Day 9:Carnage

Carnage has moving furniture and household items. Lots of moving furniture and household items. If that's you're kind of thing, this is the movie for you. You'll see all the best: Opening cabinets, flying knives, moving carpets, floating records that start playing on their own, and so much more. Oh yeah, people die too.

The film opens with a newlywed couple embracing eachother. The groom shoots his wife in the head and then commits suicide. Some time later, a new couple moves into the house where the murder/suicide took place. After noticing some mysterious happenings around the home they eventually discover that it is being haunted by the spirits of the newlyweds. Guests that visit begin to get murdered by the spirits. Well, mostly the bride.

This movie serves as my introduction to director Andy Milligan. A director known for his unbearably bad attempts at low budget drive in features. This film lives up to his reputation in every way. It's not a good movie by any means but it can be entertaining if watched the correct way. Make sure you have someone around to make light conversation with during all the dialogue scenes. Don't worry, they don't seem to carry any sort of importance and the acting is about as bad it gets.

The gore scenes are plentiful in Carnage. We get a decapitation, a disembowlment, severed hand, and a couple more. None of these scenes are well done at all. In one part a knife literally flies into a preist's shoulder. However, after the camera angle changes, the knife is now clearly lodged into the back of the holy man's head! Literally none of the gore scenes are executed correctly! There is always something about them that is horribly wrong. So does this make the film even worse or just that much more entertaining? As someone who celebrates the the cheesiest of gore, I choose the latter.

Aside from it's gory murder sequences, I honestly can't think of any other reason to watch this travesty. I can't in good conscious reccomend that anybody watch this unless they are bad movie enthusiasts. I've seen some pretty bad films in my day. Hell! I just watched Cat In The Cage the other day. Remember? So I feel as though I've built a tolerance for trash cinema that most people don't have. To be a VHS collector, you kind of NEED that sort of tolerance. If you have a similar viewpoint on bad films, I say check this one out once to see the hilariously entertaining murder sequences.

Body Count:8

Side Note: This movie contains some of the weakest moustaches I've seen on film. Moustache heroes Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck would be very disappointed.