After a completely "what the Hell?" opening narration by two talking foam heads with gaudy cut 'n' paste faces (I'm not kidding; apparently director Lewis threw it in to pad the running time); this tells the tale of some college students getting murdered by a nutty mother/son duo who are using their hair for wigs. On the case is a Nancy Drew-like student while mom talks endlessly to a leopard statue she calls "Napoleon" and son (who's a little slow) enjoys grabbing women and murdering them in gory ways.
Another of Lewis' drive-in gore-a-thons; this is perhaps even worse than Blood Feast with plenty of wooden acting, inept filmmaking skills and completely laughable moments.
While there's one pretty graphic scalping scene near the start the gore is just the usual "red paint and animal parts". Plus thrown into the mix is a drive-in scene where the movie playing is an eating scene that makes no sense (but manages a bunch of sexual innuendos). And where else are you going to see an amusing "stalk the janitor home" scene, a completely out-of-left-field dance scene and victims blink after they're supposedly dead; but in a HG Lewis movie? This one's bad.
Directed By: Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Written By: A. Louise Downe.
Starring: Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells, Chris Martell, Rodney Bedell.
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