Deranged killer Luther Watts (Edward Terry) is given parole and immediately returns to his favourite pastimes: acting like a chicken and chewing out the throats of people with his metal dentures. Making his way to a remote farmhouse, he terrorises the occupants, mother Hilary (Joan Roth), her scrumdiddlyumptious teenage daughter Beth (Stacy Haiduk) and Beth's boyfriend Rob (Thomas Mills).What Luther the Geek lacks in the way of densely plotted narrative, it more than makes up for in boobs, blood, and sheer nastiness. Those who enjoy a spot of female nudity to go with their horror will be delighted by a completely gratuitous shower scene in which Beth is joined by the understandably eager Rob. Miss Haiduk's ample charms are what the rewind and pause buttons were invented for. As far as the gore goes, there are lots of ragged, spurting neck wounds, Rob has his still beating heart and guts torn from his body, and a rather inept cop (Jerry Clarke) gets his finger bitten off before he too has his throat ventilated. And what could be more mean spirited than the lovely Beth being brutally beaten to death by the clucking maniac? I was genuinely upset (what a waste!).Director Carlton J. Albright achieves quite a bit of tension in the last act, in which Hilary and the cop decide to fight back, and even though this dread is derived from some extremely questionable decisions by both characters, it works well enough. In a delightfully absurd finale, a mentally fragile Hilary converses with Luther in chicken speak, an act that causes the killer to strut around like a proud cockerel, and which gives the poor woman just enough time to reach for her rifle.

LUTHER THE GEEK is the usual indie-trash comedy horror nonsense put out by Troma, about a killer who wears metal teeth to bite his victims and goes around clucking like a chicken due to childhood trauma. It's pretty random, it has to be said, but it has a bit more skill behind it than some indies I could mention (namely KILLER NERD), and the crew do a decent job in convincing you of the film's world setting. It's not an overly gory movie although it has its moments, and there's also a gratuitous sex scene added to the mix.

As a child, little hillbilly Luther once witnessed a sideshow geek doin' his thing in a barn and was immediately transfixed by the man's bloody antics. Now Luther is grown and incarcerated on three counts of murder, but he is about to be granted parole...Pretty much as soon as Luther hits the street he mauls an old lady (who for some reason is a young actress made-up to look old) with his razor sharp set of steel dentures, then while on the run from the police, he jumps into a parked car's backseat to hide. Shortly thereafter, the owner of the car, Hilary, hops in and drives home to her secluded farmhouse to prepare dinner for her daughter Beth, and her boyfriend who are soon to be returning home from college for the holidays. Luther's about to have a feast fit for a king! The first thing I noticed about this film is that it looks like it was made in the late 70s-early 80s; with the faded colours, grainy film stock, and overall atmosphere it really feels just like some grimy piece of trash discarded and forgotten about by the local grindhouse (though I loathe to use this now filthy word!). The other thing that immediately sticks out is that its almost a silent film - there is very little dialog aside from the constant clucks, squawks & crows that emit from Luther's mouth as he does his bizarre chicken act.Now to the violence and nudity! There's definitely some bloody scenes here as we witness Luther gorily tear into necks, fingers and chests with his grill, but it's nowhere near as ultra-violent as its reputation / reviews suggest. The only nudity here is from Hilary's daughter, Beth, (TV star Stacy Haiduk who played Lana Lang in the Superboy TV series) who has a lengthy shower scene - of which there is a whole seven more minutes of in the outtakes section for all you sleazefiends - and a sex scene.All in all, a decent semi-slasher flick with plenty of grubby ambiance. Luther is a total freak and it's fun to watch him gore people up and run around like a retarded chicken, especially when he does his wacky victory / death dance after a kill.One major negative with this disc though, is the idiotic Troma extras: first off we have an utterly witless intro to the film with Troma head honcho Lloyd Kaufman introducing Troma's "freakshow" which consists of some fag that pretends to suck Kaufman's dick and another f@ckwit who tries to suck his own cock, but farts instead. These childish attempts at humour are really not funny and had me p!ssed off before the film even started. Aside from the brainless intro there's also Troma extras like a global warming awareness short and a twelve minute PETA propaganda film trying to convince us all to become vegetarians. I really don't think this kinda proselytizing bullshit should be on a DVD - yes, I understand that Kaufman is obviously worried about the environment and a vegetarian who wants to get the message out there, but I'm sure most of us know what goes on in a slaughterhouse and what the short life of a battery hen consists of, why force it onto the unsuspecting public who just wanna watch a campy horror film?

I consider myself a big fan of low budget horror movies. The more bizarre and imaginative the film, the more blood and guts, the better, and i really fall in love with cheaply done flicks if they are done right. Luther starts out well enough... his origin at the circus, a creepy run at a supermarket, an attack of an old lady, and his disturbing occupation of a woman's farmhouse all set the mood nicely. A hot sex/ shower scene ensues when the woman's daughter and daughter's boyfriend arrives at the house. When Luther steals the boyfriends motorbike the movie takes a turn for the worse. The characters are presented with numerous opportunities to: A) save their loved ones, B) get the police to help, C) escape, or (most importantly) D) KILL LUTHER!!! I can't feel empathy or fear for characters that are too stupid to help themselves. Chareters snub chances to arm themselves with guns and knives while Luther is away. A policeman eventually arrives and is equally ineffective in stopping Luther, even though at one point he has a rifle squarely aimed at Luther while Luther clucks and does his rendition of the polish chicken dance. I found myself futilely coaching my television: "Make sure he's dead!", "Hes gone, get out of there!", or "Just kill him already!" Luther is a bloodthirsty savage, but he is hardly Hannibal Lecter. If you can't outsmart this egghead, you deserve what's coming to you. By halfway through the movie you'll be so lethargic to the fates of the half-wits that only morbid curiosity will sustain you to last to the mildly amusing ending. This movie was noted as one of Fangoria's 101 greatest movies you've never seen... well Fangoria is half-right in the case of Luther the Geek.