Bad Biology (2008) **1/2

I was hoping that I'd like Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology (2008) more on a second viewing, but I felt about the same. While it's clearly in the director's wheelhouse, there's a certain something, tonally, present in his other films—even when dealing with purposely exploitative, potentially offensive, subject matter—that is missing in BB. Henenlotter has always had a style similar to Troma films, but there is a certain je ne sais quoi that sets his work apart. Here, however, it just feels like Troma (and I like Troma just fine). Charlee Danielson gives a good performance though (there's a particularly funny and impressive scene where she has great dialogue delivery while bashing a dude's head in with a lamp) and the effects by longtime Henenlotter collaborator Gabriel Bartalos are really fun.

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