A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is a movie about a giant piece of poo that kills people. Get them giggles out now.You get the feeling going into "Monsturd" that the crew knew exactly what the heck they were making. The film doesn't take itself seriously at all, and feels more like a satire of monster films than one trying to be a serious one. You have the law enforcement officer with a bitter family past, you have the government official who serves also as the film's love interest, you have the evil scientist, you have the big even that of course CAN'T be postponed because reasons...if you've seen it in a monster movie, you'll find it in here. The only difference is, instead of a giant shark or a giant dinosaur, this happens to be a giant piece of poop. As you can imagine, poop jokes abound. The name of the town is Butte County (yeah yeah, they pronounce it "bewt," but c'mon). The name of the convict that turns into the monster is Jack Schmidt (think about it...think about it...). Thankfully, the entire movie isn't just one giant poop joke, and when they actually do make poop jokes, it doesn't feel as forced as it could have been. Let me put it this way: Happy Madison films only WISH they could do poop jokes as funny as this.You also get the feeling that most of this movie was filmed over the course of a weekend. Some sequences are a bit awkwardly edited, as if they were filmed at different times and edited together later (eg., the interrogation of the little girl). The special effects are low budget, although the monster itself is pretty impressive as far as costumes go. The acting overall is terrible, and it comes across like every scene was done in one take. The only exceptions might be Dan West and Rick Popko as Deputies Dan and Rick respectively: seriously, almost every scene with these guys is hilarious, and their delivery is great. The best scene in the whole movie has them taking out a ventriloquist dummy as part of an anti-drug campaign for kids, and turning it into a case of police brutality. There are some other scenes obviously played for laughs, including one where the evil scientist tries to summon the poop monster by making fart sounds (no, really, it's a lot funnier than it sounds, trust me).A lot of times these low-budget horror comedies are duds, but this one was actually pretty enjoyable. It's hard for me to rate it properly, but it definitely is worth at least one viewing if you're into this kind of stuff.

Monsturd is set in Butte County, California where convicted serial killer Jack Schmidt (Brad Dosland) has just escaped from 'Hardell Maximum Security Prison', cut to 'FBI Field Office Sacremento' where agent Susan Hannigan (Beth West) is told to fly out to Butte County & work with Sheriff Tom Duncan (Paul Weiner) in the apprehension of Schmidt. Meanwhile evil genetic 'Dutech' scientist Dr. Stern (Dan Burr) has disposed of his latest failed experiment down the County's sewer system so when Schmidt hides in the sewers & accidentally falls into a vat of this chemical waste it comes as no surprise that he transforms, his genes & the poo in the sewers are all mixed together & mutated by the chemical which creates the Monsturd, a creature made totally out of human poo. Soon after a spate of incidents are reported in which people are killed on their toilets alerts the Sheriff & together with Susan quickly figure out what's going on. They join forces to destroy the Monsturd although their task isn't help by the towns annual Chilli Cook Off which will force people to use the toilet & literally become sitting ducks(!), will the Monsturd be stopped in time...Written, directed & starring Rick Popko & Dan West Monsturd is a unique film, probably. Whether you like Monsturd will depend on your sense of humour I would guess, if you like juvenile tasteless toilet humour Monsturd is for you, if not then it most certainly isn't & it's as simple & straight forward as that. Personally I have that childish mentality & immature sense of humour which meant that I thought Monsturd was really funny in parts as there are plenty of poo jokes & double entendres, from being set in Butte County to someone trying to trap the Monsturd using peanuts, corn & farting noises as bait along with people dressed in diapers as armour & devising a plan to unleash a million flies onto the Monsturd so they will eat him! Yes folks this is quality & highly intellectual stuff all the way! Monsturd moves along at a nice pace & at only 80 odd minutes long it doesn't outstay it's welcome & thankfully never takes itself seriously. As a whole the film is very silly & doesn't have much of a story, the character's are basic as is the dialogue which is littered with swearing but sometimes you need to hold your hands up & say even though a film has no real artistic or social merit it sure as hell is funny & entertaining & I'd say Monsturd fits that bill perfectly. I liked it, so sue me.Directors Popko & West give themselves all the best lines as the two bumbling deputies & considering the budget this had I thought they did a pretty decent job overall. In one way I was disappointed that the film was actually more restrained than I would have liked, they really should have piled on the gross humour, fart gags & poo jokes, while they are here there not as offencive as you might think. The only gore is when some mutilated body parts are discovered complete with wriggling maggot's & worms. The Monsturd itself looks rather silly & a bit too, erm, solid if you know what I mean. Apparently the original title for this was Number 2 Part 1 which I think is quite funny in itself, toilet humour don't you just love it?With a supposed budget of about $3,000 the filmmakers did absolute wonders & to it's credit it is at least competent, the locations are good & it looks alright. The acting isn't up to much but I've seen a lot worse in far bigger budget films.Monsturd definitely isn't a film for everyone, of that there is no doubt but I found it perfectly good, childish, funny, gross out entertainment that brought a smile to my face on more than a few occasions. I simply have to mention the closing theme song as it's absolutely hilarious & worth an extra star on it's own, here's a quick sample...'I'm here to warn you although it must seem absurd, to be aware of a giant Monsturd...' 'When the s*it goes down he may be in your town, don't get caught with your pants down...' 'Don't be a fool don't drop the kids at the pool, oh yeah he's one cruel stool...' 'Number two he does what dodo's do...' Number two he smells like poo...' 'Silent but deadly you'd better beware, he might just be in your underwear...'Total class, what more needs to be said? The best killer poo film ever, period.

I love movies, I do, I love even really dastardly bad ones. But this one, was one of those very few, that are so bad you can't even laugh at their stench (pun intended). This is House Of The Dead bad. I go into a movie called Monsturd and yeah expect a really bad movie, but it could have at least been a bad movie that had excellent acting, or a bad movie that had good camera angles. This movie had not even one saving factor. Yeah, it made me laugh that the moronic prison guards were obviously fooled by a mop with a fake painted doll under it. I haven't seen this in a while so if I'm incorrect about some of the detail there I'm sorry, it's not like it would matter. Nothing can possibly make this movie worse than it is. The sound is terrible, even Cannibal The Musical rivals it (I like that movie, but the sound is still bad) . Again, showing that there isn't even one saving grace for this movie to be near watchable. I love offensive movies, I really do, I like The Toxic Avenger, and Class Of Nukem High, because they are A class stink fests but at least they are shot semi-well. Anybody could shoot a movie like this with their dad's old hand-held camera from the 60's. It might have even saved it if it were black and white, so you could avoid the fact that nothing was done to even give it art direction. Ever seen the movie Slashers? That movie was so bad you could laugh, this movie takes you right into the land of the not even stupid enough to be funny.

This is a really, really good movie about a serial killer turning into a big turd and killing people. Basically, what we got here is the Titanic of b-movies, since there actually seems to be lots of effort put into a film that probably will be viewed by .000000000000000000000000000000000001% of the world's population. I mean, there is this really awesome South Park parody, there are turds flung everywhere, there are hilarious scenes of flies eating turds. I dunno why there are so many negative reviews about this; it's juvenile humor, but it's AMAZINGLY well-done juvenile humor.There is HORRIBLE acting and HORRIBLE characters and HORRIBLE concept, but it's all amazingly entertaining. Hidden in here are many jokes and memorable scenes, such as the little girl running away from a guy who just drew a picture of a turd and another scene where a woman is yelling at a man who is screaming as he's being attacked by the turd monster. She says something to the effect of, "I told you to clean the bathroom, not USE IT!!!!" Hahahaha... amazing. Get this film.