curdled is a deliciously dark and witty black comedy , but its humour wo n't appeal to everyone .
to be specific , let me give you an example .
do you know in pulp fiction where jules and vincent go on brain detail after marvin and his head accidentally get separated ?
if you thought that was completely tasteless and unfunny , do n't see curdled .
on the other hand , if you found that sequence to be pretty funny , you have the sense of humour that curdled is aimed at .
our film 's heroine , gabriela , played by angela jones , is a woman obssessively curious about murder and serial killers ; she even keeps a scrapbook of news articles .
luckily for her , miami is being plagued by a serial killer rampage - her scrapbook is getting pretty big .
the killer 's nickname in the press is the blue blood killer , because he preys on older rich socialite women , and he 's played by william baldwin ( this is not a spoiler ) .
one particularly striking m .
o . on the blue blood killer is his propensity to decapitate his victims .
gabriela is watching television one day when she spots an advertisement for a firm whose line of work is perfectly attuned to her interests .
she immediately quits her job , and signs on with pfcs , which stands for post - forensic cleaning service .
no points for guessing what they do .
her workmates are confused by gabriela 's fascination with murder ; to them , it 's just a day job .
there 's a hilarious locker room scene where they debate whether decapitated heads can talk , and what they would say .
gabriela 's partner , elena , played by mel gorham , is particularly perturbed by gabriela 's wide - eyed fascination , and becomes really upset when gabriela volunteers them to clean up the blue blood killer 's latest scene - they 're the messiest , you see .
unbeknownst to them , the last victim left something on the scene which would i d the blue blood killer , so he 's also heading over there . .
the comparison to pulp fiction earlier on was not accidental - quentin tarantino executive - produced this film , which began life as a short film he saw at a film festival .
apparently tarantino was so impressed that he helped braddock convert this into a feature - length film .
there are other parallels
- the star of curdled is angela jones ( the top billing goes to william baldwin , but really , jones is the central character ) , who 's probably best known for her role as esmerelda villalobos , the death - obssessed taxi driver in pulp fiction .
that role was written specifically for jones based upon her similar character in the aforementioned short film , curdled jr .
jones is great in curdled - she 's wonderfully funny and maintains an amusing wide - eyed naive curiousity about murder without compromising her character 's innocence or likeability .
she can express so much with one lift of her eyebrow .
it 's a great performance .
reb braddock 's direction is extremely sharp and clever , toeing the line between black humour and bad taste .
the best scene in the film is an outrageously funny sequence involves jones and dancing -
any more than that would be a spoiler .
the opening credit sequence is also inventive and amusing .
of course , it 's impossible to really take this stuff seriously , but then again you 're not really supposed to - braddock knows the audience is in on the joke , and makes it a fun little romp as a result .
the one drawback of curdled is that it was based on a short film , and it feels like it ; the material is just stretched too thin in order to fulfill a feature length running time , and some parts just seem to drag .
while its running time is already a short 94 minutes , it could really stand to lose twenty minutes or so to give it better pacing .
curdled seems destined to be a nice cult film for miramax .
it 'll be interesting to see if it will appeal to mainstream audiences as well .
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