Dead Hooker in a Trunk

Plot synopsis:
Badass (Sylvia Soska), Geek (Jen Soska), and Badass’s friend, Junkie (Rikki Gagne), pick up Goody Two-Shoes (CJ Wallis) from his church youth group. Afterwards, they plan to purchase drugs for Badass and Junkie. They discover the dead body of a hooker in the trunk of the car. Badass and Junkie had been partying the previous night, and do not recall if they killed her. They decide to dispose of the body.
They stay the night at a motel for free, after convincing the motel owner that the hooker is alive and will exchange sex for the room. Geek calls the police to shift responsibility for the corpse onto the motel owner. The police question Badass, but offer to let her go in exchange for sexual favors. She knocks them out, handcuffs them together naked, and leaves. She and Geek argue, and Badass knocks her out with a punch to the face.
They purchase drugs and use them to pass the time until it is dark enough to transport the body. A street gang assaults the dealer’s house, targeting Junkie and the dealer. Badass hears the fighting from outside the house. She rescues Junkie and shoots everyone else inside. Geek tries to call the cops, but an unidentified figure knocks out her right eye with a baseball bat. The four friends escape in their car.
They stop to look at a map. Junkie's arm, which was seriously injured in the fight, is torn off by a passing semi-truck. Goody Two-Shoes is able to sew it back on, and Geek’s empty eye socket is covered with an ‘X’ of electrical tape. They try to bury the hooker, but she sits up, alive. Badass instinctively hits her in the head with a shovel, killing her. Frightened and unnerved, they flee the scene.
The next day, they are attacked by the hooker’s pimp. Badass kills him. Geek and Badass have another argument, and the four friends separate. Badass drops off Junkie at a hospital. Geek and Goody Two-Shoes take separate cabs, but both end up at the hooker’s house. They rescue the hooker’s dog, and learn about a serial killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Retrieving Junkie from the hospital, they meet Badass at the hooker's house. They see someone who matches the killer’s description and they capture him. Geek and Badass torture him to death with power tools.
The man they kill is not the serial killer, however. The real serial killer is revealed to be Goody Two-Shoes’ priest. He was maimed by a botched circumcision, leaving him with a forked penis. A frequent user of prostitutes, he was enraged by their reactions to his deformity, and killed them. He kidnaps and tortures Badass. Geek, Junkie, and Goody Two-Shoes try to rescue her. The priest tries to escape, and they chase him. Geek is knocked to the ground. The priest threatens to rape her empty eye socket, but Badass rescues her twin. They set the priest on fire.
The four friends dispose of the hooker’s body by dumping it into the ocean. Geek and Goody Two-Shoes kiss, and Badass suggests they all deserve a vacation.

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Review:
Spiritual awakening in the scenic byways of western Canada...but only sort of.Less extreme horror exploitation than a null-budget anarcho-punk statement from identical twin sister auteurs Jen & Sylvia Soska (a.k.a. Twisted Twins), DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK is the visual equivalent of lo-fi riot grrrl garage rock—mashing up Robert Rodriguez, Harmony Korine, Nick Zedd, Amos Poe, and Eli Roth, with an occasional whiff of Greg Araki.
In keeping with a homage to no wave and grindhouse esthetics, the Soskas apparently consider continuity to be cisgender heteronormative fascism imposed by imperialist capitalist elitism: exterior shots filmed before & after a snowstorm are spliced together; one character's severed limb randomly appears re-attached; it seems that a lead role had to be reinvented on the fly when the actress cast for the part didn't show up on set and the only available substitute was the cameraman.
More specifically: Geek, her severely hungover twin sister Badass, and Badass' equally hungover punk-rawk pal Junkie are giving Geek's friend Goody Two-Shoes a lift home from his Christian youth ministry when, en route, they discover that someone's stashed drugs and a corpse in the boot of Badass' car.
When the movie starts the first thing you will notice is just how terrible the audio is.quickly followed by the lighting, camera work.
and editing.you will not know what the hell is going on.Then when the performances start you will face palm at the writing and execution.The thing that bothers me most is that the film makers have cast themselves in the lead roles, when really, if they cared at all about film making, they would have stayed on the other side of the camera, at least that way they could have attempted to limit the damage of every other terrible element at work.0 out of 10.
The Film "Dead hooker in the Trunk" was the highlight of my time.
The twin sisters (Jen and Sylvia AKA Twisted Twins) delivered an extremely well executed film.Basic story is about a group of teenagers driving around town in their black Camero notice a strange smell coming from the car.
The script was well written, the cinematography was decent, the special effects where low budget which actually added to the charm of the film.
But you are looking for some fresh new faces and good old fashion story telling, check this film out.I am anxious to see what Twisted Twins do next!.
Whether they tried too hard to be witty or weird, humorous or homage-y, the Soska Sisters didn't know which direction to take their debut so they ended up taking all of them.
I guess I understand why people really like it though; it's a (moderately) violent homage to Grindhouse films, that actually has a pretty fun sub-plot about a masked serial killer that's worth mentioning.
And, I spent the first 30 minutes rooting that a meteor would come and kill every character in the movie.But then, outrageous things started happening with little consequence.
thank god i did not pay any money to see this.i got tricked into watching it by reading a review on IMDb by someone who obviously is related to this flick somehow or is just some crazy feminist who is into this piece of *beep".if i had realized that the 2 girl "directors" are also acting the 2 lead roles, i would not have given it any chance.its just a cheap form of profiling themselves.
and thats what my girlfriend said about this movie, and she is very emancipated.this is my first review here, simply because it has been a REALLY long time since a movie "p*****" me of that much.the editing is crap, the dialogs are bad, it lacks any form of logic and is just a cheap shot at being funny by 2 man-hating women.
And a ride.Which makes it a fun ride.Relying more on creativity than budget, Dead Hooker In A Trunk, follows the exploits of a group of friends (highlighted by twin sisters, who also directed) throughout a day of pure madcap madness after finding (drumroll) a Dead Hooker in a Trunk.The violence is over the top, characters lose eyes and limbs...AND KEEP GOING and the quips and one liners never stop...and I mean NEVER.Has to be seen to be believed.
Without spoiling anything for anyone I can say it's about 2 sisters and their respective friends that suddenly realizes there is a dead hooker in the trunk of the car they are driving.
To those who liked this movie, there are indie films (and low budget ones) that are MUCH BETTER!
I kid you not, a movie with the title of "Dead Hooker in a Trunk" is meant to be taken seriously.
At least the humour wasn't as bad as Craig Moss.I actually thought at the start this movie was going to be good for what it's worth (If a Jesus freak sings in a movie with a premise like this you've sold me to watch the remaining 70 minutes).So what exactly is the premise you may ask.
They spend the whole movie trying to bury the body whilst coming across a crazy mob, serial killers and cowboys (and this was meant to be taken seriously?).One other complaint is a complaint I have with most Kaiju films (especially those "Godzilla Vs..." ones) after you have seen it all end the movie is below standard running time for full-length so they decide to write a reason in for the movie to continue then finishes.The idea was good for a comedy but because it isn't this movie ends up being crap..
I love you jen soska and sylvia for making such a cool movie.
People who vote low on movies like this should be banned permatly from IMDb.The whole movie is just one cool ride, with perfect characters who act allot better than most big movies, with there Hollywood actors just because k.
you wont regret one minute and i truly hope these sister/twins make more movies like this, girls you rock!!
Thanks for so much pleasure you know how to make movies thats a fact.Signed by a new huge van of the Soska sisters!!!!
Four very different friends, including two sisters, find themselves in an epic predicament when, after a night of partying, they discover a dead hooker in the trunk of their car.
While trying to find out just who she is and how she got their, the group encounter several crazy situations, including a serial killer who is hot on their trail.The film is a breath of fresh air in its originality; it sheds all genre clichés to offer an unpredictable, and for the most part entertaining ride.
The film blends several genres, one minute acting as a brutal grindhouse slasher, the next a buddy road trip comedy.
Their reactions to the situations they encounter are often inappropriate or unrealistic to the point of being distracting at points (after having an eyeball knocked out, exactly how long can one go with no medical attention and a piece of duct tape over the socket?) Still, Dead Hooker in a Trunk is a creative, ambitious first feature from the Soska sisters.
Once started I thought, yes, this is going to be good but once the girls are watching the trunk I knew what I was getting.
Trash.Written by the Soska sisters and even played and directed by them it is obviously a ultra low budget.
A Canadian horror exploitation film from the beautiful, twisted twins Jen and Sylvia Soska directors of 'American Mary' and tonight's movie is 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk'four friends set out on an everyday errand and end up in a fight for their lives when they discover the body of a dead hooker left in their trunk.
Lead by a sexy, impulsive Bad Girl, her distant Geek twin sister, their bible thumping, Jesus loving Goody Two Shoes friend, and a chaotic, rock star Junkie pal, the group has to put aside their differences to dispose of the body before they're next.
Thrown into their own personal purgatory, they face off against persistent police, a sleazy motel manager, chainsaw wielding triads, and a brutal serial killer.So 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' is pretty freaking good, not in a classical sense I mean the acting is kinda bad, the writing is very hilarious.
Then again you shouldn't expect an exploitation film called 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' to have deep complex characters and dialog and acting?
Eli Roth horror director and one of the biggest fans of exploitation films said this movie was awesome and I must agree!
one being something like 'The Corpse Grinders' ten being something like 'Braindead' 'Dead Hooker in a Trunk' is a 4.5 or 5 lots of blood splatter, severed limbs intestines and surgeryIf you love bad sleazy exploitation revenge horror films then you owe it to yourself to check it out, I promise you won't be disappointed.
Really terrible debut movie from the Soska Twins..
I recently saw the film American Mary which was directed by the Soska Twins.
With this in mind I had to see their debut movie, the brilliantly titled Dead Hooker in a Trunk.
But even cutting the Soska's some slack on this front, that doesn't change my view that Dead Hooker in a Trunk is a really terrible movie.Its plot-line is certainly high-concept - four friends find a dead hooker in the trunk of their car.
A strong story is certainly no requirement in a good film but a movie needs to get other things right in the absence of one.
If you're a fan of grindhouse movies, you're probably pretty forgiving of cheap-looking special effects, watery fake blood, and poorly developed characters.
In fact, one could make a pretty good argument that a true grindhouse movie almost requires these elements.This is an impressive debut, and I'd like to see what comes in the future.
It'd be a shame if the Soska sisters never got any attention and a chance to prove that they can make really good movies.
By honoring them, I watched their first film, which they wrote, directed, produced, and starred in as leading roles.
These four friends go through one hell of a ride, finding a dead hooker in a trunk.
Heil From New Zealand, Soskas.The Soska Family have collaborated to produce a pretty cool true low budget Grindhouse film.
The Soska sisters are two of the more interesting characters working in horror today...
identical twins with a seriously twisted outlook on life who have thus far written, directed, produced, and starred in several shorts and two full length indie movies, Dead Hooker In A Trunk (2009) and body modification horror American Mary (2012).
Suitably impressed by the latter, I felt compelled to check out their debut feature; sadly, Dead Hooker is nowhere near as an accomplished effort, being yet another weak Tarantino-style grind-house homage that wants to be both ultra-cool edgy thriller AND over-the-top splat-stick, but which ends up simply being a mess.Jen Soska plays 'Geek', a bible-thumping church-goer; Sylvia plays her sister 'Badass', the yin to her yang, a tattooed bitch in a tight black vest who refuses to take crap from anyone.
Together with 'Goody Two Shoes' (C.J. Wallis), Jen's virginal boyfriend, and crap punk-rock singer 'Junkie' (Rikki Gagne), they are thrown into a world of chaos and violence after the discovery of a dead hooker and some bags of cocaine in the trunk of their car.While I admire the Soska's for their attitude and obvious enthusiasm, I cannot bring myself to praise what is very clearly the work of naive newcomers; behind the admittedly nifty title lies a poorly written wreck of a film with embarrassingly bad dialogue and some truly terrible acting, not least from the sisters themselves.
but it's not supposed to be a serious grand epic.To think the Soska Sisters made this movie in film school for $2500, IMHO, they deserve an academy award.
The Soska twins directed, wrote and stars in this movie that seems to have gotten some pretty glowing reviews but I'm a little confused as to why because I found the film incredibly hard to get through.
The film isn't a complete disaster so I'll start off with the only good thing.
I think the vision of the film was actually quite good and it's hard to believe that this thing was shot for just a couple thousand dollars.
I'm not really sure what the point of the film was except to come off like a Quentin Tarantino movie and mix countless genres together with quick dialogue, over-the-top violence and other bizarre matters.
Every character is a cardboard stereotype, like you'd find in a movie written by a kid who didn't know how to write.
I don't know what you call their stiff, phony hamminess, but it's not acting.I know the Soska sisters did go on to become good directors and make watchable movies.
I really don't know where to begin pointing out the countless shortcomings of this film, nevertheless I will try my best.First, the allegedly refreshing and convincing story turned out to be among the most illogical, inconsequent crap ever written.
"Dead Hooker in a Trunk" was one that interested me because of the unique title, and when I watched it I was strangely compelled.
Twins "Badass" and "Geek", along with their friends, discover that the body of a hooker is in their car, and they begin to panic, as two of them ("Badass" and "Junkie", the characters are never named) reveal that they don't remember anything about the previous night.
So "Badass" leads the group on a quest to ditch the body, all the while arguing with her twin sister and her friend "Goody Two Shoes" about their lives and what they should do.
The film should descend into madness and incoherency at this point, but the Soska sisters manage to maintain a good pace throughout, with the 4 lead characters all strong enough to pull off what is required which is more than a simple blood and gore fest.
Dead Hooker in a Trunk is set in Vancouver and starts as the academic Geek (Jen Soska) gets a text message from her friend Goody Two Shoes (CJ Wallis) who needs picking up from Church so Geek gets her sister Badass (Sylvia Soska) to pick him up, together with the drug addict Junkie (Rikki Gagne) the four discover that a dead body has been left in the trunk of Badass's classic Thunderbird, Since none of them know how the body got there they decide to bury the it in the woods but a growing list of coincidences & adventures make this tougher than they expected.
From Cowboy pimps to serial killers to drug deals gone bad to bodily dismemberment it's a day neither of the two sisters will ever forget...This Canadian production was written, produced & directed by the Soska twins who also star in it, to be brutally honest the two look quite cute & seem nice enough on screen & I do feel a little guilty for saying this but I really didn't like Dead Hooker in a Trunk that much at all.
The script is a total mess that can't decide what it is or what it wants to be, like other's have noted Dead Hooker in a Trunk feels like a road film as the majority of it has the four main character's driving around into & out of various situations but they never really have any purpose or meaning & there's no great significance to anything they do.
The script feels like a collection of ideas strung together with no real connection, nothing seems to drive the story forward & the individual moments aren't that great anyway.Obviously low budget Dead Hooker in a Trunk looks alright to be fair, it's not a visual masterpiece but it's competent enough.
I can't say the look of the film appealed to me that much & the low budget does show at times, at one point the story starts after it's been raining & the ground is wet but shortly after the ground is covered in snow.
The two Soska twins are probably the best thing about Dead Hooker in a Trunk, they look to be having fun I suppose even if I wasn't.
Sorry girls.Dead Hooker in a Trunk is an oddity, it's an exploitative road film that never really feels like anything.
I was lucky enough to have received this film as a screener and submission for the Pretty Scary Blood Bath Film Festival this past February and after viewing it, it was promptly selected to play at the festival.Jen and Sylvia Soska are twin sisters from Canada and they are filmmakers - writers, directors, and actors - who, with their debut feature, demonstrate that they truly understand what goes into a great grindhouse action film.
Four diverse friends discover a dead hooker in their trunk and have different ideas as what to do with the body.
As they drive around with the body deciding what to do with it they are confronted by various groups attempting to make a good story more entertaining.The film attempted too hard to be a clever indie with a bunch of disjointed characters whereas they should have concentrated on just a few characters with better development to set up better dark comedy.Guide: F-word.
Fast forward to adulthood with the twins and their "friend" head out on their routine drug pickup, only to discover a dead hooker in the trunk after a long night of partying.
The whole movie moves at a "what the hell will they do next" pace which leads to a ride of a film that you won't soon forget Gore, guts, blood, all plenty of and done with the b-budget crafting perfectly so it isn't distracting by looking fake.
In "DHIAT", I noticed I had just watched a movie that not a single character had a name.BTW, Happy Birthday, Soska twins, today you are 30.