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.