actual actors. Put some actual money into it. Maybe even cut a few minutes off the opening credits. It could actually turn into something. And what this new Black Devil Doll has turned into will cause a laughing/crying fit, which will know no relief until it's all over. So, a dim-witted chick named Heather messes around with a ouija board, for no particular reason, instantly causing a doll to be possessed by the soul of an executed black-militant (Mubia), who despised white people, and loved raping and slaughtering white women. It's pretty much love at first sight. Although, it might be a short-lived romance, because one woman ain't never enough for this guy, but maybe with a little smooth-talk, Mubia can convince Heather to not only let him cheat on her, but maybe even let him rape and slaughter all her friends... As if she has a choice. Only problem now is just getting her out of the house.
What we have here is simply the most offensive, most outrageous comedy of the past decade. Possibly the most offensive movie since Pink Flamingo's. that's right, I'm a John Waters fan, a Troma fan, and an LBP fan, and now that I've seen Black Devil Doll. I can finally say that I've seen it all. Besides the obvious, Black Devil Doll is also a homage to old Blaxploitation, and Exploitation, in general. I suppose what this film is homaging, and what it actually is, is one in the same. Folks, this is a perfect example of modern Exploitation. For more in future cult classics from this past decade, check out Special Dead, and Sick Girl. If you're smart enough to not take movies seriously, and If you have a sick sense of humor, like someone I know, you will find Black Devil Doll to be positively delightful. And that's a guarantee. 10/10 -
Animator60643211 April 2011When I first heard about this movie, I was expecting a movie up to par with the 1984 "classic"! Sadly this movie has little to do with Chester Novell Turner's movie.
The plot follows a young women (a very busty and attractive one) who is bored and decides to play with wedgie board (spelled wrong). This brings back the soul of a 1960s black panther inside of the doll.
That is basically the plot. The movie it's self very unfunny. The problem is the writer's attempt to be controversial without an real sense of humor. I feel like the movie was written by 13 year olds, especially with all the homophobic humor and nudity. Even if you view this with the notion of it being one of those movies so bad it is good, then you are out of luck. The original film is one of those movies. This is not, because there is not enough bad material to have that mark. It is also surprising slow at some parts.
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WdaBrock1 November 2012I've had this movie for about 2 years and would have posted a review much sooner, but my friends have been borrowing the damned thing for the whole period. It's low-brow, toilet humor, Planet Uranus filth, and I love it for that! A simple plot: a black revolutionary gets executed and a stupid, fat-chested bimbo plays with a Quija board and accidentally plants his soul into the body of a rancid, black ventriloquist doll. Heather Murphy(Heather)plays the bimbo and she falls in love with the foul-mouthed thing, having sex on whatever is available. She thinks its love, Mumbaia(forgive me if I've spelled it wrong) sees a whole lot of sex and murder. He wants to screw and kill everything. I repeat-EVERYTHING! It tasks the poor woman into inviting her friends over for a party, and that's when the true sickness and depravity of the film comes shining through. The girls as 10X dumber than Heather,finding any opportunity to get naked and separated from each other so our hero(?) can have his way with them. The party scene is a rip-off of H.G. Lewis's "Blood Feast 2" and just goes overboard, but you begin to expect it to do that. Any chance for a gross-out and vulgarity is exploited to its fullest. This is a party movie- the one you get your drunk friends rolling on the floor in tears with. It means to be offensive and it delivers. BOY, it delivers! But it does it smart; breaking the 4th wall with humor- check.Bad taste jokes delivered with punch(8 Seconds!)- check. Really witty dialog(What am I supposed to do while you're here with them?- Bitch, I don't know?! Go to McDonalds, eat a Happy Meal!) - check. You even get to see a Whigger in its natural habitat. Nothing Oscar caliber, just dirty snickering fun! If you start watching it with low expectations, you'll really enjoy it. I recommend the DVD, which you really can't take your eyes off of for a second without missing something; credits included!
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pikhal0202 December 2009This briskly paced film features a misogynist racist black ventriloquist doll that f**ks, sucks and murders a series of big b(.)(.)bed California style p0rn0 sluts (there is even an end credit for a breast augmentation doctor!). And not necessarily in that order. To enjoy this movie, you must reach down deep to find and embrace your own inner misogynist racist black ventriloquist doll. If you don't think you have one, you are deluding yourself. Yes, you ladies have your own doll too, it's just a little deeper down in your subconscious. If you positively refuse to acknowledge your inner darkness, you can at least watch in awe at the depths that the modern male psyche can sink to. Nothing about this movie suggests that uptight moral and upstanding citizens should be renting it, but I have all the confidence in the world that your zest for self-righteous indignation will overcome the obviousness that this movie was not made for you. I look forward to reading your hilariously overwrought 1 star reviews. But for freaks like me, BLACK DEVIL DOLL could not have arrived too soon.
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petear-brown3 December 2009This is low budget exploitation/horror. If the mere though of such movies sends you running for the safety of the nearest Hugh Grant love fest then don't even look at the cover. Certainly don't waste time watching it and then blogging your absolute outrage and disgust whilst throwing out totally unfounded accusations of racism. All classic horror has a humour element (rubbish shark in Zombie Flesh Eaters, Grandad with the hammer in Chainsaw Massacre) and since the 80's if it hasn't got scantily clad women in it then it ain't a horror film (ok, unless its porn). So now we've established the guidelines lets look at Black Devil Doll. It is laugh out loud hilarious from the film piracy ad that runs before the movie to the end of the closing credits, the actresses play on their lack of drama school sheen to perfection and whilst the nudity is prominent it isn't gratuitous. And as for Black Devil Doll himself? a horror icon for the 00's is born. Who needs rehashes and remakes when you've got a mutha****in puppet. Buy it now, or better still get someone else to buy it for you for Christmas.
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Black Devil Doll is 100% exploitation. Pure Trash. Pure Fun. But it is extremely low-brow and certainly ain't for everyone as you can see by some of the reviews on here and other sites I have looked up.
I think its a love it or hate it type of film.
One thing I find annoying are the reviewers that complain about the acting. Hello!!! Did you really expect "good" acting from a film about a black puppet that rapes and kills white women? Seriously? Its just not the kind of film you watch for good acting. It is the kind of film you watch if you want to see a black puppet rape, kill, do copious amounts of drugs, cuss like a ghetto superstar, toss salad, smack around some hoes, and spray toxic diarrhea!
But having said that, I think all the ladies did a great job in their rolls and god bless them for going all the way and letting a black puppet eat them out! Black Devil Doll is meant to be "bad" and it wallows in its badness like a pig in sh!t. Anyone expecting anything else from this little film is just stupid.
The film is fast pasted, brilliantly edited, has great music, hilarious, and sick as hell with some of the most off the wall stuff every filmed.
Exploitation fans, do yourself a favor, pick this one up, add it to your collection, its a modern exploitation masterpiece. -
hellbillyrebel24 May 2009The production cost of BLACK DEVIL DOLL breaks down to one puppet, five reasonably priced nude females, one hundred jugs of Karo syrup, miscellaneous pharmaceuticals, and $10,000 in Oakland Fried Chicken. The results pay off like a multi-million-dollar lottery.
The movie opens with black militant Mubia Abul-Jama (Jonathan Lewis) marching down Death Row to be executed for his crimes against Caucasian society. Just as Jama rides the lightning, the bored and busty Heather (Heather Murphy) unwittingly transports his soul into the body of a ventriloquist's dummy during a desultory Ouija board séance.
Mubia wastes no time demonstrating his miniature pimp hand. Naturally, Heather falls in love; the busty beauty dumps her wannabe rapper boyfriend White-T and submits to the doll's sexual hunger. Roll the puppet romance montage.
But this puppet needs some strange. Some trim. Some fresh white tail. While White-T weeps in Wigger angst, Mubia commands Heather to round up her bimbo girlfriends.
What follows is a relentless, abusive, and uproarious onslaught of rape, misogyny, mutilation, mayonnaise, mass murder, sodomy, toilet humor and racially charged puppet high-jinks. The movie's many freak-out sequences were filmed in Negroscope, a patented process which visualizes the puppet's psychosis in a multi-layered, psychedelic blur of Black History Month flashbacks.
From the puppet's first demonic eyeball-roll to the mind-melting, sphincter-shattering climax, BLACK DEVIL DOLL delivers the total package to your door...and says "F**K YOU!" when you sign for it. Eruptions of H.G. Lewis-style gore, Russ Meyer-like breasts, graphic necrophilia, salad-tossing, and the funniest prison-rape joke in recent memory are just a few highlights; the actors rightly allow the wooden doll to upstage them, and the original soundtrack by Giallo's Flame completes the atmosphere.
During the film's world premiere at L.A.'s New Beverly Cinema, an emcee hurled over-sized black dildos into the sold-out crowd while director Jonathan Lewis smiled serenely. The audience went wild.
Eldridge Cleaver is still on ice, but the Black Devil Doll is on fire. Long may his magic chocolate wand wave, and deep may he thrust into your honky soul! -
jason_duron2 December 2009On the night of murderous black militant Mubia Abul-Jama's execution, ditsy chunky (but decently hot) chick Heather Murphy resurrects Abul-Jama's soul via her Ouija board which transports into a nearby ventriloquist doll. It doesn't take long before jive-talking, badly stereotyped Black Devil Doll whips his Black Devil Dick out and proceeds to tap that Heather booty several times over before he convinces her to call all of her hot, slutty, cracker friends over so he can get further satisfaction. Sure enough, her hot, slutty, cracker friends (Christine Svendsen, Erika Branich, Precious Cox, and Natasha Talonz) come over and engage in ALL kinds of dirty, sexual shenanigans and tomfoolery that has BDD getting all kinds of horny. When Heather leaves, the rape and murder fest beings as BDD systematically kills and rapes (or rapes and kills) each women, while Heather's out eating a bunch of big macs. Black Devil Doll has only one goal in mind, which is to offend and titillate everyone and anyone who watches this. This film is so over-the-top racist and sexist that it's bound to upset anyone who offends easily and is completely dumbass enough to watch this movie. As a fan of offensive material, I could not get enough of this movie. I laughed almost the whole way through it. Let's not forget the 5 beautiful women (especially Branich, Cox and Talonz) who are pretty much consistently naked throughout the entire movie. Talonz sex scene with BDD easily rivals the marionette sex scene of Team American in its over-the-top, almost hardcore (almost) pornographic intentions. Black Devil Doll is what independent cinema wet dreams are made of. I absolutely loved this hot mess!
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whammy66614 June 2009Ahh where do I begin? I had been following this movie for probably over a year, and since I first saw the hilarious looking trailer, I had put it at the top of my list with movies to see, along with Bad Biology. And I remember that the DVD was supposed to be released last year, and I was disappointed to find that they delayed the release, but I am happy because I got to experience Black Devil Doll on the big screen, in a theater, the way it should be seen. And it was more than worth the wait. Trust me. This movie is like no other film you have seen in your life, trust me. And you will never see a film like this again. And that is more than a good thing. This film is definitely not for the easily offended, not for the faint of heart, not for those who are easily grossed out, and you get the idea. Full of nudity, violence, gore, and more awesomeness, this must be the most fun I have had in a theater since I saw Poultrygeist. There are scenes that will make you scream OH MY GOD, scenes that will make you laugh your butt off, and scenes that are just plain wrong. It all adds up to one hilarious fun time. I must also add that the score from Giallos Flame is excellent, 70's style music. From the credits, I knew I was in the presence of greatness. The black devil doll is one of the most entertaining characters in film history, and will be sure to make you laugh. Whether you like the movie or not, you will be entertained. Just know what you are in for. It is sick, twisted, funny, gross, and so wrong, but oh, so right. I really wish there were more movies like this. It screams sequel!
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Wow, what a fun movie! I would recommend this to anyone who is tired of the usual crap movies that are coming out of Hollywood. One of the most realistic movies that you will ever see, except for the possessed devil doll part. Rotten Cotton dot com is a great site to check for cool t-shirts. Hot girls, showing there titties how can you go wrong with such a movie, and don't forget to order a T-Shirt from Rottencotton.com as rotten cotton.com is the best place to order tshirts from. You won't get t-shirts that fade and are not worth a crap. There are lots of funny parts, like when the puppet is having having sex with girls out the back of Shaun's house. Too bad that Blackest HEart media is not around, otherwise you could watch lots of videos, easily orderable from there site.
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artpf27 September 2013This is one of the most original and perfect exploitation films ever made.
Black rapist of multiple white chicks is executed and comes back as a black Jerry Mahonny puppet.
Isn't that enough?
OMG! This movie is one original and funny 75 minutes.
Clearly X rated, but so good. And Refreshing.
Our dead and resurrected black puppet goes through a plethora of white hos before meeting his end.
Puh-lenty of topless babes.
So funny