Thursday, August 4, 2011

The undertaker should get pals to bury this one

The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
Starring: Rad Fulton (aka James Westmoreland), Ray Dannis, Warrene Ott, Marty Friedman, and Sally Frei
Director: T.L.P. Swicegood
Rating: One of Ten Stars

A crooked undertaker (Dannis) and his psychopathic greasy-spoon-owning friends drum up business by invading the homes of beautiful young women and murdering them. The cooks take parts of bodies and serve them in the restaurant, while the undertaker overcharges the families for buring the remaining remains. It's a great scheme, until they target the secretary of private eye Jim Glass (Fulton) and twin sex-pots Thursday and Friday (Ott).



Writing that summary is about all the time I intend to spend on this movie. I almost feel apologetic that I made you read it. You've probably never heard of or seen this miserable failure at making a black comedy, and I encourage you to keep it that way.

To say this movie is crap is an insult to fertilizer. The One Star rating is very generous, and it's based solely on the fact that the film does have a couple of good gags... but they are the sort of gags that a 12 year old would think up scribbling in his notebook while bored in class.


2 comments:

  1. But what did you think of the movie, Steve? :) I haven't seen it in a long time but I don't remember being all that enamored with it, either.

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  2. Can't disagree with you on the movie. The trailer is a lot of fun, though! And watched projected with a happy and into-it college crowd with lots of talking at the screen - as I was lucky enough to see it for the first time - made it plenty more palatable than subsequent viewings in my house alone or with a friend or two. On the money as usual, SM!

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