Saturday, June 14, 2014

The Meateater (1979)

How bad is it? It's incredibly bad.
Should you see it? Yes. It's truly so bad it's good.

This went unnoticed until Elvira's Mystery Macabre showed it and it's still hard to find. A family buys a movie theater that has a Jean Harlow-obsessed killer hiding inside it. Of course, the family has a daughter that looks like Harlow (though only in the mind of the killer, named Milford). The guy eats a rat at the beginning of the film, but doesn't eat any meat later; everyone else does though - there's hilarious pointless references to Oscar Mayer hot dogs (including the jingle) and Jimmy Dean sausages. The police investigate and they're amazingly bad. One cop is named Wombat (!), typical of the laughable nature of the whole film. The film looks like it was written and shot in a few days, all in one location, with amateur actors.

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