Some people call this a cult classic. Usually that means cheap and bad, and in that sense this movie is what you'd expect. For me, this was a curiosity - a movie filmed in the small town in which I now live. And while the town has changed a lot since 1973, there are still parts of it I recognized. But aside from satisfying that little bit of local-pride curiosity, there was nothing about this to get very excited about.
We discover from the start that the fictional town of Farnhamville has a problem. There's a weird Reverend who seems to control three pretty young girls, and they have a thing for cannibalism. Into the town for some time away stumble a young couple (played by Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) who get caught up in the "horror."
As you'd expect from a movie starring Levy and Martin, this movie often tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to get some laughs out of viewers, and when it's failing to do that it's not really that frightening. It does have a fair bit of gore, and several totally unnecessary topless scenes featuring those three pretty young girls. It also has a story that never really makes much sense, and with acting that was - even from Levy and Martin - mostly atrocious, it was painful and at times impossible to stick with this.
Cult classic? Yup, if by that you mean it's so bad that it's hard to figure out why anyone would want to take the time to watch it. (2/10)
We discover from the start that the fictional town of Farnhamville has a problem. There's a weird Reverend who seems to control three pretty young girls, and they have a thing for cannibalism. Into the town for some time away stumble a young couple (played by Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin) who get caught up in the "horror."
As you'd expect from a movie starring Levy and Martin, this movie often tries (mostly unsuccessfully) to get some laughs out of viewers, and when it's failing to do that it's not really that frightening. It does have a fair bit of gore, and several totally unnecessary topless scenes featuring those three pretty young girls. It also has a story that never really makes much sense, and with acting that was - even from Levy and Martin - mostly atrocious, it was painful and at times impossible to stick with this.
Cult classic? Yup, if by that you mean it's so bad that it's hard to figure out why anyone would want to take the time to watch it. (2/10)