Talking to a family about Horror movies that I've recently viewed,I was happily caught by surprise,when he passed me a Grindhouse double bill.Checking the running times,I found out that one of the titles was only 63 minutes long,which led to me deciding that it would be the perfect time to meet the undertaker.The plot:Breaking into her apartment,a biker gang kill Sally Lamb.At the funeral the undertaker reveals to the Lamb family that he had to give Sally plastic legs,due to the gang having chopped her legs off.As the funeral is taking place, detective Harry Glass visits a local café,where the special of the day is "Leg of Lamb."Finding the meat to taste odd,Glass starts to investigate the café,which opened shortly after the funeral parlour started to have a sudden rush in booming business.View on the film:Cut down from its original running time,writer/director T.L.P. Swicegood cooks up a bonkers mix of grisly splatter and Silent-Movie style skits.Made on a very low budget, Swicegood gives the screenplay a deep[ Black Comedy cut,as modern day Sweeney Todd's slaughter any dame that catches their sight.Whilst he stacks the bodies high, Swicegood gives the splashes of blood a washed-up,dry appearance.which gives the movie a rather strange Kitsch atmosphere,which is joined by very funny, wooden performances,as Glass meets the undertakers pals.

Now don't get me wrong. There are amazing big budget movies obviously. There's nothing wrong with only liking well produced movies. But, if you can't appreciate this movie for what it is, your not a fan of cinema (in general). Your probably more of a fan of well produced cinema. There's really nothing wrong with this movie. It doesn't pretend to be anything that it isn't. It's a bad, low budget, goofy slasher flick. At times it is actually funny (in my opinion) like towards the end when the undertaker is chasing "Thursday" up the same staircase over and over again. And this movie is pretty brutal and graphic for its time. Like the live surgery scene. My final thought is, if you rate this movie less than 5 stars or consider it "a waste of life and time" why did you watch it in the first place? You knew what you were getting into. Stick to the matrix or avatar or whatever your really are into and quit wining about the crappy movie that no one forced you to watch.

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.

The Undertaker And His Pal's is a short & sweet, light-hearted, dark-humored, 60's gore film that actually turns out to be more entertaining than most from this era, although, it ain't no 2000 Maniacs, and it can be a bit overly silly at times, so we're not talking about a "10" here or anything, but it is uniquely cartoonish, and there is more than enough entertainment to go around, as a smug, overcharging Undertaker and two restaurant owners cut corners by going out on the town at night and killing people. The greasy-spoon boys have plenty of free meat to serve the (not so) unsuspecting customers and Mr. Taker charges the grieving families an arm and a leg for a half-ass burial. Certainly not the all-time greatest gore film out there, but like I said, it gets much worse than the taker. The "gore" is mostly stock footage, nothing impressive on that side of the fence , but the bottom line is, The Undertaker And His Pals is just plain fun, which, ultimately, is what matters most in Exploitation Country. Besides not being at all boring, The Undertaker And His Pals doesn't wear out its welcome at a running time at just over an hour. Even that little bird-man from The Corpse Grinders makes a cameo, so you know you're in for a treat this time. For something else that obviously belongs in the Something Weird Video catalog but isn't, check out Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things, and for more in humorous restaurant exploitation, check out Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead. As for the taker, I would recommend to anyone who even remotely digs the B-entertainment. 8/10