Here's an interesting little film. Why it's apart of the Troma catalogue is beyond me, as it would be a better fit on a Something Weird Video double feature with some William Grefe' snooze-fest. An interesting film nonetheless. Written by none other than Larry Cohen of all people. But something about this film annoys me. Several things, actually. First off, the main character, Janet. This disagreeable ice queen comes off like a snooty, self important little bitch. Fancying herself all deep and intellectual. The look on her face tells me she's constipated. And I sincerely hope that's the case.


Scream Baby Scream offers some extremely unlikable college students who fancy themselves artists. There's of course constipated ice queen Janet, her grumpy, neglected boyfriend, Jason, whom she contradicts every chance she gets. I would feel bad for the guy if he wasn't such a dick himself. He's expecially a dick to Janet's friend, Scotty (played by Rodney from The Gruesome Twosome). Which is fine, cuz Scotty is a tool. Apparently intended as some sort of comedy relief for this piece of shit, but failing miserable at every attempt. Then, there's Marika. She's okay.

This group of frenemies hangs out, they bicker, trip on acid at the zoo, and just wanders around, killing time for 45 minutes until a story is finally thrown together. Janet's fascination with a famous painter that recently visited their art class gets her in the middle of his drama with some crazy doctor that he lives with. I'm not 100% clear on everything from the incoherent, badly lit last 1/3 of the movie. But what matters here is that bad things happen to Janet. After getting kidnapped by the artist she so idolizes, she gets her face disfigured as a part of some sort of plastic surgery experiment. But now, they got dick boy Jason to worry about. For some reason, he wants to rescue Janet from these crazy fucks. Hopefully, he'll just leve her there once her sees that ugly face of hers.

A unusual obscurity this movie is. The characters do a terrible job at acting like a group of friends who know eachother and stuff. And the last 1/3 of the movie feels very out of place, as if it's an entirely diffrent movie. Not really much of an ending, as it just kind of ends out of nowhere. As dumb and pointless as Scream Baby Scream is, I do find obscure little oddities like this quite interesting. Movies where the cast members would go on to do little to nothing else.Not alot of info on this one. No extras like interviews or commentary, as it can only be found on one of the Toxie's Triple Terror sets along with Fertilize The Blaspheming Bombshell and Stuff Stephanie In The Incinerator. Not surprisingly, Scream Baby Scream is by far the high point of that triple feature. But the point is, no extras sheding any light on how things went down with this movie. I'll bet Something Weird Video would have provided something for us Scream Baby Scream fans. All Troma gives us is a trailer they threw together, featuring sound effects from Redneck Zombies. Talk about out of place.

Scream Baby Scream is like a 60's Herschell Gordon Lewis gore film without the gore. All the other elements were present. A mad painter, Ineptitude, wooden acting, silly bullshit, and of course, the Florida location. When viewing Scream Baby Scream for the first time, I waited and waited for the gore, and waited some more. But there's none to be had. Which makes me wonder, what exactly was the point? Perhaps to build up this despicable character who's posing as the heroine, only to have her ugly face and worthless life ruined as a pay off to those of us who despise her? Probably not. But ya know what? I'll take it! 4/10