Honey Britches aka Demented Death Farm Massacre. This is nothing more than z-grade hick trash - yes it really is a hicksploitation film. The beginning was a little bit funny - I even spewed my drink on my clothing I laughed that hard - but it went down hill from there.There are some very pretty women prancing around in underwear and 2-piece bathing suits, guys speaking with their dirty thoughts (minus one who calls them Jezebel while eyeballing them), lot of bad acting and exaggerated hick accents.Thin, thin plot. Bad, bad acting. Very few laughs. And a very tired looking John Carradine who was only in the film briefly. I started fast-forwarding and skimming through this trash film about half way through it to get to the "good stuff" which is not good at all.1/10
... View MoreFour jewel thieves(Karen, Kirk, Phillip, Susan) steal a jeep and end up in Hillbilly Country. They abandon the jeep on the side of the road, walk through the woods which seems like eons until they spot a small farm house in the middle of nowhere. They hide out there till the heat cools down. A dim - witted wife (Reba Sue Craven) and her religious alcoholic old man (Harlan P. Craven)live there and boy they are boring. Harlan gets drunk on his own moonshine and religiously listens to radio sermons. Reba is emotional wrecked and she just wants to get laid but drunk hubby is not giving her any loving. Kirk, who doesn't have an off button, eventually nails Reba. Kirk's girlfriend gets wind of this and she gets into a scuffle with Reba. Reba kills his girlfriend with a planter (I could be wrong; memory doesn't serve me well on this. I do apologize.)FAST FORWARD: Kirk wants in on Harlan's moonshine business so Harlan stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a pitchfork. Harlan and his doofus partner, Tobe, freak out and leave in the stolen jeep. Phillip gives chase. The boys run out of gas and hide out in the woods. Phillip hunts them down like the animals they are and only Tobe dies thanks to a bear trap that Harlan put there last year. Harlan, drunk off his ass and holding on to a makeshift walking stick gets down on his knees and prays to god to get him out of this. Phillip eventually catches up to Harlan. Harlan beats the life out of Phillip with the walking stick. Harlan hobbles back home happy he survived the life and death situation. All is lost however when Reba gets greedy and off screen shoots and kills Harlan. I guess diamonds are a girl's best friend. John Carradine spews out quotes from the bible in between scenes. There is no gore unless you count the red paint on the actor's faces. PG - 13 at best.
... View MoreAfter a group of jewel thieves pull off a daring robbery,their getaway car runs out of fuel in the middle of the countryside.They wander into a backwoods farm hoping to hide out for the time being.However when the farmer returns home only to find the thieves taking over the house he hatches a deadly plan.This 1971 hicksploitation flick was originally made by Donn Davidson and released as "Honey Britches".Fred Olen Ray purchased the rights to "Honey Britches",shot some pointless footage with John Carradine and then sold the film to Troma.There is a bit of gore including fairly nasty pitchfork murder plus some nudity and hilarious rednecks.6 out of 10.
... View MoreAnother almost unknown '70s "B" cl-ass-sick from Florida.Shot in Dade City for about $5.37.John Carradine has been cut into the film for narration and has nothing to do with the plot at all,a lot like 'the Smoker' in "Blood Freak".It's fun to watch him flub a line or two.What's wrong? Can't read the cue card? Oh well.leave it in.No use in wasting film...Must have been put in later by Troma(?) as he's not in the final credits,which is done with filmed chalk on boards...wow.. guess they didn't want to have to pay a lab!Cheezy catsup almost-but-not-quite gore,moonshine,cleavage,and bad so called hillbilly dialog are what's in store here.For fans of the "B"/ exploitation/southern drive-in,and hillbilly type films only.Then again,if that wasn't your thing then you wouldn't have known to look up a film called "Demented Death Farm Massacre/Honey Britches " in the first place,right?I found it to be a fun little film to watch.I could have done without the 'everybody slap the females around for no reason' shots.I don't mind if 'ya wana cut em up into little pieces (sorry, folks none of that here. If that's what your after.) but,let's not be cruel and make it look like normal behavior... please.Pick one up.Esp. if you can find the $14 "Toxie's Triple Terror vol #1" DVD set with "Curse of the Cannibal Confederates" a.k.a. "Curse of the Screaming Dead"(don't let that scare you away if you don't like it.) "Death Farm..." is a much better film,then again that's not too hard to do..lol, and "Deadly Daphanie's Revenge"(makes a fine coaster)6.75/10 on the drive-in freak-o-meter....check it out...8)
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