Oh my God, was this awful! This is one of those movies that I had read about here and there and it seems to me that it was generally referred to as some sort of campy comedy. It tries to sell itself as some sort of black comedy about Auntie Lee (Karen Black) who's bevy of nieces (including Teri Weigel who may look familiar from Playboy or Married with Children or her numerous porno films) seduce young men, bringing them back to the house where they are turned into the raw materials for Auntie's famous and popular meat pies. Tossed in are a dim-witted hired hand and the local sheriff, played by Pat Morita, best known as Arnold on Happy Days and the teacher in the Karate Kid movies.
Granted, this premise has some black comedy potential, but this production doesn't take advantage of it, instead padding out the minimal plot with long, meandering conversations and long, meandering shots. For instance, did we really need to see a group of people get out of their car and walk ALL THE WAY up the stairs to the house and then in to the house and then a few seconds of the house after they went inside? Or when a car speeds off down a road in the woods, after the car drives all the way out of sight, the camera stays on the shot of the woods for what seems like 30 whole seconds! There are several sequences of the girls poorly attempting to use sexual innuendo, but they all seemed to be striking a pose as they were droning out their inane lines. In b-movie terms, the film could've at least filled the gaps between the boring scenes with some nudity and gore, after all, you've got a bunch of sexy women, including a porn star fer crissakes, and guys being ground up into pie filling. But except for a couple of super-brief glimpses of one girl's breasts, everyone keeps their clothes on. The gore scenes, very far and few between, are really cheesy. At dinner one night, they bring out "baby," a full grown woman in a giant stroller who coys and giggles like an infant and is extremely annoying and a huge turn-off in my book. Was this supposed to be sexy? Funny? Well, it was neither. The best thing about this movie is Karen Black who actually made the Auntie Lee character entertaining.
Sorry, folks, but I would say this flick would be a total and complete waste of your time. Skip it, please.
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