Director – Jarno Mahlberg (The Haunted Movie Collection Chapter II, October Rust)
Starring – Jamie Deetz (Ho-Gun Ass-As In: The Salmon of Death, Ex Coffee), Charles Pinion (Debbie Does Damnation, Red Spirit Lake), and Dave Neabore (Zig and Zag’s Dirty Deeds)
Release Date – 2024
Rating – 3/5
I’ve always been a sucker for little monster movies. I remember snagging the Puppet Master flicks along with Leprechaun, Ghoulies, and any other random tape I could find at my local video store. I fucking love these kind of movies so when I come across one in the wild I have to check it out.
Several years ago I was browsing social media when I came across a few posts for the shorts Shitters and Return of the Shitters. Both were great films that I wished had more to them instead of being just shorts. Fast forward a few years and director Jarno Mahlberg has released yet another short in the Shitters saga titled Revenge of Shitters. He was kind enough to send a link to the film my way and I would like to take a moment to thank him for that!
**Spoiler Alert** The film takes place several years in the future. The world is a wasteland and a group of survivors are scavenging for supplies while the shitters, and their giant shit leader, works together to round up the surviving humans so they can force them to poop so they increase their numbers. **Spoiler Alert**
The Revenge of Shitters is not the direction I was expecting the series to go but I am here for it. I don’t want to compare it to Mad Max because that is the go to apocalyptic film that everything get’s compared to but this is Ghoulies meets Mad Max in every good way possible.
The acting in this one fits the film very well. The cast is extremely small and everyone works well together but the short is not long enough for the viewer to really see what the cast is truly made of in that regard.
The story for this one picks up many years after the first two films and doesn’t really have the humor those films had. Instead, it makes up for the lack of humor with story development and bleak settings to fit the wasteland motif. It’s still extremely short and doesn’t overstay it’s welcome but it also doesn’t last long enough to give the viewers something to latch onto.
Finally, the film has a lot of campy visual effects that fits the film like you would expect and lack the carnage most would want to see from a killer poop movie. With that being said, I love the look of the shitters puppets and hope that one day we get a feature length film for them. Overall, The Revenge of Shitters is a different direction than the previous two films. While it is completely different, it still delivers on the little turds. I highly recommend checking it out!
