Product Description

OTIS is a story of suburban America gone haywire. In the midst of a serial abductor/killer?s rampage a beautiful young teen Riley Lawson (Ashley Johnson) goes missing. When her desperate parents Will and Kate (Daniel Stern and Illeana Douglas) are contacted by her kidnapper an insufferable FBI Special Agent (Jere Burns) takes charge of the case. But from deep within the psychopathic subterranean world created by Otis (Bostin Christopher) Riley turns the tables on her tormentor manages to escape and to contact her parents. Fed up with the tragi- comic inability of the FBI to find their girl Will Kate and Riley?s brother Reed (Jared Kusnitz) decide to take matters - and justice - into their own hands. But when Otis brother Elmo (Kevin Pollak) shows up unexpectedly the Lawsons find themselves mired in one of the more unusual and macabre consequences of vigilantism. Far from proclaiming ?Mission Accomplished? the backed-in-a-corner Lawsons will further complicate their already deadly predicament with a surprising unfortunate and frankly hilarious final choice.Running Time: 100 min.System Requirements:Running Time: 100 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/KILLER Rating: NR UPC: 883929005420 Manufacturer No: 1000036048

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7521 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2008-06-10
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.77:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.com
A fling at a horror-creepfest-black comedy, Otis means to score points by building a revenge fantasy into its tale of a junior-league Hannibal Lecter wannabe. Otis is a fat, nerdy pizza delivery guy whose home dungeon becomes a prison for high-school girls he's kidnapped. His current victim, Riley (Ashley Johnson), is made to endure all manner of yucky role-playing, including a fake prom date. Eventually Riley's family will turn suburban avengers, and the twisted humor of the piece will take center stage, but the movie spends far too much time on what can only be called torture porn--even if it's couched as a dark comedy. It's been done so many times before that the only interesting section of the movie, the family's reaction, is guilty by unsavory association. They're played by Illeana Douglas, Daniel Stern (carrying a warped memory of Home Alone), and Jared Kusnitz, all of whom appear to be enjoying the revolting things they're allowed to do. Otis is played by Bostin Christopher, who looks like Vincent D'Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket by way of Pruitt Taylor Vince. Most of the cast spends the movie in a full hysterical mode, including Kevin Pollak, as Otis's brother, and Jere Burns, as a colossally insensitive police investigator. The latter scarfs up most of the movie's genuine laughs, just by underplaying his most inappropriate comments. That sense of understatement could be used elsewhere in this overly familiar piece of sado-comedy. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews

Brilliant Farce
Absolutely brilliant and original...I wish I wrote this! How can you top something this screamingly funny?

From comedy to torture porn and back again . . .
Otis is the story of a serial rapist/murderer who preys on teenage girls; and the family of the only girl to escape from him.

Not for everyone, much like its main character, who veers back and forth from pitiable to detestable, this movie swings from comedy to torture porn and back. The scenes where Otis forces his attentions on his victim are played straight and are downright uncomfortable to sit through. The scenes where the victim's family goes "Lord of the Flies" and takes its revenge are definitely played for laughs, dark laughs, but laughs.

The mood swings are a little jarring and some of the acting is over the top (the FBI agents are all played strictly for laughs and that clashes a little with the tone of the rest of the movie), but all in all the gimmick works. If you like dark comedies this movie should appeal to you, if you are looking for family friendly fare or "straight" horror don't even consider seeing it.

The family that slays together stays together!
Last time director Tony Krantz hooked up with Raw Feed (distributor of this film), the end result was a movie entitled Sublime (which ironically enough, was anything but...). If you saw it, you probably don't remember much about it due to the fact that, if you were lucky you fell asleep early, OR that your mind has buried the near 2 hours of dull, over polished, metaphysical dreck that it was with other overly awful moments from the genre (i.e. Blair Witch 2, Anaconda, and nearly every Japanese horror remake). Well, with some surprise I bring you good news as far as Otis is concerned... it doesn't suck! In fact, it's good enough that I'm even kinda looking forward to this guys next movie... huh, how's that for a nice twist? Otis is the story of a hulking and demented 40 year old pizza delivery guy looking for love (and more importantly, a prom date)... in any unsuspecting neighborhod windows that allow easy access. Unfortunately for Otis though, he didn't expect his next victims family to be willing to do whatever it takes to exact their vengeance... hijinx ensue! No really, they do this time! You see, this is a horror/comedy (I probably should have made note of that earlier but...)and while it's never disturbing or scary, it does get a lot of the humor right, which makes for a fun watch (if only one). Of course, the obvious flipside of this is that it's a pretty light and fluffy affair... unlike the great exploitative horror/revenge films that it imitates, you won't be left feeling dirty and ashamed at all by the end of this (in fact, the most depraved thing you see is a girl get punched in the face). Still though, it's a horror/comedy that actually works, plus it has a fantastic cast (David Pollak in particular)... great film to watch with the significant other who "isn't normally into these type of movies."