{"id":3688,"date":"2007-07-16T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2021-01-31T18:47:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T01:47:42","slug":"corpse-grinders-the-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Corpse Grinders, The (1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;The house cats we&#8217;re dealing with, having first tasted flesh through this &#8212; maybe &#8212; or from other sources, react exactly like their wild cousins.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Poster-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Poster-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Poster-84x128.jpg 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Poster-675x1024.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen housecats suddenly start attacking their owners after eating Lotus Cat Food (&#8220;food for cats who love people&#8221;), a doctor (Sean Kenney) and his nurse (Monika Kelly) investigate the pet food company, run by a sociopath (Sanford Mitchell) and his business partner (J. Byron Foster).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amateur Sleuths<\/li>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Horror<\/li>\n<li>Killer Animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThis hideously bad movie by cult horror director Ted V. Mikels  never cashes in on its one-note premise: the use of human corpses for pet food. Instead, we&#8217;re subjected to countless badly acted scenes, some meant to titillate (busty women undress gratuitously), and others merely to exploit (there&#8217;s a &#8220;subplot&#8221; about a disturbed woman &#8212; played by Ann Noble &#8212; who cares for a plastic doll as though it&#8217;s her child.) Production values are low &#8212; the same shot of brown paste (meant to represent ground human flesh) being squeezed out of a tube in a flimsy contraption is used again and again &#8212; and the screenplay is sloppy (why don&#8217;t the factory owners remove clothing, hair, and bones before sending the bodies through the grinder?). Naturally, it&#8217;s exactly this level of ineptitude that appeals to fans of &#8220;bad movies&#8221;; but for most viewers, a film this awful needs MST3K spoofing to be rendered enjoyable. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The laughable meat-grinding machine<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder.jpg 853w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Grinder-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Countless pseudo-campy scenes between Dr. Glass (Kenney) and big-haired, big-bosomed Angie (Kelly)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor.jpg 853w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/Corpse-Grinders-Doctor-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, though it&#8217;s worth a one-time look simply for its status as a trashy cult hit, and as Mikels&#8217; best-known film. But unless you&#8217;re a fan of this kind of garbage, expect to endure it rather than enjoy it. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0068414\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevideograveyard.com\/c\/corpsegrinders.html\">Video Graveyard Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=951&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The house cats we&#8217;re dealing with, having first tasted flesh through this &#8212; maybe &#8212; or from other sources, react exactly like their wild cousins.&#8221; Synopsis: When housecats suddenly start attacking their owners after eating Lotus Cat Food (&#8220;food for cats who love people&#8221;), a doctor (Sean Kenney) and his nurse (Monika Kelly) investigate the pet food company, run by a sociopath (Sanford Mitchell) and his business partner (J. Byron Foster). Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Amateur Sleuths Black Comedy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3688\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67545,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/67545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}