Mad Cow (2010)

How sad is this?

Excellent adaptation.

Absolutely Fantastic

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Madcow is a spoof of the Frankenstein film. In this version a cow's head is attached to a super human body. This creature secures a chain saw and goes around killing people. The film makes fun of movie techniques used in action and horror films. It was at times amusing, but never a belly laugh. The girl reading her lines from a clipboard I thought was the best part.Guide: F-word, nudity (Lola the body double)

MAD COW is a shot on video comedy horror film, made in South Africa for a change. Thus we have some interesting locations including a hunting lodge rather than the usual American or British woodland. I suppose you could class this film in the same vein as the likes of EVIL ALIENS, a film I thought was terrible but which looks pretty decent compared to these homemade stinkers.And MAD COW does stink, unfortunately. It's about a bunch of characters menaced by a human-cow hybrid, which is literally a guy wearing a cow head. Various weapons are used in the cheap gore scenes, while the script tries very hard indeed to be funny but fails miserably at all times. No surprise that Troma put this out, as with the poor direction and campy performances this is the typical Troma concoction and simply not worth the bother of watching.

Mad Cow is a fast and furious comedy horror movie with the accent on the comedy. It's like a surreal roller coaster ride through horror and action movies. Although the movie is low budget, it wins the viewer over with charm, and lots and lots of gags.The plot is less important than the insane set pieces, but it centres around a mad scientist out to put the head of a cow on a human body, but of course it all goes wrong, and the fall out is a ridiculous take on action / monster flicks that unfolds into a zombie battle scene. It's fun to watch and I bet it was a scream shooting it.I watched a 'pre-screener' from a friend who went to Cannes where the film screened, he said there was a scrum of people trying to get in to see the film in a tiny theatre and a guy wandering round dressed as Mad Cow.If you're out for gore and realistic special effects forget it, if you want utterly insane, and sometimes shocking laughs then this is for you. weird and wonderful.

Mad Cow was only somewhat entertaining. Aside from the 2 minutes of suspense, it was ridiculously stupid and poorly written.It reminds me of the American film Mad Cow released in 2008 which was equally as poorly made. I think it reaches out to only a very specific and very small population. you have to be alright with fake looking gore and borderline gore porn. And even then, it leaves quite a lot to be desired.The filmmakers should have invested in cg rather than poor actors who were paid more than their lack of talent warranted.The whole movie was very awkward as though it was deliberately trying to be bad. Anybody who would waste time and money to make (and moviegoers-to watch) something like this is clearly mental.