Mongolitos (1988)

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

When a film opens with a turd's eye view of a man rising from the crapper, you know you're in for a really repugnant time, and sure enough, French short Mongolitos spends its entire 7 minutes runtime packing in as much scatological perversion as it possibly can: a junkie enters the cubicle, shoots up with stinky brown water from the toilet bowl, and pukes up a massive log; a tranny gets taken face down in the bowl by a black dude; then a nun joins in the fun, everyone takes out crackers, and begin to scoop poop from the unflushed john for a tasty snack.Cheap and amateurish, Mongolitos is clearly the result of a few insane guys with a video camera attempting to make the most revolting film they can just for a laugh (probably after a drunken conversation down the pub); the finished product is blessed with a warped sense of humour that makes matters slightly less offensive than they sound (although I still wouldn't suggest watching this one with the in-laws!), but even with a touch of levity, it didn't do much for me—I guess bizarre, turd-based French cinema just isn't my thing (thank heavens!).

No real idea how to rate this absolute strangeness. I got a kick out of it, but the complete bizarrity of this uber-weird short-film makes it hard to give it a proper rating...A dude with some major hemorrhoids takes a dump in a public restroom. A junkie comes in - uses the dook-water as his junk, and after firing-up pukes out a giant turd. In come some more weirdos - including an inter-racial couple, a horny nun, a janitor, and everyone ends up dipping what looks like nacho-chips in the poop-water and eating them...Yeah - that's actually what happens in this completely bugged-out short-"film" - I couldn't make something like this up if I tried. It's all handled quite humorously, so it's not quite as disgusting as it sounds - but it is completely insane. DEFINITELY worth a look to films of EXTREMELY strange cinema - others will be repulsed. Fun stuff...8/10