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Rabid Grannies (1988)

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When given a demonic present by their black sheep nephew, two kindly old grannies are transformed into demons who proceed to gorily knock-off their greedy relatives. --IMDb
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Review by Lucid Dreams
Added: January 12, 2012
Have I told any of you how much I detest our wonderful web master Chad? Well, Chad and I will trade off favors for each other... and he usually ends up making me do a review. He gave me a list with three movies on them: Cleopatra Jones, The Craft and Rabid Grannies. I've seen the first two and didn't feel like watching them all over again just for a review, so Rabid Grannies it is.

The story focuses on two aunties that are as nice as you can get. They are extremely rich and give their money out to those who need it. Their family members, however, are unkind and greedy, only caring about themselves. The family gathers together every year to please their aunties, showering them with gifts. Well, not all of them. One of their nephews is not allowed to show himself to anyone because he likes to dabble in the dark arts. A gift was sent to them on that certain night and the aunties felt that he had changed. There is nothing in the box but a weird smoke emitting from inside. This smoke turns the aunties into demons that start killing off each family member one by one.

Now that explaining the story is over, I can tell you about how horrible this movie was. Well, I can throw in the few positive things about this craptastical movie. The story isn't really bad or good, but more of a typical horror set up. You get a group of people into one area, unleash the bad guy / guys and voila - you have a classic horror setup. Also, the makeup done on the aunties and some of the gore effects were good. This is the end of my positive feedback.

Now, on to what makes this movie pure crap. This was actually made in France, believe it or not, because my wife and I thought the audio was off, but it wasn't. No, the French actors remembered their English lines phonetically. This was so bad that they overdubbed it which didn't really help, at all. If there is one thing I hate more than anything it is dubbed movies. Apparently there is a download out in the internet somewhere with the original audio, but I don't really care to find it.

The next fault is the horrible editing. The only copy that can be found is the edited version, where they take out most of the gore. A scene will go like this; the demonic aunties will come up to kill someone by raising their hand and the next scene immediately shows them on the ground dead. This is throughout the entire movie and I know this was made in 1988, but I could have done it better.

Now we know the voices are dubbed over and I won't fault the actors on that, but I could put the movie on mute and still tell you these are some horrible actors. It looks like it should be one of those "so bad it's good" movies, but it's not. The woman playing the virgin was by far the best part and I really wanted her to die in a horrible edited fashion.

Last, who the hell decided to call this Rabid Grannies in America? Its original title is Les Mémés Cannibales and it baffles me that they still called it Rabid Grannies when they are their aunts... and they aren't rabid!

Overall: I wouldn't give this to my worst enemy. I would probably give this one point more if the gore wasn't edited, but sadly, it was. I'm pretty sure that Peter Jackson saw this film and while looking at it, said "I could make this one hundred times better", which is how Dead Alive was made. In fact, don't watch this - just watch Dead Alive because it is basically the same thing, but Dead Alive is more fun. 1/10.
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