Smell the Movies
Smell the TV
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| Year: | 1976 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Joel M. Reed |
| Genre: | Sadism |
| Starring: | Seamus O'Brien, Luis De Jesus |
| Rating: | 5/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077247/ |
| Tagline: | Join The Fun!... Human Dart Boards... "Home Style Brain Surgery"... Dental Hijinks! |
| Favourite line: | "Her mouth shall make an interesting urinal!" |
Fucking hell fire!!
What on Earth was that I just watched?!?
Sardu is a sado-masochist who just happens to run a stage show called The Theatre of the Macabre.
Ralphus is his assistant, a midget with a sadistic streak and a taste for blood. Together they prepare shows which the audience think are make believe, but which are in fact (drum roll please), reality.
Women - usually naked - are tortured and dismembered live on stage, and the audience applaud wildly.
None stop sleave, gore and violence from start to finish, if you can cope with the extreme levels of misogyny on display, you're in for a treat.
Distributed by Troma - truly the masters of the exploitation flick - this is a tour de force of bad taste: Feral women in a cage eating human flesh, thumb screws, dismemberments, whipping, beheadings, this has the lot.
The lead characters are a joy, and really seem to be having a good time in their roles. There's a good line in black comedy too, and the matter of fact way they carry on with their sick and sordid business is nothing if not entertaining.
Not for the faint hearted, this is an exploitation cult classic.
Loved it.
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