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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929005420
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 13448
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
Editorial Review:
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
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
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Rating:  - Brilliant Farce
Absolutely brilliant and original...I wish I wrote this! How can you top something this screamingly funny?
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Poor Attempt at Dark Comedy
This movie tried very hard to be a clever dark comedy, but they wound up making a mess. The ending (or rather the last 30 min) was horrible. For sitting through such an atrocity, you'd think they could at least give me something to make up for it, but they didn't. Very derivative and with horrendous dialogue. By the end of the film, I was so disgusted that I felt the need to warn people. Apparently a lot of people like it though. I don't know why, but I guess there are a lot of people out there with ... Read More
Rating: - Dementedly funny satire of torture porn
Otis is a slasher sitcom that courageously maneuvers, or shall I say penetrates, some almost sacred ground. It's a comedy about a pedaphile.
The pizza delivery guy, Otis, has some issues. I'm not talking about high gas prices and cruddy tips. He's got some trouble fitting in. He's kind of a sick more deranged version of Jim Carrey in The Cable Guy. Otis kidnaps young women and traps them in his nifty torture chamber.
Now that is a terrible, frightening situation. The horrific possibilities ... Read More
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