The Worst Film Ever

From my favorite movies..

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Saw this film on satellite TV a few weeks ago after a late night out. Terrible filming, even worse sound and non-existent storyline, but a gem of trash cinema! Olaf the Dwarf is the undisputed star, surely he must have been an inspiration for Chucky? It is difficult to watch in places, especially the scene where Olaf rapes Mary, Anne Sparrow who played her is the only other person to emerge from the movie with anything like credit, you really feel for her as she realises what she has stumbled into and are hoping that she manages to get out of it and back to her husband. Even if he is a real dork! But if you like your trash you'll be in heaven!

This film seems to be one of the better known entries in the seemingly made up 'dwarfsploitation' genre and if it's indicative of the entire genre, I'm glad it's the only one I've seen! The film is basically just your average gritty and sleazy exploitation flick, except this time the killer is an ugly little dwarf. The film is as gritty and sleazy as you would expect it to be with a title like 'The Sinful Dwarf'. The focus is always on the sleaze elements too which despite meaning that the film lacks suspense and tension, does mean that it comes through on the shock value side of things. The plot focuses on a boarding house ran by the dwarf of the title and his mother who happens to be equally as sinful. The boarding house is really just cover for their other little business endeavour, a white slavery ring. The attic is full of pretty girls bound and addicted to heroin. The plot thickens when a young couple moves into the house and threatens to uncover the mother and son's sideline...The majority of the film is made up of sex scenes and general weirdness involving the dwarf and his mother. The sex scenes aren't all that well filmed or erotic unfortunately, although it does up the sleaze level of the film. It's quite boring though and these scenes really slow the film down. The ideas surrounding the dwarf are generally good in the way that they seek to shock the viewer. Torben Bille is a creepy looking actor and he fits the part well for that reason. The way that the dwarf plays with children's toys and acts like a child is one of the most skin crawling things about it. The film does feature a lot of useless elements, however, some cabaret style thing that the sinful pair do is never relevant to the plot in any way. It has to be said that The Sinful Dwarf is a really empty experience on the whole so it's hardly surprising that many people who see it don't like it. The only real reason for subjecting yourself to this film would be if you have a habit of enjoy sleazy exploitation. I do tend to enjoy this stuff, however, and this one didn't do much for me.

Dværgen, or The Sinful Dwarf as it's more commonly known amongst English speaking audiences, is set in England where failed author Peter Davies (Tony Eades) & his wife Mary (Anne Sparrow) are searching for a cheap room, eventually they come across a boarding house run by Lila Lash (Clara Keller) & her midget dwarf son Olaf (Torben Bille) who charge a reasonable £6 a week. Unfortunately Mary doesn't like the house & with very good reason because Lila & Olaf keep young women chained up in the attic & shoot them up with heroin to make them more compliment so when a paying guy comes round looking for sex he can do pretty much anything he wants with them. Mary discovers the horrifying truth but Lila & Olaf force her to become their latest unwilling employee...This Danish American co-production was directed by Vidal Raski & what an unpleasant boring little film it is too. The script, if you can call it that, by William Mayo is as sleazy as they come. From kidnapped girls who are forced into prostitution, forced heroin addiction, a perverted little dwarf & his ugly old mum, a drug dealer named Santa Claus, rape, whippings all set in a grimy location which they would have to pay me £6 a week to live in rather than the other way around. Dværgen sounds really good doesn't it? Unfortunately I found it a rather tedious & boring film, the character's are awful & there is no development at all, the dialogue is strangely dull & not particularly funny, the pace is slow, the exploitation scenes are few & far between & aren't that graphic anyway. Overall Dværgen has a sleazy feel about it because of the subject matter & the things which are taking place rather than what is actually on screen. I just didn't like it at all really, I found it far too dull & boring to sustain my interesting over 90 odd minutes which felt like a very, very long time.Director Raski films things in the most dull, bland & amateurish way. This is point, shoot & hope for the best sort of stuff. There's no style or flair here at all, it's not scary & there's no tension or excitement to be found anywhere. Disappointingly it's not even that graphic either, there isn't a drop of blood in it until the very end as someone gets shot & someone falls out of a third storey window. There's a fair amount of female nudity in it but once you see a woman's bit's & pieces it grows old very quickly. The sex is also relatively tame, this is strictly softcore all the way. To be honest if you want porn simply buy a proper hardcore porno, it'll give you more enjoyment than Dværgen ever will.Technically Dværgen is pretty damned poor, this is an eyesore in fact with horrible photography including jerky camera pans & zooms & lousy production values to boot. The acting sucks as well from a cast of unknowns who thankfully have remained that way ever since.Dværgen is a poor film only saved by it's sleazy storyline, anyone looking for a mainstream film then Dværgen will be your worst nightmare while anyone looking for some good exploitation will find Dværgen disappointingly slow & tame. Not a film I could, or indeed would, recommend. Dværgen is one that you can safely give a miss.

THE SINFUL DWARF is another 70's era exploit/weirdy that really defies explanation. I will say that it's slow moving and doesn't really pick up til the end, but the whole concept is twisted enough to warrant a look at this one...Olaf the dwarf (who another reviewer nailed it when he said that this freak looks like a psychotic version of a squished Jack Black...) and his mother run a boarding house. To supplement the minimal income that taking in boarders offers, they naturally lure young girls to the house with toy dogs, drug them with heroin until they are addicted, and whore them out to the local scumbags. When a couple moves in and the wife starts snooping around, everything goes to hell...THE SINFUL DWARF isn't quite what I expected - as I stated before it's kinda slow and dull at points - but overall I'd say it's a must-see for any sleaze/exploit/sexploit lover. There's plenty of full-frontal nekkidness, and the sleaze-factor gets amped up towards the end as Olaf rapes the wife with his cane, and the last sex scene between client and captive is the strongest of the film. The film plays out kinda as a cross between BLOODSUCKING FREAKS (without the gore) and THRILLER: A CRUEL PICTURE (without smokin' hot Christina Lindberg) - but not as good as either of those films. Worth checkin' out - 7/10