Name: Mardi Gras Massacre
Genre: Horror
Rating: 12
Cast: Curt Dawson, Gwen Arment, William Metzo, Laura Misch Owens, Butch Benit

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A sizable portion of the film consists of watching uncomfortably-framed wide shots of people having deeply uninteresting conversations.

Rated: 1/5

Jul 29, 2018

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Bizarre, sleazy and amusingly inept in spots, this one is so much fun from start to finish, I had more fun watching it than anyone has the right to have. Well worth tracking down, give it a look.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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This is not a 2005 movie as stated but one from 1978 and from the infamous DPP list and this weeks 'Video Nasty' to review. In short, it is a big pile of tripe. There is no reason anyone should watch this, unless of course you're doing the 'nasties' challenge. It is a poorer version of 'Blood Feast', from the same list. Dull, repetitive in the extreme and with some of the worst acting I have ever had the misfortune to see.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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I really enjoyed taking the MST3K piss out of Mardi Gras Massacre but that could have been the 6 tall boys & 4 Caesars that I had drank previously that I was a pretty easy audience. The off the cuff comments were flying like crazy & was was smiling constantly. Im not sure if I watched this straight that it would have quite the charms so I high suggest that you take it in w/ some sort of buzz. Low grade to say the least but if you like the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis you will render a lot of the same enjoyment & it didn't seem to be a train wreck like a lot of his films are. That's not saying it's good but if you're looking for schlocky horror you can do a lot worse

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Mardi Gras Massacre plays out like a cheap porn-parody of Q: The Winged Serpent with all of the sex scenes removed and replaced with montages to generic disco music.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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I'm very forgiving towards ultra low budget drive-in type horror films of the 70s and 80s for the simple fact it was actually hard to make movies back in the day with limited funds and resources (unlike today where any talentless ass wipe can buy a cheap digital video camera, edit their own filth on their personal laptop and somehow convince Lionsgate to release it on DVD). However, even with a promising title like "Mardi Gras Massacre", this film comes off completely incompetent with no entrainment value what-so-ever, even on an unintentional level. The simple plot has an rich, high class asshole who goes around flashing cash and asking bartenders and pimps where he can find the most "evil" women. He then proceeds to take these hookers to his secrete chamber where he brutally sacrifices them to his Aztec God while wearing a gold mask. He disposes their bodies on railroad tracks (why I don't know as this seems like a terrible place to "hide" a body) and two bumbling cops somehow can't crack the case despite oodles of evidence pointing them in the right direction. Die-hard horror fanatics will notice the similarities between this and the plot to Herschell Gordon Lewis's splatter classic "Blood Feast" where a psychopath also sacrifices women to an ancient God. Unlike that film, "Mardi Gras Massacre" lacks any of the campy charm that made "Blood Feast" such a hoot. Lewis also knew he didn't have enough plot to pad it to a full hour and a half and made it last comfortable hour. Not director Jack Weis as he loads up "Mardi Gras Massacre" with so much filler that I nearly fell asleep on numerous occasions. Each killing is shown in its entirety and by the third time it grows very weary and boring. We also get plenty of filler with him stocking up on footage of disco dancing and cops beating the streets asking pedestrians questions. Mix all that with a low speed chase with a station wagon, shoddy editing, non-acting and boring point-and-shoot directing and your guaranteed a film to cure your insomnia. There's tons of female flesh present for people that judge a films quality on that aspect alone but "Mardi Gras Massacre" just a BAD movie, and NOT so BAD it's GOOD. There isn't one aspect of this film that I can recommend, it just plain and simple sucks. I knew I was in trouble when the title card on the film literally had the title painted on a piece of plastic held up in front of the camera complete with shadows of people moving behind it. A sure sign of quality! What kills me more is that Code Red DVD, one my favorite companies, put so much effort into releasing this hunk of crap. They did a tremendous job transferring the film from its last remaining 1" tape master source (all prints and negatives have been lost). Well I believe all films, including awful one's like "Mardi Gras Massacre", deserve to be preserved in the digital format even for historical context and for that I thank Code Red. I do appreciate them also including a beautiful horror host on eh DVD release that bookends the movie which eases the pain of the film experience.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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An enjoyably awful piece of 70s trash horror. Quite Herschell Gordon Lewis-esque, plays out like a mix of Blood Feast and The Gore Gore Girls as a wealthy occultist fellow lure's prostitutes back to his New Orleans apartment only to sacrifice them to an Aztec God. Lots of nudity, a bit of heart-ripping gore and cheesy acting ensure things never get boring providing plenty of unexpected laughs along the way. It's a disaster of a film though and won't be for everyones taste.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Jack Weis

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Curt Dawson

Sgt. Frank Hebert

Gwen Arment

Sherry

William Metzo

John

Laura Misch Owens

Shirley Anderson - the Evil Prostitute

Butch Benit

Sam the Barman

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Synopsis

The police hunt a serial killer who ritualistically murders women during Mardi Gras.

Director: Jack Weis
Producer: Jack Weis
Screenwriter: Jack Weis
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 16, 2019
Runtime: 1h 37m

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