This always quirky, sometimes funny, sometimes dark, and sometimes misses film isn't a masterpiece. But, certain scenes make it worth watching. The exchange between Baldwin and Jones is one of those scenes. Gabriela is obsessed with violent crime. When she sees an ad on TV from a crime scene cleaning company she quickly contacts them to get a job with them. She is reluctantly hired and quits her other job. It gets somewhat slow at this point, but a key scene is when her partner complains about Gabriela's childlike behavior. The juxtaposition of Gabriela's demeanor, the crime scene, and her happy salsa music is a strange combination indeed. It sometimes works and it is sometimes grating. William Baldwin as Paul Guell is actually quite brilliant and doesn't get enough credit. You have no idea how much it pains me to write that. But, anyway here it is. He has a very difficult job to do here and he pulls it off and makes it look easy. He has to be a menacing serial killer, check he is very creepy. He has to manage to make it funny somehow as well, check. As mentioned before his exchange with Jones, was well worth watching the movie. He also manages to show some sensitivity, we can almost see into the pit of his dark soul, what motivates him to kill. It does't all work however, there are parts that are so illogical. Aside from the fact that the childlike main character is obsessed with violent crime. Things that would never ever happen in real life. I will have to leave it at that, if you watch the film you will spot at least one glaring example at near the end of the film. The ending will leave you with more questions than this film can answer.

Quentin Tarantino, aglow with the buzz-borne light from the soon-to-be-released "Pulp Fiction," was sitting in a darkened theater with his producer/pal Lawrence Bender, enjoying a short-film festival. The short being screened was called "Curdled," and it was about a Latin woman working for a housekeeping service that specialized in cleaning up crime scenes for murderers and killers. I picture our hydro-cephalic hero QT laughing so loud he annoyed everyone in the theater, including the film's writer/director Reb Braddock.But Braddock needn't have worried. Our fat-headed pop-culture savant got up from his seat when the short was over, sought out Reb and declared, full of his own ego and I can only guess Goobers, "Listen to me, Mr. Braddock, alriiiiiiiight? We're gonna take your short film and make it into a feature, okaaaaaaaaay? You'll write/direct and I'll produce, alriiiiiiiiiiight?"And so the feature-length version of "Curdled" was born. I'm scarcely exaggerating this story because it is the version told by Quentin himself in the film's bonus material. Could any aspiring director refuse the offer of a then white-hot Tarantino? Could you? Unfortunately for us the feature is nothing more than the 10 min. short stretched out over an hour and a half. Which strangely feels like three hours.Thrill as Nothing happens in slow motion. Watch the immediately-attractive Angela Jones (Butch's cabbie in Pulp Fiction) become less and less adorable as sheer boredom numbs your senses. Laugh at a one-joke black comedy that manages to kill the joke after twenty minutes. Rock to a movie so bad its writer/director Reb Braddock never wrote/directed anything ever again. At all.What did we learn today? We learned that short films don't necessarily translate into feature-length. We learned that even Latin women need good story lines to hold onto our attention. And most importantly: If Quentin Tarantino ever approaches you in a theater with greazy fingers and a shlt-eating grin you need to evacuate the premises as soon as possible.That's what Fire Exits are for.GRADE: D-

Qt. someone overlooked masterpiece, it 's like watching from close-by how the mind of the killer works, you owe it to yourself to like this flick, cause you'll never see anything like it ever, A very nice fairy tale with deadly results A

I really liked this movie, especially the main character. It was really cool linking the similarities between her and Esmerelda Villa Lobos from Pulp Fiction-besides both had Tarantino having some role in them- both characters exhibited an almost childish facination with death and murder. And, I have to admit, Billy Baldwin was really stylish as the Cold Blooded killer. This movie is definitely unique, and a treat to watch.My only complaint is that, the movie, as a whole, is rather strange. It doesn't decide whether to be a dark comedy or some weird, violent romance. It is definitely dark and weird, but never steps into a comfortable niche to decied which one it really is. This really isn't that big of a deal, really, and after awhile, you learn to just forget the analyzation, and just enjoy the madness being thrown at you. This movie is definitely not for everyone, in that the gore is played so casually, as if it were a normal fixture of a room, like a table or a rug. It also has a few scenes that b\c of the conversational build up during the movie about what it's like to see a crime scene for the first time, and the casual way that the gore is treated, it may not be suitable for everyone. However, I enjoyed it b\c of it's pure creativity and of course, wonderful acting by the two main leads. A give it a strong 8/10 stars for having the courage to be different. That is my story and I am sticking to it.