Blu-ray Review – Eating Miss Campbell

Writer/director Liam Regan is out to replicate the Troma Entertainment experience in 2022's "Eating Miss Campbell." It's a picture that's aiming to be outrageous at every turn, poking fun at topics such as teen suicide, school shootings, and sexual assault. Troma has built their empire(?) on such provocative releases, giving Regan a North Star to follow when it comes to compiling potentially offensive material, shot on the lowest budget possible. "Eating Miss Campbell" is a comedy, though one that's weirdly without any laughs, finding Regan pushing hard to make something wacky and painfully self-aware, trying to stay ahead of the joke…if there was an actual joke in the feature. Instead, the helmer throws in references to all kinds of cinematic achievements and pushes his untested cast to go broad with their performances. The offering is obnoxious, but that's the point. It's also poorly constructed, performed, and written, which doesn't seem quite as intentional. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com