For the week of July 11, 2001
He's the kind of guy who, in the middle of shooting a gorgeous blonde nude in the shower, pans over to a picture of Jesus on the wall and overdubs it with five seconds of the "Hallelujah Chorus."
And Lou Vockell is the kind of guy who puts on a dress and a bright red fright wig for his cameo as the mayor of Cincinnati, Edwina Wood, who has "a slight facial hair problem." (That would be Lou's own beard and mustache.)
Fortunately, Lou is also the kind of guy who hears beautiful B-movie models and makes sure they take their clothes off every five minutes. The result is "KILLER SEX QUEENS FROM CYBERSPACE," an over-the-top parody of the X-rated video-store wars in Cincinnati that features not only Larry Flynt, playing "Big Larry," the owner of G-Spot Video, but that famous Cincinnati ex- mayor, Jerry Springer himself.
Living in Cincinnati almost requires a sense of humor, since
it's the home of more moralizing anti-censorship, anti-speech
crusades than any other metropolis, and obviously Vockell
relishes his role as the fly in Proctor and Gamble's brightly-
packaged ointment. He never misses a chance to jibe his hometown,
and he even pays the ultimate compliment by a low-budget
filmmaker. He reaches into his pocket for a little special-
effects money so he can blow up a prominent downtown building.
Anyhoo, this is the story of Prometheus Software, a diabolical Cincinnati firm that has created Virtually Integrated Cybernetic Total Interactivity Models (V.I.C.T.I.M.), which amounts to sexy nekkid gals on CD Rom that climb down off the screen, sex you up, transform into a laughing skull-head, and electrocute your hiney. Sure we've seen this story before, but have we seen it with not one but two white-trash child-abuse subplots involving fat women? I think not.
Three dead bodies. Thirty breasts. Crossing-guard demolition. Aardvarking. One gratuitous shower. Multiple nekkid dancing. Multiple vodka-guzzling. Cyber-electrocution, with cheesy laughing skull head. Fairly disgusting "policeman's lubricant" scene. Even more disgusting capitalist-in-the-john scene. One live birth. Exploding skull. Video Fu. Fist Fu. Putting Fu. White-trash talk-TV fan punch-out Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Lorissa McComas and her two enormous talents, as the stripping red-heeled Killer Sex Queen from Cyberspace who says "I'm always here for you, baby"; Michelle Monroe as the hot teddy-bear-hugging video-store manager in tight jeans who can do her nails while having sex, for saying "These (pointing to her chest) were not designed to flip burgers!"; Pat Van Voght as the oversexed slacker boyfriend, for saying "Wow! Computerized hookers!"; Marcus Franklin, as the evil industrialist, for saying "It can fry your motherboard" and "Quite frankly, it's the safest sex you can buy"; Jeff Weldy, as the dumb-as-a-box-of-rocks son of the owner, for saying "Come take a ride on the Lou-Lou Express"; and Lou Vockell, for writing, directing, dressing up like a really ugly woman, and doing it the Cincinnati way.
Three stars. Joe Bob says check it out.
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