A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.
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- TriviaProduced in 1973 by Lawrence Zazelenchuk, who owned "The 69 Drive-In" on Rt. 69 outside of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He had saved $36,000 from working at a nickel mine and decided to write and produce a horror film to screen at his own drive-in. Director Donald R. Passmore was hired, then fired after four days and replaced by Klaus Vetter. Once finished, Zazalenchuk found he could not afford the lab costs to have the film developed, but finally saved enough in drive-in proceeds to get it processed. It premiered at "The 69 Drive-In" in 1974 and went on to a long local run before it was bought by a New York distributor in the market for a tax write-off.
- Alternate versionsNumerous gory parts of the film were cut down by Ontario Censors, the footage is now said to be lost.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film (2004)
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George A. Romero and William Castle are to blame for rubbish like this
George A. Romero and William Castle both were natural geniuses and pioneers in the very secluded domain of low-budget shock and cult cinema! Romero single-handedly reformed the zombie genre in 1968 with "Night of the Living Dead", and William Castle had the unique talent of stuffing his cheap B-movies with slick gimmicks that made them extra entertaining and unforgettable. Thanks to them, and a handful of other great and visionary directors, the horror genre today is so wonderful.
Involuntarily and indirectly, however, Romero and Castle were also responsible for an incredibly large amount of insufferably bad movies. How is that? Well, because of their success, many other yet painfully untalented directors also assumed they could make money in the film industry for as long as they put zombies and funny gimmicks in their movies. Lawrence Zazelenchuk, for instance, was a Canadian drive-in theater owner who assumed that he was also able to produce a zombie cult-classic with barely $36.000. The result is "Corpse Eaters"; a nearly unendurably awful amateur flick without a plot, but with horrendous acting, slow pacing, pitiable make-up effects, terrible voiceovers, and hideous camera work & editing.
The story - or lack thereof - features a funeral home director who drives around a cemetery, and two couples that make the stupid decision of breaking into a vault and holding a séance. Their shenanigans don't work at first, but when they then turn a random crucifix upside down, corpses suddenly emerge from their graves and go after them. Whenever the rotting corpses are about to tear apart a victim, there's a buzzer sound and an image of an old man in a movie theater covering his eyes, and that is supposed to be the gimmick. If William Castle ever watched "Corpse Eaters" - I doubt it, though - he surely would have been rolling his eyes. Even with a running time of barely 58 minutes, the film is full of pointless padding footage. In short, it simply doesn't deserve to exist.
Involuntarily and indirectly, however, Romero and Castle were also responsible for an incredibly large amount of insufferably bad movies. How is that? Well, because of their success, many other yet painfully untalented directors also assumed they could make money in the film industry for as long as they put zombies and funny gimmicks in their movies. Lawrence Zazelenchuk, for instance, was a Canadian drive-in theater owner who assumed that he was also able to produce a zombie cult-classic with barely $36.000. The result is "Corpse Eaters"; a nearly unendurably awful amateur flick without a plot, but with horrendous acting, slow pacing, pitiable make-up effects, terrible voiceovers, and hideous camera work & editing.
The story - or lack thereof - features a funeral home director who drives around a cemetery, and two couples that make the stupid decision of breaking into a vault and holding a séance. Their shenanigans don't work at first, but when they then turn a random crucifix upside down, corpses suddenly emerge from their graves and go after them. Whenever the rotting corpses are about to tear apart a victim, there's a buzzer sound and an image of an old man in a movie theater covering his eyes, and that is supposed to be the gimmick. If William Castle ever watched "Corpse Eaters" - I doubt it, though - he surely would have been rolling his eyes. Even with a running time of barely 58 minutes, the film is full of pointless padding footage. In short, it simply doesn't deserve to exist.
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- Aug 20, 2023
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- CA$36,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 1 minute
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