Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This absolutely cheap, shot-on-video outing has little enough enterprise to merit a non-bottom rating, but there's the occasional directorial flourish to warrant a slightly higher score. Director Patrick Mathews knows for sure that he's making a turkey, so he attempts to throw in as much referencing and low brow humour as possible, as well as a couple of stylistic touches – I love the 'room spinning out of control' camera shot which betrays the leading character's deepening insanity.Although the title and plot description make this sound like a gross movie, all we see are a few shots of the lead sitting around picking his nose – that's it. The rest of the story sees him transformed into a girl (no, no special effects or nudity here – for an exploitation film this sure is low on exploitation values) and then bumping off a series of high school teenagers as he gradually loses his sanity.Brief gore comes from shots of our killer eating flesh from the girls he's killed, and the best special effects are when a girl's fingers are chopped off and a transvestite prostitute has his throat slit. Otherwise things are pretty boring, with bad acting all around – although I can't help but kind of liking the main guy – and the only person coming across as half professional is the detective. Add to this a lame twist ending, completely inept music, and a total lack of plot focus and pacing, and you have one bizarre, boring film.

Wow...I'm surprised at all the negativity being shown towards this film. I'm not usually a fan of bad movies, but The Nostril Picker is a hilarious film that manages to take a good idea for an exploitation movie, completely mess it up, and somehow come back around and make a good movie out of it. Well...I say a good movie, I actually mean that only in terms of the comedy value of it because as a piece of film-making; this is shockingly bad! The plot has all kinds of possibilities (some of which are dealt with) and focuses on a loser named Joe. Joe lives on his own and constantly gets knocked back by women; until one day when he gets a piece of luck in the form of a vagabond who tells him that he can give him the power of 'morphosynthesis', a process by which Joe can have the appearance of anything he wants. Well, Joe wants people to think he's a teenage girl, so he starts calling himself Josephine and manages to get himself into a school, where he's allowed to perv on the real girls without anyone suspecting a thing. However, he soon develops a murderous bloodlust...The Nostril Picker really is bizarre movie; not just the plot line but in the way that things are portrayed; the best example being the way that the central characters appears as a girl to everyone but the audience The characters in the movie see him as a young girl, but we the audience sees him simply as Joe; and thus what we get is a forty year old man hanging around with a load of teenage girls and being referred to as 'miss', and it seeming completely normal. This of course is little more than an amusing gimmick and the film doesn't really manage to make itself interesting outside of this plot, but this is adequately masked by a handful of real stand out scenes. A five minute montage featuring Joe hanging around with girls to the track "Gonna Get Me Some Schoolin" is hilarious; as is the sequence that sees Joe chasing a transvestite prostitute around his flat, holding a dildo and calling the prostitute a pervert! The subsequent police interview is hilarious also. The special effects are ridiculous; with plenty of fake blood splattering about the place. The film does attempt some character building by giving us an idea of the lead character's background, but it's not exactly deep stuff. It's also unbelievable that this film was released as recently as 1993. I can only assume it was sitting around in director Mark Nowicki's basement for ten years before he could find anyone who would release it. However, despite its numerous problems; The Nostril Picker is a lot of fun at least and while it won't appeal to everyone; bad movie junkies especially will find plenty to like here! It and even manages to deliver a shock ending!

When I ordered the Nostril Picker on DVD, I didn't know what to expect. The cover is rather misleading as the apparent artistic humour does not pertain to the nature of the film. One would think that The Nostril Picker would be a guy who picks his nose throughout the film or that he may incorporate nostril picking in his murders...this is not the case - he only picks it 3 times in the whole movie, but that's not why I bought it. It is the story of a man who is lonely and cannot get any women. He meets a hobo outside a bus-stop and he is given a chant to turn him into a woman whenever he chooses. 'This is perfect', thinks Ugly Joe, The Nostril Picker, 'for killing those women who constantly reject me'. He befriends all the girls who ever laughed at him and mocked him and they see him as a young girl - the camera still shows Ugly Joe! But Ugly Joe is not just happy with a false friendship, he wants their blood! He proceeds to systematically kill each and every girl from a particular group. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the film and I couldn't take how scary it was in parts. I would recommend this film to any serious horror fan as it belongs on your DVD shelf along with Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist, The Wicker Man and The Shining.

Let me tell you this. This is THE video nasty you need to get. The acting is the worst I have ever seen! I saw kids in the remedial class at school put together better films than this in GSE! The special effects genuinely give you that real image.... - of someone, at the side of the set, throwing ketchup across the place!! It is the worst made 'horror' movie I have ever seen, but then don't all real movie buffs get off watching Plan 9 from outer Space, and Glen or Glenda? Edward D Wood jnr had his failures, all of which ended up as cult classics in the 21st century, and if you are into this kind of rubbish, The Nostril Picker is now on general release in the UK, in the 'His Masters Voice' stores, in the 'under a fiver' budget range. The basic storyline is that a layabout weirdo offers his stash to a local hobo living in a box behind a bus shelter, in exchange for the hobo's secret knowledge regarding a voodoo chant he heard in an underpass some time, that once recited, turns a man into a female of his choice. Whether he picks his nostril or not during the chant is unimportant. He can then go on using his female 'cloak' and murder whoever he wants without the authorities discovering him - unless he is photographed. If he is, his real identity will be discovered. Oh, and if he recites the chant too many times, he will go crazy. Sounds crazy? It is! Beyond belief. It is truly so poorly made, you can not watch it without the edges of your mouth curling upward. I have never seen the end of this film, but I have put it on so many times, I have lost count. You won't get to the end because you will fall asleep - laughing. And, you will have a DVD title, no-one else you know has! The Nostril Picker is truly a triumph amongst bad taste films. Did I mention that the sound is so poor you will swear you saw the kid recording it on set with his tape recorder? Or that the end credits have the usual - Gaffer, Best Boy, Make Up, AND - Weak Story Development.? Get this film. Most serious film-ers love to hate it - or hate to love it. I love it and it is the pride of my DVD collection!!!