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Drainiac is fun, funky, flashbacky horror opus, 12 July 2002
8/10
Author: John Dalton (jdalton@bsu.edu) from the Heartland of America

Brett Piper's "Drainiac" harkens back to horror's modern heyday in the mid 80s, and takes that retro groove on a tongue-in-cheek roller coaster ride through a haunted house opus. Lots of fun, solid FX work from Piper as always, and good energy throughout. Suffers a bit in post-production looping, but it's a coin toss whether Georgia Hatzis' bath or Leslie Culton's skull-faced boogie is better. Very solid independent outing.

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Hilarious b-movie fun!, 3 May 2003
Author: siereveld21 from Cincinnati, Ohio

Wow! This had to be one of the most fun b-movies that I've seen in a while. Terrible acting between completely dysfunctional characters, super cheesy special effects, boom mike shots, and a final showdown with what looked like re-used footage from Krull. The soundtrack did not match with the actors mouths in MANY places making it even more hilarious when they delivered the horrible lines in the script. It had it all though, from the excessive use of slow motion, a man having his genitals ripped off by a rubber tentacle, to a toy car sinking in the mud where a real car had been. This is a must rent for a bad movie night or if you are like me and enjoy movies made with my weekend beer budget. Two thumbs up for this one.

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a vomit-fest of a blob ripoff, 26 February 2009
1/10
Author: DuctTapeAvenger from United States

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horrible movie with lame attempts at humor and stiff acting casting was ridiculous (main character is 17, but has a tattoo??) this movie should be burned.... and to think this title was in the top rented section.... if i could retroactively kill the person who invented the DVD... i would kill him/her just so my eyes wouldn't be scorned by this movie.

It starts off with a campy scene, and then just fails as the horrible CGI monster, or green blob dissolves a guy.

Then zoom in present day. A teenage girl with an abusive father, has friends help clean an abandoned house, class clown/ renegade pops out.....

uggh... this was a cardboard cutout "C" movie.... the best part of this movie?

the credits at the end

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now that's 10,000 dollars down the drain, 10 January 2009
2/10
Author: movieman_kev from United States

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Two bums freezing from the cold stumble upon a seemingly deserted house & one is quickly disposed of in the basement by an unseen force or rather a seen liquid. Flash forward a few years and we find Julie (Goergia Hatzis), who also has recurring nightmare, goes up with her overbearing father to clean up the aforementioned house (her dad buys houses to turn over) Her friends come up to help, but the killer liquid/mist/vapor is waiting for them I understand the makers of the film were working on a really minuscule budget, but this film was still awful. The plot just didn't click for me (a problem no amount of money could've fixed) and at even only 80 minutes running time my interest was wanning before it was even halfway though. The film is also heavily disjointed.

Eye Candy: Georgia Hatzis goes full frontal an shows her ass as well; Adrienne McCleave & Leslie Culton both provide T&A

My Grade: D

DVD Extras: Commentary by Writer/director Brett Piper, Creg Conley, & Michael Raso; trailer for this movie; and trailers for "Shock-O-Rama", "Dark Chamber", "Millenium Crises", "Bacterium", "Chainsaw Sally", "Creature from the hillbilly lagoon", "Sinful", "Skin Crawl", "Feeding the Masses", "Prison a go go", "Suburban Nightmare", "Bite me!", "Screaming Dead", "Demoness", "& "psycho Sisters"

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Tight sweater girl, 23 February 2004
Author: Dr. Gore (drgore@hotmail.com) from Los Angeles, California

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*SPOILER ALERT* *SPOILER ALERT*

I rented this one the other day so I could teach my cousin the joys of B-movies. He was ignorant of their wild ways. My brother and I sat him down and showed him what true cinema is all about. We saw this back to back with "Slumber Party Massacre III". If that doesn't change your outlook on movies, nothing will. Unfortunately, I don't think we made a B-movie believer out of him. Oh well. At least we tried.

"Drainiac!" is about a girl who has to clean a disgusting house. Her friends stop on by to help. They somehow release the "Drainiac!". He's a water demon that is rummaging through the house. He does his demonic squirting shenanigans and the teens flag down an aquatic exorcist to purge the pipes.

As a low, (and I mean low!), budget flick, "Drainiac!" was about what I expected. It certainly wasn't a great movie but I was mildly entertained by it. For a budget of about $500, I think the cast and crew did a reasonable job.

The one aspect of "Drainiac!" that broke my heart was the tight sweater girl. She was the main girl's friend. And she wore a tight sweater. She had much larger breasts than her friend and yet did not feel the need to rip off her sweater. Why couldn't the "Drainiac!" have made a play for her? He could have at least sprayed her once or twice for a Wet Sweater Contest. That would have hit the spot. Ahhhhh...

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Not the worst I've seen but it tries hard to be., 22 July 2005
2/10
Author: John_Warwick (johnpaulwarwick@yahoo.co.uk) from North East England

Well I've been suffering from insomnia for the last couple of months but after watching this film on DVD I have found a cure. Like I said its not the worst film I've ever seen but it is extremely dull and I found my mind drifting off before I nodded off. The story involves a bunch of kids a haunted house with some gooey green stuff and thats about all I can remember of it. Maybe the film would benefit a little from some decent editing as certain scenes where nothing interesting happened seemed to go for too long but then again it is such a short film without cutting it, it would probably come in at under an hour that way. So if you have to watch every cheap horror film it might be worth a look otherwise save your time and cash.

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shoestring effort that's imaginative and campy--I was entertained, 1 April 2005
5/10
Author: willywants

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An abused teen-aged girl is brought to a spooky old house by her father and told to clean it up. A group of the girl's friends show up, but things go bad when they learn that the plumbing has slimy, nasty demons living in them!

Brett Piper isn't a filmmaker who'll be winning any Oscars anytime soon. His films are super low-budget, cheap horror films, some of which are downright awful (Arachnia and They Bight being his worst). Here, however, he manages to pull off a reasonable impressive production on a shoestring budget.

The acting isn't very good. In fact, some of it was just awful, especially the actor playing the obnoxious punk kid, Wade. The script is weak too—Piper doesn't know how to pace things and as a result there are some scenes that just go on and on and on. The real stars of the film are the special effects, which are plentiful and often imaginative. The stop-motion animation was great, the make-up effects were often very good and the creature effects were quite impressive, though there is one rather tacky-looking creature near the end that resembles a Kermit the Frog puppet. There's some nice gore here, too, the most cringe-inducing being when some poor boy gets his crotch destroyed by a squid-thing (ouch), and a cool scene where a guy is covered in green goop then dissolved to the bone.

Its all cheesy, though it has something many of its type don't—a sense of humor. I've seen many a B movie that have failed from a lack of humor, and thankfully Piper seems to be aware of this.

"Drainiac" may not be high art, but its fun, different and occasionally imaginative. You could do much worse with a $2 rental.

5/10.

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Not Quite What You'd Expect..., 27 March 2005
7/10
Author: ramza-2 from California, USA

When I first cautiously popped this into my DVD player I didn't know what to expect. I had low hopes for it, and I figured it'd be total crap given the time and budget it was made under. And throughout the first part of the movie I was right. HOWEVER... There were things I overlooked... the fact that the film was shot on film. Yes! Actual film. As most low budget movies are shot on crappy analog or digital now a days, it cheapens the effect. This movie seemed to have a fluctuating budget or the director was saving the goods till the end. I won't give away anything, but if you're a true fan of Evil Dead, and like corn ball movies. Give this one a shot. It deserves at least one view. The acting isn't that great, but the lead is pretty hot and there is a nice full frontal nude scene. The story itself doesn't make much sense, but the characters introduced at the end of the film make the film. All in all, I gave it an IMDb rating of 7/10. It's a good effort, and not a bad film. Although it certainly lacks replay value, I have no regrets viewing it the first time.

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No-budget horror comedy done right, 4 May 2003
Author: Katatonia from Missouri

Not everyone will like Drainiac, or even appreciate it for what it is. This was obviously a very low-budget production, but that helps it out a great deal in my opinion.

Brett Piper knows how to make a great movie on a shoe-string budget. This is welcome, because most low-budget horror movies I've seen in the last few years have been average or just plain dreadful. With the advent of Digital Video (a.k.a. cheap, cheap) it seems like any Joe can try to make a lame film and get it released in a video store.

I have seen only one other movie directed by Brett Piper, which was a little gem called "Psyclops". It's also a very original low-budget movie that is somewhat horror, but mostly in the sci-fi genre. I hope to see more of his films in the future, he can work wonders where there is little to work with.

Check out Drainiac if you can find it, you just might like it. But make sure you like low-budget horror movies with a comedy twist....otherwise you probably won't appreciate what Drainiac set out to do.

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Boobies, gore and...boobies. This film has it all., 22 February 2003
7/10
Author: shaunw from Arlington, VA

My 9 year old brother picked this movie up from Hollywood Video today, and we watched it together (No, I wouldn't recommend this movie for most 9 year olds, but my little brother is...different). If you rent this movie, you need to know what to expect. This was a low-budget film. It's not going to have the kind of special effects you see in theatres. If you can't dig a good independent film, don't bother renting this.

The storyline was cute...and so were the actresses, I mean WOW! The lead actress found a new reason to take her clothes off like every five minutes, and this guy had his genitals mutilated by a toilet (he had it coming though). Good stuff man.

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