IGOR AND THE LUNATICS is the usual slice of Troma trash that makes little sense as a proper film. The plot is supposedly about a criminal gang leader who is released from prison and arrives in a small town, seeking revenge by having his goons terrorise the townsfolk. The opening scene is the most memorable part of it, including a topless girl being bisected by a circular saw, although for some bizarre reason this whole sequence is subsequently repeated (a cheap a way of padding out the running time as ever I've seen).The film is the usual mish-mash of bad editing and wooden acting, only coming to life towards the end when it becomes a kind of revenge thriller. Some of the practical gore effects aren't too bad, but IGOR AND THE LUNATICS is definitely a barrel-scraping movie otherwise.

"Igor and the Lunatics" is a totally inept and amateurish attempt at a crazy-hippie-cult-killing-spree horror movie. Apparently even nearly twenty years later, Charles Manson was still inspiring overenthusiastic but incompetent trash-filmmakers. This is a typical Troma production, meaning in other words, there's a lot of boring and totally irrelevant padding footage to accompany the nonsensical plot. There's a bit of random gore and gratuitous nudity on display – which isn't bad – but it's all so very pointless and ugly that it becomes frustrating to look at. "Igor and the Lunatics" is so desperate that it's even using a lot of the footage twice, like the circle saw killing for example. The incoherent plot tries to tell the story of a hippie cult run by the drug-addicted and Charlie Manson wannabe Paul. One of Paul's lower ranked disciples, named Igor, becomes a little bit too obsessed with the Bible stories and drug orgies and gradually causes the entire cult to descent further into criminal insanity. Just to illustrate through a little example exactly how crazy Igor is: he tears the heart straight out of the chest of a really sexy black hitch-hiker girl! There's an annoying synthesizer soundtrack and some truly embarrassingly lame pseudo-artistic camera tricks, like slow-motion footage and lurid dream sequences. Maybe there's one sequence that more or less qualifies as worthwhile for trash fanatics and that' is when a poor girl is cut in half with a machete. For no particular reason, the camera holds the shot of the blade in the bloodied stomach for fifteen whole seconds.

First off, the title character is not even the main character of the movie. He is the sidekick of the cult leader. The actor who portrays Igor believed that screaming loud, laughing hysterically, and having a crooked smile while bugging out your eyes would be an excellent way to scare people. Igor also had the annoying habit of yelling (because he never actually just spoke) in a high pitched voice. He would also say idiotic one-liners. For example when the cult leader murders one of his followers with a buzz saw, Igor upon seeing this, yells out "Paul! No Paul! Why'd you do it? I could have cut her clean! So clean!" In another scene Igor tells a victim that she would have to 'get her own tools for surgery because right now, it was his time to operate.' Aside from the bad acting, the ending did not make sense because while the story builds up what little steam it has towards the climax, which is Igor getting a crossbow arrow to the head and the rest of his lunatic buddies being killed, he shows up again two more times to kill the remaining 'good guys'. The movie offers no explanation of this, only telling the viewer that Igor escaped from the mental hospital. What??? Bottom line is do not waste your time watching this movie. I wish I could get back the moments I lost watching this.

My name is Peter Iasillo and I played the part of the hippie "Felix" in the opening shots of "Igor and the Lunatics". The film was originally titled "Like Father" and this was my first time acting in a movie. The scene I was in was directed by Brendan Faulkner (Spookies) as were most of the "action and horror" sequences. In the film, Brendan is the goofy, bearded deputy and director Tom Doran is his partner. Many of the actors that appeared in Igor also appeared in "Spookies" including Peter Dain and Joan Ellen Delaney. The buzz saw scene was filmed at Schultz's Cider Mill in Brewster, NY as were all the scenes for the never released "Killer Dead" also directed by Faulkner and Doran. (SPOLIER ALERT) "Igor & The Lunatics" may well be the only film in history were the girl is cut in half by a buzz saw without being rescued by the hero in the nick of time. A plastic torso filled with fake blood and guts was used for the girl to be cut in half. When it came time to shot the gag, the torso lurched upwards when the buzz saw hit it making it chillingly realistic looking.