Triloquist is a 2008 horror film written and directed by Mark Jones, he's the guy who wrote and directed Leprechaun. He mostly wrote TV shows and most of it wasn't stuff I would bother watching. He directed 5 theatrical films and I can't say I'd seen any but Leprechaun and Triloquist.
A crazy blonde girl called Angelina and her disturbed brother Norbert take a dummy on a corpse strewn trip across the desert. They're the children of a drug addled ventriloquist. She dies, overdosing on her hotel room floor, with the little children in bed. The kids get sent to their uncles home, he's an abuser, the dummy suffocates him. The dummy spent years locked up in a suitcase, he's taken out when Angelina is 17. The dummy kills a kid and Angelina blames Norbert. He's locked up and Angelina plans to break him out. She's got this deluded plan that Norbert and the dummy will headline in Las Vegas. There's an open spot since Siegfried and Roy retired.
The trio hit the road, robbing and killing all sorts of people. They kidnap a poor woman because Angelina wants to breed Norbert so the family name can continue. The dummy tries to get Norbert to leave Angelina but that never works out well. The police catch up to them and get shot. That poor cop in the picture gets blasted by the dummy and the dummy shoots off the screen, exit stage right.
That might be the best joke in the movie. Sadly, the rest of the jokes aren't that good. Generally the movie seems to plod along. I thought it was struggling to be average and didn't think it more entertaining than his Leprechaun movie. I bought the DVD cheap so I'll keep it but I might not get around to it again.
Garlic And Gunpowder is a 2017 crime comedy that wasn't very funny. It has an odd cast in a bunch of scenes, some of which are incomprehensible. It's the work of Steven Chase and Zachary Sasim, they wrote the original story, Harrison Smith wrote the screenplay and directed. Steven acts in the movie too. He's not that good at any of this stuff. I would give this a miss if I were you.
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