BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "Kondom des Grauens" or "Killer Condom" from 20 years ago is a German movie directed and written by Martin Walz together with Ralf König who is the author of the comic that this film is based on. It runs for 105 minutes basically, which I personally found way too long given that the film had nothing to offer. There are moments of horror, moments of drama, moments of mystery and science-fiction, but it does not deliver enough (in terms of quality and quantity) in any of these areas that I would say it is a fitting genre description. The only thing I can see it as is a comedy movie. The title character comes to life and does the unspeakable act when put where it usually belongs. No need to further elaborate on that. As a direct consequence, a police officer tries to find out what is actually going on and runs into all kinds of bizarre people and situations on the way to finding the truth, even something involving God at the very end. Oh well.. that has to happen when it is all about a carnivorous condom. How much you will like or dislike this movie has to do with and all comes down to how funny you will find the humor in here. I personally did not find it funny at all. And that is also why nothing stays apart from strange sexual (frequently disturbing and disgusting) references that make up this film. And the desperate attempt of being funny while not succeeding at all. Nothing worse than that. It says a lot that the cast includes mostly actors who usually score through charisma and not through range, such as the incredibly overrated Iris Berben. Sucks to see Leonard Lansink in here though. He is much much better than the level of this movie. As a whole, I give it a major thumbs down and ask... no beg you to watch something else other than this complete mess we have here. Watched it the second time today, many years after the first and it was just as bad. The only somewhat good thing was "Killing Me Softly", but of course no credit can go to the filmmakers for this song.

BHorrorWriter ...This is very interesting, funny movie! All German--Filmed in New York and killer condoms running around biting the...Heads off gay men in a brothel type hotel....German Drag Queen, Large cocked cops and young gay meat--mixed with a mad scientist "sent" by god to destroy all gays....this is a most for Troma fans... 8 out of 10

fringevideo A hilarious romp through New York's sludge and grime underbelly of drag queens; prostitutes, cops, and unhappy genitals. Based Ralph Konig's German comic book of the same name, Killer Condom was picked up by Lloyd Kaufman's notorious Troma Team after touring the alternative / underground film circuit, and doing quite well. The film features 'creative consulting' by H.G. [Alien (1979) / Species (1995)] Giger, and special effects by controversial splatter & gore director Jorg [Nekromantik (1989) / Schramm] Buttgereit. Determined to find out how the residents of a street wise hotel are ending up without there special purposes, a very hairy, and very homosexual Italian police detective named 'Luigi Macaroni' (played by Udo Samel) almost loses his own family jewels. ...A living, squirming, and worst of all, biting condom grips the city in prophylactic panic. Can the mega-endowed Luigi stop the cult of super villains who created the Killer Condom just to rid sexual deviants and other perverts from the City? Beware of the rubber that will rub you out.

LarsW-2 This trashy masterpiece is based on a cartoon by the great German cartoonist Ralf König (he is still quite unknown outside his home country and especially in the US for some reason). Your typical hardboiled, cynical, chain-smoking trench-coat wearing Italian detective stalks the street of New York. Only this one is openly gay, and is famous for his enormous..."schwanstucker". At the Hotel Quickie in his district, an alarming number of men have lost theirs. Over-eager hookers are first suspected, but our hero soon discovers the truth when he goes to the hotel and almost loses his – to a condom with teeth! Who may be behind this fiendish creature, and how is detective Macaroni going to convince others of the existence of this killer contraceptive before it strikes again? Unlike most Troma films this film actually have a rather good and coherent (but extremely absurd) plot. It is a satirical comedy that is actually played straight for the most part. For being a European film it actually had quite a big budget. It is also interesting to notice that lots of famous German actors and celebrities clamoured to get roles in this film that would have made Hollywood stars run away in terror screaming "Career killer!!!". The bearishly handsome and openly gay actor Udo Samel who stars as detective Macaroni has previously played in famous German masterpieces such as Far Away So Close and Kasper Hauser. There is a tender (but funny) love story included too. There is no frontal nudity but there are some sex scenes that might offend. But if you are easily offended, why are you here?The DVD version includes some nice animated menus, some Troma extras and a great comment track by the director and special effects supervisor. There are lots of funny anecdotes about the directors claiming to be making a documentary so they will get permission to film in famous locations, police officers closing off New York streets for hours, stunts that went horribly wrong, and all the gruesome scenes that were cut. "For some reason they cut a close-up shot here of the condom on the floor after it had just...fed. I can't see why. I think it was a beautiful shot". At one point there is a nice fade from a flashback sequence, into a reflection in a window, and then a pan as the actor turns and walks away into the distance. The director explains how he did it, and then with a big laugh adds "But this was probably lost on the average Troma viewer!" Alien designer Giger is included in the credits as a creative consultant, but he joined the filming so late he could basically only say "yes, that looks good" about the designs already made. The film is in German with English subtitles. Unfortunately you can't turn the subtitles off, they are not on a separate track but for what its worth, it is a very good translation. American viewers might find it amusing to see German actors speaking German pretending to be New Yorkers, but as the directors point out, that is what Hollywood does to the rest of the world all the time.The second half of the movie is unfortunately less polished (relatively speaking of course) than the first because the makers ran out of time and money. Lots of scenes were cut from the second half, which makes some subplots a little confusing, but the directors admit that the film would probably have been even better if some more stuff had been cut from the last half. However, it is still a good film and I can recommend it if you are a fan of trashy entertainment.