Killer Condom (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #51 extract: Killer Condom (1996)

An insane German comedic horror, sometimes funny, always absurd. Killer Condom is seemingly a parody of American detective films, one that tries to carry a convoluted social commentary on the suppression of sexuality both in the real and cinematic world. This is then a Freudian drama, rife with innuendo and sexual nonsense that seemingly has roots in psychological truth; a fear of emasculation, of ones own sexuality, of love. Killer Condom would have benefited hugely from being shorter and cutting out all attempts at a commentary on the wider world. Its strength seems to be bound to its main character - a gay detective with a nutty transvestite ex and a new potential lover - not its imprecise and ham-handed pokes at politics and religion. 

It's Almodóvar meets Gilliam and it lacks heart and focus; probably worth the watch, but not a brilliant film.