Clumsily blending Herschell Gordon Lewis-style splatter with zany silent movie type broad, yet deranged coal black humor, this blithely twisted tale of an unctuous undertaker (a sublimely slimy portrayal by Ray Dannis) and his two restaurant owner buddies who bump off folks to keep their respective businesses afloat plumbs a bottom-scraping all-time low in the annals of dime-store cinema that's a jaw-dropping ghastly marvel to behold. Man, does this honey possess all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four star stinkeroonie: the hopelessly all-thumbs (non)direction by T.L.P. Swicegood (who also wrote the slight cookie cutter script), dreadful acting by a lame no-name cast, the meandering narrative, the garish cinematography, the shoddy gore, and the erratic pacing are all wonderfully wretched. Moreover, there are glorious bits of inspired slapstick featured throughout; the delightful set piece with the undertaker on an out of control skateboard in particular is worthy of Bustor Keaton. Of course, we also get lovely sequences of achingly raw and pure tender beauty, with the infamous scene where a lady victim has her face brutally bashed in with a chain rating as an especially poetic and erotic image of exceptional aesthetic merit. The closing montage with all the murder victims winking and hamming it up for the camera likewise impresses as a positively ingenious example of ahead-of-its-time campy self-awareness. In fact, one can even discern the basic roots of early 70's progressive rock in the funky-throbbing score by Johnny White. One of the finest films to ever grace celluloid.

This movie is awesome. i love old school cinema. i love the absolute cheesiness of this film and how it is proud to flaunt it with no shame at all. My only problem with this movie is i wish it was a little longer. if it were an hour and a half instead of just over an hour they could have added some more gore or some extended funeral home scenes which were really funny in a really mean way. i also found it amusing how two of the girls who were killed and cooked up at the diner happened to have the last names "lamb" and "poultry". I know a lot of you are going to rip on this movie and its too bad cause i find it to be a really unique film for its time or any other time for that matter.give it a shot. if you like it you do and if you don't then you don't.

Campy. Macabre humor and very low-budget. An enterprising undertaker(Ray Dannis) teams with the owners of a greasy spoon diner to carry out a plan to improve his business and expand the menu at the eatery. One of the deceased was named Susie Lamb...so the next day the special of the day was leg of lamb. The violence is actually pretty watered down due to the lack of budget. The humor is mostly sick. The acting is non-existent; but there is some fetching and well shaped female flesh. Typical drive-in fun of the mid 60's. Players include: Robert Lowery, Warrene Ott, Sally Frei, Rick Cooper, Tiffany Sharon O'Hara and James Westmoreland.

I remember this as faint memories when it first hit the drive-in theatres of Pennsylvania back in the 70's while my parents were still married. Dad would pack us all in the station wagon to see whatever was playing - sometimes it was highly inappropriate, like this and "Dr Jekyl and Ms Hyde", both of which I remember only fleeting images of nudity and schlock horror. Thing is - this movie has always stayed with me as a crazy, zany, sexy horror comedy romp. Very "Sweeney Todd", I remember weird things like the guys playing with a girl's innards while she was alive and she wakes up to see them - and it was like ground beef, which never made any sense to me so it stuck in my mind; also the silly names that they gave the meals containing girl meat, like "Breast of Chicken" from Miss Poultry (or something - it's been over 30 years) and "Leg of Lamb". I'd love to see it again just to see what I remember. So many odd flashes from my past.