The Calistra Zipper Story

Stupid moron that thinks his styrofoam and straw stuffed clothes are real releases a video based on his "daughter'.. a stupid waste of time featuring an unfunny mentally defective yahoo. I guess the next video will feature this MAROON throwing a birthday party, a scores party, and a deflowering of his "daughter".. It actually makes you want to kick his ass for wasting your time. If you are hard up for entertainment.. then go rent a handful of troma films.. any of which would be academy award winners when compared to this ignorant, aggravating, inane use of a camera and time. The only redeeming factor is that it is one of a kind.

This is a very engaging and satirical take on our need to be horrified. Done with the straight-faced demon-ism of a master magician. Delightful, scary, laced with the double-vision of Dali. Is it hoax or insight or BOTH? Calman has created a dilemma, a crime which is not against the law--did you know you CAN stuff your kin after death? The brilliant coup of the piece is that you are made to root for the very scam you can't believe. The overall tone and flash is cut from the cloth of "Crime of the Century" scandals of the 30's in Palm Beach or Chicago. Calman makes you think you are a first-hand witness and, like getting wet on a Thunder Mountain ride, you feel thrillingly polluted as this appalling romp clings to your clothing and soul long after the tale is told. I'll tell you this: you can't keep a straight face. It's that good.

Calistra Zipper is a hoot. Craig Calman uses hyper-excited editing and a sensational mockumentary style to expand the 2000 radio encounter between Calistra, her devoted if deranged dad, and Howard Stern into a galloping orgy of family discord and dysfunction, all in the service of Anthony's personal crusade in behalf of Humanistic Taxidermy. Are cemeteries your friends or your enemies? Anthony Zipper wants you to ponder the question long and hard, as does Calistra's surviving, placard-wielding, serial-arsonist brother. If director-star Calman has his way, you will never again be quite so certain what to do with your newly dead loved ones.