We opened this year’s spring T-Fest with The Brute Man, a neat efficient semi-horror starring the tragic Rondo Hatton. Next we got our first monster film, the extremely weird anthology flick Horror and Hamsters. It delivers exactly what the title promises; short (if eventually not short enough) vignettes of horror with dollops of black humor, split up by the antics of two adorable, furball hamsters, Dumptruck and Porkchop. The horror segments, to their detriment, continue to grow longer and less impactful. I was also a bit weirded out when they started featuring nudity and simulated sex, given, you know, the cute hamster stuff. Even so, on the whole I thought it was fairly entertaining, although apparently most of the rest of us were harder on the horror stuff than I was. I mean, I know this is setting the bar VERY LOW, but I had recently seen Verotika. (And I will say the limited nudity in H&H, featuring real-looking women, was much more pleasing then the constant, literally overstuffed nudity of that film.) Anyway, I think it’s on Amazon Prime, and you could always fast forward through the horror and just watch the hamsters.
