It’s a rare movie these days that actually makes my jaw drop over gore, and this movie wins if only for making me do exactly that more than a few times over its duration. It’s as badly acted and cheesy as the other HG Lewis movies I’ve watched over the year, but alongside Two Thousand Maniacs it’s really the only one I’m ever likely to watch again.

The gore really is astoundingly vile, lol, and it’s incredible how like the old Lewis movies it really feels, despite being made decades after – like, these days, we still have bad acting in movies, but somehow Lewis managed to cast people here who deliver a whole different class of bad acting. I think that’s perhaps why it works better than the older ones for me; like, the reproduction of that feel of almost 40 years previous is almost a gimmick in itself … and 5 years before Tarantino’s Grindhouse, you’ve kinda gotta put your hands together for an near-80-year-old who can still deliver something so schlocky. It almost makes me want to check out the others again. The John Waters cameo is icing on the cake

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