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| Year: | 1987 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Jackie Kong |
| Genre: | Cannibal / Comedy |
| Starring: | Ricks Burks, Carl Crew |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092669/ |
| Tagline: | First they greet you, then they eat you. |
| Favourite line: | "I'm so horny I could fuck a cow." |
Horror comedy.
Now that's a tricky formula to pull off. Many have tried, few have succeeded. For every 'Shaun of the Dead' there's an 'An American Werewolf in Paris', know what I mean?
This one gets it about half right.
The plot is the purest nonsense:
A mad scientist winds up disembodied, a brain in a jar, if you will, and decides that the only thing to do is to construct a perfect female specimen in order to revive an ancient She-God who goes by the name of Sheetar. He enlists the help of a pair of cannibal locals, and the bits of the women they don't use go into the food at the diner they run, making their veggie burgers by far the best in town.
Cue loads of ridiculous gore and general mayhem.
There are some wonderfully odd moments; the naked woman who 'turns' - one minute victim, the next karate chopping avenger; the guitar playing Hitler's and the stomach with teeth, but there's also a fair amount of slapstick which is less welcome.
A mixed bag, but far from rubbish and, in its own weird way, quite original.
Enjoyable if flawed.
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