Re-Penetrator

Re-Penetrator (2004)

** (out of 4)

This Burning Angel production is obviously a spoof of the cult classic horror film RE-ANIMATOR. In the film Tommy Pistol plays the scientist who brings a corpse (Joanna Angel) back to life so that they can have non-stop sex. This film clocks in at just 22-minutes and it's really hard to judge this thing or take it too serious for that matter. Obviously these alt-porn films aren't going to be for everyone as many adult film fans are just going to be turned off by the majority of what they see here and I'm sure some horror fans probably aren't going to like it either. With that said, there's obviously a very big market out there for films like this so someone is watching them. This film was certainly well-made as it at least looked very professional even though I'm sure the budget was low. I'd also add that the movie has some extremely good cinematography that also stands out. As far as the sex scenes go, I will freely admit that this type of thing just wasn't very erotic to me and it's more of something you'd show your friends on a drunken party night. I say that because watching a woman spit goo and blood all over a guy while doing her thing just wasn't my thing. It's too sick to be erotic but the funny thing is that it features more gore than a lot of the horror movies of today.

Inspired by Re-Animator this is a short hard core porno movie with more gore and blood than your average slasher. Totally gross, would probably be the modern phrase best apt for this but it certainly is a little different. At times it resembles those live action happenings of the late 60's with Otto Meurle, and now and again even the Japanese Guinea Pig films. The big surprise is that this is just 22 minutes and after the Re-Animator look beginning the two get down to some decent sex routines BUT with blood spurting all the time. More than a little disconcerting at first, especially with the blow job when there seems to be so much blood about, we gradually just about get used to the unusual mix of hard core sex and blood and it remains a turn on despite everything, party due to the obvious enthusiasm of the participants. As well as the aforementioned 'Director's Cut' there is a tighter 11 minutes 'Screening Cut' and a fair amount of extras including interesting commentaries, one from the two 'actors' and one from director and camera man. Both commentaries accompany the 'Director's Cut'.

After a mad scientist brings a young woman back to life, she begs him for sexual pleasure. The scientist is more than happy to help out his new zombie creation.

This short film (coming in at only around 22 minutes) is brought to us by Doug Sakmann, a man with a history of working for Troma and later producing the works of Chris Seaver ("Filthy McNasty"). When I first heard of this film, I didn't know who Doug Sakmann was. Once I did a bare minimum of background checking, this made a whole new world of sense.

Does the world need zombie porn? I think my friend Trixie would give you an emphatic "yes" for this question. After kiddie porn (gross), bestiality porn (gross) and even furniture porn (amusing) most people felt that the market was saturated and the ideas were out. But then "zombie porn" came along... and this film was born. I have no doubt we will be seeing more of its kind in the coming years (especially with zombies quickly growing in popularity).

Now, the plot is pretty thin. The "Re-Animator" portion only lasts about two minutes. After that, it's just two people going at it... if a zombie is a "person" (any lawyers want to debate this?) I don't know how I feel about blood and oral sex. I love blood in my movies and who doesn't love oral sex? But there's something about oral sex that includes oozing, spraying blood that just isn't very attractive to me (although, like anything else, you could probably create a link in your mind that would make this a turn-on).

Is there a future for horror porn besides just zombies? I think this is a yes. We already had "Anal Hellraiser" (which I haven't seen) and Doug Sakmann has since made "The XXXorcist". If the new film is successful (and it looks better than this one based on the trailer) we might see an endless series of Sakmann creations. With no more creativity in porn, the dead of Sakmann's mind will walk the earth...

In conclusion: this is a necessary oddity. If Doug Sakmann had not made this, you can bet your bottom dollar someone else would have in a year or two. And I can't think of anyone else I'd rather have done this (although I don't really know anyone in the porn industry, so I'm not the one to ask). Fans of horror and bizarre porn will get a kick out of this, everyone else will either not get the beauty of it or simply want to vomit like my friend Shannon... don't be a Shannon, embrace the coming zombie overlords.