Official Synopsis:

When three pals find a sweet deal on a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, they think they have struck party gold. But their dreams of sexy Hollywood ladies are quickly thwarted when they realize that their dream pad is also a direct portal to Hell. From a producer of Dude, Where's My Car? and directed by Robert Englund of A Nightmare On Elm Street.

  
Our Take:

After winning a settlement due to their dog being castrated, three best friends take the money and drive cross country to restart their lives. They head to California, and end up landing a sweet deal on a plush mansion in the Hollywood Hills. Suddenly a strange man speaking Spanish shows up (warning them of their impending doom) but the three idiots think “El Diablo” (which translates to devil in English) is a kind of hot sauce and offer him ketchup. The three amigos enjoy their new pad, but there’s a catch: the house is actually a porthole to hell, and the mysterious beauties that manage to show up seem to have something to do with it. The three boys throw a huge housewarming party which attracts the likes of Andy Milonakis and Joey Lawrence, as well as tons of victims!

Killer Pad plays as a mindless teen comedy. Produced by one of the guys who brought us Dude, Where’s My Car, it tries to capture that same formula of having incredibly dumb/naïve guys who are completely oblivious to the bloodshed surrounding them because they are so focused on their ultimate goal, which is scoring with some hot babes. Killer Pad scores with plenty of toilet humor, drug references and strongly suggestive sexual content.

Killer Pad has a few features for fans to slash through; there aren’t a lot, but considering it’s a direct-to-DVD release that’s not a big surprise.

* Audio Commentary – Sit down with director Robert Englund as he provides nuggets of insight into the film. Listening to Englund speak is always entertaining, but its more like sporadic thoughts than a streamlined one-way conversation.

* Making of Featurette (12 minutes) – This “behind the scenes” look at the making of Killer Pad is more for the technically aware. It is narrated by Englund and looks at the filming process, which is one of the first films to be shot entirely in HD.

* Trailer (2 minutes)

Killer Pad seems like it wants to be genuinely funny, and while it does have several moments where it becomes so absurd that you can’t help but laugh, most of the time it ends up falling flat on its face. Take it for what it is though, a mindless fluff film. It’s not meant to reinvent the wheel, just keep on spinning. It’s a movie to either rent or watch on cable.

Overall Picture:
Movie: C+
DVD: B-

- Chris Lawrence
Staff Writer