Crapston Villas
Crapston Villas
Directed by: Sarah Kennedy
1995
Released by: Troma
“Crapston Villas” is an absurd and batty romp through a sewer of an apartment building that is polluted by: drug addicts, pimps, street urchins, metal-heads and a ferocious feline named Fatso. These human (and inhuman) vermin go about their miserable lives trying to make ends meet, make dinner, get laid or get high. Generally they do succeed, but success is hardly the end of their misadventures, and for 5 hilarious episodes we watch these miscreants bounce from flat to flat and then into the streets and back again.
A granny overdoses on painkillers. A middle-aged housewife falls for a pimp and a homosexual couple noisily ball-it-up night after night. A highlight is getting to watch Fatso vomit into the living room floor and lap the green goop up as though it were a delicacy. What’s more is that his owners are completely indifferent to the grotesquery before them. I guess it’s all relevant to their surroundings. They live in a shit hole, so as long as the cat is cleaning up after himself who really cares, right?
This British clay-mation television show is absolutely not for kids. Hell, I’m not entirely sure its suitable for most adults, but I am in no way surprised that Comedy Central won’t touch it or that Troma released it.
This Troma DVD comes with some groovy extras like: “Toxic Crusaders” episode 9, an introduction by Lloyd Kaufman and the Purple Pam music video for “Kick In The Head.”
By: Christopher Curry
Posted by MK Magazine