A young, deranged girl runs an illegal Massage Parlor in the back of her house. When the patrons come in, she kills them and uses their blood in a ritual to resurrect her dead lover.
USA
USA
According to one reviewer this had a $50 budget. If that is the case this movie is pure magic. Hell even if they had a $1000 budget this is pure magic. The plot is simple, people come to white button down shirt girl’s house for massages, she kills them, rinse and repeat. There is more to it but that is lowdown and dirty basics here. The soundtrack is filled with arcade game noises. The movie is filled with absurd evil laughter, cheap gore effects and weird 1990s camcorder filters. With an hour running time this is worth a watch if you are into low budget horror with cheap thrills.
I kinda dug the stooopid plot (killing numerous people to bring a dead lover back to life will always be my jam), and I get what the director Richard Mogg is going at, and what they did with a $50 budget is certainly admirable, but…you gotta give the audience something: at least a little sleaze or even a minimal effort gore gag because Massage Parlor of Death just isn't clever enough for even a parity 67 run time.
Day 7 Horror Scavenger Hunt July 2018
It's all about the Sleaze today. So to start with, I shut my blinds......well, turns out there's no really any sleaze. Boo hiss boo
Tongue in cheek bonkers.....whahahahahaha
I love her manic laugh and her pantomime weapons.
A very low budget, and a hoot
It’s SOV Saturday which means it’s time for Massage Parlor of Death!
The plot is simple. A massage therapist with some of the worst techniques in existence murders her clients in an effort to resurrect the spirit of her dead lover.
The lead actress did an ok job but mostly looked like she was holding back laughter, especially during that awkward bed scene. The gore effects were terrible, and all of the fake stabbing was incredibly painful to watch. I mean seriously it was probably some of the worst I’ve ever seen.
This movie was also very weirdly edited at times, and the music sounded like it came straight out of the opening of a Genesis game, but overall not a bad watch! I definitely could’ve done without enduring that tomato eating scene though.
Richard Mogg is a really cool dude who knows pretty much everything about SOV horror movies that the world has forgotten. I highly recommend his two books, Analog Nightmares: The Shot on Video Horror Films of 1982-1995 and
Giftwrapped & Gutted: The Trashiest Christmas Horror Movies Ever Made. The man has a lot of passion for these movies and his books are a great resource for anybody who is first getting into these types of films, or someone who is already into this stuff. I decided to check out one of his films, and as I expected it's a no-budget SOV trashy horror comedy. Everything here is far from technically achieved—actors flub lines, gore is cheaper looking than even is usual…
Richard Mogg is an SOV enthusiast who makes movies for SOV enthusiasts. If you do not know what this means, you should avoid his films.
I have seen plenty of SOV in my day and I also recently finished the HG Lewis Feast from Arrow so I get what Mogg is going for and I think he succeeds at the look and ineptness that defines many of the low/no budget video films that came out in the 80s and 90s. I liked this a lot more than Mogg's Teenage Slumber Party Nightmare which had some pacing issues. I think he has the right idea keeping the running time to close to 60 minutes. Lead actress Michelle Kaveet gets the "crazy…
Unless this is a high school student movie, I’m not sure what the point of this one is. Seems like it’s nothing more than a historical recording of one man’s effort to make the world laugh with a silly horror movie, which happens to fail on every level. No effort is made to make this look like anything other than a group of people with zero movie experience stumbling to make a film on a Saturday afternoon. The gore effects are ketchup and Halloween props. The simulated sex scene is done with all clothes on and fully fastened. The plot feels adlibbed. The props are whatever the director found lying around his apartment the morning of the shoot. Half the…
Pure insanity
I could probably spend longer writing about this 62 minute slice of lunacy than its own miserly runtime. Such is the triumphant power and depth of it’s sheer ridiculousity.
Ten seconds into the opening scene it’s clear the quality level we are dealing with.
The sleazy slimeball with outrageous eyebrow acting ability made me want to stab him myself way before he opened his mouth.
The stabbing scenes are laughably shoddy; the (clearly plastic) knife never enters the victims, often actually bouncing off their skin or merely slide across, wiping the blood as it goes.
Speaking of blood, there’s plenty of it here, oozing from the mouth, spurting from a severed artery, flowing from chest wounds... but rather…
