Directed by The Soska Twins/Canada/Feature

Is Dead Hooker In a Trunk wonderfully terrible or terribly wonderful? The writing/directing/acting duo, the foxy Soska Twins, have delivered a grimy slice of low-budget depravity that's as entertaining as it is completely ridiculous. It suffers from many of the pitfalls of DIY horror, including a surplus amount of profanity in the dialogue, a constant, tinny drone of heavy metal music in the background, and a disjointed plot that seems to throw all logic out the window, but there's some very real moments of inventiveness in it as well.

Twin sisters defined by their characters' non-names, The Geek (Jen Soska) and The Badass (Sylvia Soska), find a dead hooker in the trunk of their car and decide to dispose of it themselves instead of notifying the authorities. They're accompanied by Geek's friend, Goody Two-Shoes (C.J. Wallis), and Badass's friend, Junkie (stuntwoman Rikki Gagne), in a topsy-turvy mini-roadtrip that includes a deranged cowboy pimp, chainsaw-weilding drug dealers, a pug dog in bondage wear, cartoonish bodily harm, and other run-ins too disgusting to mention here.

Dead Hooker In a Trunk may be cheap and rough, too long in the tooth, and noticeably amateur, but, somehow, through all of that, you can tell that the Soskas have talent. They seem to be genuine perverts with a rowdy sense of anything-goes humor, and they're able to corral that (some of the time) with strong comic timing and a good eye for compositions. I really wasn't sure if this would be my cup of tea during the first few minutes, but by the end of the film they'd surprised me enough with likeable characters and genuine laughs, that I have to admit I was won over. It's certainly not for everybody, but I know that's how the Soskas want it.