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“With deadpan black humour and cheesey special effects, Pendergast has come up with a film that subverts just about everything traditional cinephiles hold dear … an experience not to be missed.” – Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun
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Ragnarok over at The Tomb of Anubis gave Kill Them and Eat Them a review which I must say is pretty spot-on, in my opinion anyway. Here’s an excerpt:
[...] Funny how one good location, or one good actor (because while Sandy McDonald has only this one movie to his credit, he either does a lot of stage work or just knows what the hell he’s doing), or one talented dude in the FX department, can raise a movie above its station and make a seasoned veteran of crap-watching like me take notice. [...] Not only are the set pieces and the plot light-years ahead of KTaET’s super-independent movie brethren in terms of complexity; this flick gives us not only killer mutant cannibals ripping people’s faces off, it gives us not one, but two killer mutant cannibal vs. killer mutant cannibal slugfests. Granted, the monsters look like the retarded incest babies of the Creeper from Jeepers Creepers and one of the hotdog-mouthed fish beasts from Horror of Party Beach, but that’s still way more monster-on-monster action than the first Alien vs. Predator had, goddammit!
Read the whole review here.
If you’re ready to part with fifty bucks to get 100 movies that, amazingly, total only 108 hours and 34 minutes (or about 65 minutes a movie) then why not pony up the dough and snag yourself a copy of Bloody Nightmares, another one of these innumerable horror bargain DVD packs cluttering the discount shelves – and the third such collection (that I know of) to include Kill Them and Eat Them (after Depraved Degenerates and Tomb of Terrors). While it may seem like a complete waste of money, it may be handy as you never know when you’ll be struck with the sudden desire to spend more hours than you probably work in two weeks watching straight-to-dvd zero budget horror.
"100 mind-blowing horror films on 24 DVDs make for endless hours of entertainment!" or, more accurately, 108 Hours 34 Minutes of entertainment.
The clever ad copy declares, “Be warned: Bloody Nightmares makes Pandora’s Box look like a gift from the heavens!” . . . Though I believe Pandora’s Box was actually was a gift from Hermes, a god, who presumably resided in the heavens, aka Mount Olympus. So I guess that means Bloody Nightmares makes Pandora’s Box look like exactly what it is. And Pandora’s Box makes Bloody Nightmares look like exactly what it is — that is, something pretty similar, except in Pandora’s Box there was hope.
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from The Baltimore Sun, Wednesday October 15, 2003:
“[...] the opening night of the [MicroCineFest] festival closes with Kill Them and Eat Them, Conall Pendergast’s merry little ode to a world of decaying zombie-types and the world of genetic mutation. With deadpan black humour and cheesy special effects – limbs tend to fall of at the slightest provocation – Pendergast has come up with a film that subverts just about everything traditional cinephiles hold dear.
What we have here is the story of science gone spasmodic, as the demented Dr. Gore (his real name is Williams, but Gore is certainly more appropriate) carries out his experiment. Once gainfully employed by an all-powerful company known as The Company, he bailed when his experiment started raising eyebrows, and is now out to gain his mad-scientist degree on his own. Aided by an assistant even madder than he is, Gore is busy transforming homeless people into decaying “skeletoids” who will do whatever he tells them (including grocery shopping).
Gore, however, has the misfortune of falling a little bit for his latest helpless victim, the lovely Kellin, and tries to reverse the process, slowly turning her into a walking mass of decay. Meanwhile, some folks from The Company are closing in.
The acting is calculatedly amateurish (the entire cast seems to have been fed a steady stream of grade-Z horror films) and the dialogue clunkier than a 1960 Dodge. But the film’s also got plenty of wit; when the evil assistant explains his nefarious plans, he hits one of the best reasons for using cannibalistic zombies to do one’s dirty work: “They’ll conveniently eat the evidence of any wrongdoing.”
Gross, sure. But the whole thing’s a hoot, and watching it with a crowd predisposed to liking this sort of thing – and that’s really what MicroCineFest is all about – is an experience not to be missed.”
- Chris Kaltenbach
