Voting for this one is tough, it’s either a one star or a 10 star! I picked it up the other night as an impulse buy when getting gas…there at the counter for $9.99 was a 10 movie, 3DVD crap compilation called “Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies.” This was the movie that sold me on the package…ow had I not heard of this one? Technically, it’s awful. Sound and visual quality are very spotty, as is usually the case with these cheap compilations. Heck, spotty implies there may be some good moments, so let me change that assessment to horrible. Continuity is an afterthought, camera shots attempt to be arty, from shots up through the bottom of a toilet bowl to dizzying handhelds.

Perhaps the biggest plot issue is the appearance of the mysterious and diminutive Dr. Kiss, performing his Frankensteinian experiments in the White House basement. He seems to be some sort of power behind the throne, but we never discover more than that. Everything about the good doctor, from the deference of the president, his experiments, to his disappearing with a peculiar sunglassed man into the same stall of a bathroom, makes no sense whatsoever. It really seems like one day on the set someone said “hey look, we got a midget! Write him into the story!” Sure, it makes no sense, but after the movie you and your fellow viewers will be laughing and wondering wtf it was all about.

The political humor has it’s moments, lots of hippie hating and attempts by the administration to control the hated and feared media (the pres holds an unscheduled press conference to announce an agreement with the Chinese, he and his handlers hope it will deflect attention from his declaring martial law in D.C. to take care of the problems of the murders and the damned hippies).

There are an abundance of laugh-out-loud moments, whether intentional or not, but more than anything else the greatest thing of this movie is its ability at the end to leave you with an overwhelming feeling of “what the heck was that?”