The Undertaker and His Pals

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Summary: IT SHOULD HAVE WON AN OSCAR!
Review: ...Well, this film is FAR FAR from that, but it is entertaining! Way to go to VCI for offering us interesting DVD's for people bored of Hollywood garbage they continue to pump on us. Hey folks, the film is CHEAPO, but it's entertaining...The foot in the meat grinder is pretty grizzly...a very high splatter count! Also this DVD contains the original theatrical trailer (AMAZING!) and some other horror trailers that VCI has their hands on! Grab the credit card, this is a fun disk. The print is so-so, but it's adds to the "feel" of the film man! Pirate copies have floated around years before, but now get a legit one that looks awesome. GRAB IT!!!

Rating:
Summary: IT SHOULD HAVE WON AN OSCAR!
Review: ...Well, this film is FAR FAR from that, but it is entertaining! Way to go to VCI for offering us interesting DVD's for people bored of Hollywood garbage they continue to pump on us. Hey folks, the film is CHEAPO, but it's entertaining...The foot in the meat grinder is pretty grizzly...a very high splatter count! Also this DVD contains the original theatrical trailer (AMAZING!) and some other horror trailers that VCI has their hands on! Grab the credit card, this is a fun disk. The print is so-so, but it's adds to the "feel" of the film man! Pirate copies have floated around years before, but now get a legit one that looks awesome. GRAB IT!!!

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Summary: BORING MOVIE AND POOR SCRIPT
Review: Eating human flesh makes for easy jokes. This movie has almost none. They seem to be more concerned about gore, which is boring as hell. Also, a movie like this needs at least one good horror or comedy actor. This film has none! Since many of the acters have appeared in major productions, the acting is acceptable. So, it's not funny in a SO BAD IT'S GOOD ED WOOD vain. There are better films to spend your money on!

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Summary: A blast from the past.
Review: I saw this movie back when it was showing on the big screen (outdoors at a drive-in: for those of you under thirty years old, yes they really did exist!) I spent the whole time in stitches. This movie is a real hoot! Unfortunately the tape is of poor quality, although that is to be expected with a film of this type; yet it is certainly watchable. And still very funny. After seeing this movie you will never feel quite the same about dining out...or funeral homes...or, well, life in general. It's a slasher movie, but not your run of the mill type. Actually it's a "cut" above the rest (oh no, there goes my sharp wit again.) I won't spoil it by telling you anything about the plot. You'll have to watch it if you want to know.

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Summary: This film ROCKS!
Review: It seems with most old B-horror films, the trailer is better than the actual film. Not this time! The trailer is great, but the film is 100 times better. The best part is the autopsy scene with the undertaker's pals, Doc and Spike. Very funny! The best line is Doc's,as he's playing with a victim's guts, "Isn't she beautiful inside?" The soundtrack's great too.

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Summary: This film ROCKS!
Review: It seems with most old B-horror films, the trailer is better than the actual film. Not this time! The trailer is great, but the film is 100 times better. The best part is the autopsy scene with the undertaker's pals, Doc and Spike. Very funny! The best line is Doc's,as he's playing with a victim's guts, "Isn't she beautiful inside?" The soundtrack's great too.

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Summary: the 1967 version was more to it than this one
Review: the 1967 version was much more gorier than this one , it showed the girl on the fence without boobs and that was for the breast of chicken, the leg of lamb well there was more to it than it is now , all in all the movie has left out a lot of parts since i saw it in 1967 myself.the movie now is just fast and dumb. i have it on vhs and dvd, and neither one of them are like it was in 1967,, but oh well if you want it in your collection i would advise to buy it , for a much cheaper price then most have of course,,good luck and enjoy,,,,,

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Summary: the 1967 version was more to it than this one
Review: the 1967 version was much more gorier than this one , it showed the girl on the fence without boobs and that was for the breast of chicken, the leg of lamb well there was more to it than it is now , all in all the movie has left out a lot of parts since i saw it in 1967 myself.the movie now is just fast and dumb. i have it on vhs and dvd, and neither one of them are like it was in 1967,, but oh well if you want it in your collection i would advise to buy it , for a much cheaper price then most have of course,,good luck and enjoy,,,,,

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Summary: So very, very bad.
Review: The Undertaker and His Pals (T. L. P. Swicegood, 1967)

Swicegood, a writer for the TV series The Untouchables, took the directorial helm for the first time with The Undertaker and His Pals. It was the last anyone in Hollywood heard from him; not only his directorial career, but his writing career, vanished. It is not that hard to see why.

The Undertaker and His Pals is a beach comedy away from the beach, a softcore film without the sex. It certainly starts out with a shock; a woman is stalked by three masked motorcycle riders, then is attacked and killed, after which her legs are severed. The gore effects, for 1967, are stunning, and must have been shocking in the extreme to a pre-Night of the Living Dead audience. Unfortunately, Swicegood must have figured he couldn't get away with a whole film of such effects, and the explicit, deliciously shocking nature of the first scene is never to be found again. The movie descends into sixty-three minutes of slapstick, a Cro-Magnon version of Airplane! with cannibalism, but no one who can act nearly as well as Robert Hays. (And that's really saying something.)

Yes, the film is only sixty-three minutes long. And the crowning touch on this monkey is that even though the film is so short, it still has to resort to the old puff-out-the-time trick of repeating scenery. If you cut out the filler, the movie would probably have been forty-five minutes long. Which would not have been a bad thing. Much of the forty-five minutes are filled with actresses from sex comedies wearing as little as possible and silly special effects (there is one, about halfway through the film, that looks out-of-place, but is the only time during its length the movie comes even close to the power of the first sequence).

Probably good for a laugh, if you're under the influence, but otherwise, avoid it. * ½

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Summary: Crazy Creeps Kill And Cook In Kooky Cult Classic!
Review: THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS is about a trio of bikers (Doc, Spike, and Mort) who live only to find unwary citizens to slaughter in grizzly ways. This is both logical and beneficial to our three fiends, since Doc and Spike add certain severed limbs of their victims to the menu of their diner (The Greasy Spoon), and Mort is a mortician who charges the victims' families big bucks to dispose of the leftovers. Our merry band of psychos have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, but boy are they hilarious! Just check out the "coffin" Mort puts on display for his bargain funeral! Enter detective Harry Glass, inept sleuth with a face that is best described as a James Brolin / Adam West hybrid. His gift seems to be getting beautiful assistants murdered without noticing. For the year it was made, TUAHP is a gorehounds dream. Fortunately, there is so much jet-black humor that the intentionally excessive bloodletting becomes (almost) funny. Highly recommended for adults only...