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| Year: | 1988 |
| Country of origin: | France / Belgium / Holland |
| Director: | Emmanuel Kervyn |
| Genre: | Gory granny mayhem |
| Starring: | Catherine Aymerie, Caroline Braeckman, Richard Cotica, Danielle Daven, Patricia Davia, Robert Du Bois |
| Rating: | 5/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098157/ |
| Tagline: | Grandma, What a Big Mouth You Have! |
| Favourite line: | N/A - Subtitled |
This is absolutely demented.
This Belgian horror movie - a curiosity in itself - centres around an aristocratic family who gather at a dinnner party, mainly to brook favour from the two old biddies whose wills they hope to profit from.
And a grisly selection of inbreeds they are, too, each and every one utterly despicable; greedy, selfish and without a single redeeming feature.
As the dinner party gets into full swing amid eventful conversation, the grannies inadvertantly drink some wine tainted by a chemical which has the unfortunate side effect of transforming them into savage, flesh eating demons that set to devouring their dinner guests! And it's a riot.
The acting is absolutely shocking - seriously, some of the worst I have ever seen - and the dubbing near unbearable, but the only reason you or I are watching this movie is for the gore, and this delivers the goods in a way only Peter Jackson's Braindead can claim to live up to. Heads split in two, limbs are lopped off with gay abandon and, in one moment of utter genius, a man is eaten from the arse up.
Visceral doesn't even come close to doing this justice.
If sickly of stomach or totally sound of mind, I would recommend you avoid this blood spattered treat but, for the rest of us, this is a genuine pleasure.
Just great.
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