The Corpse Grinders (1971) on 16mm
Plus Intestines From Space (1978)October 4, 2024
Grand Illusion CinemaSeattle, WA
Part of the Grand Illusion Cinema’s annual All Monsters Attack! series
A legendary cult favorite from the director of The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders is a horror classic crammed full of jaw-dropping twists, mind-scrambling surprises and a self-aware sense of humor that became one of filmmaker Ted V. Mikels’ trademarks. Co-written by Arch Hall Sr. (Eegah) and Joseph Cranston (The Crawling Hand).
The Lotus Cat Food Company has hit major financial trouble and is on the verge of closing, until the owners realize they can use bodies from the local graveyard to fill their tins. As their latest product hits the shelves, it’s revealed to have an unintentional result: every cat that eats it is transformed into a bloodthirsty brute with an unending hunger for human flesh!
Plus: Intestines from Space (1978), a comedy short by The Langley Punks from Washington, DC. Drunken rock losers pick up hitchhiking hot babes, only to encounter hostile interplanetary innards.
(Print of The Corpse Grinders courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive. Print of Instestines From Space courtesy of Bat City Cinema.)
“…an entertaining little flick that feels as if Ed Wood directed a script by Herschell Gordon Lewis.” – Alex DiVincenzo, Broke Horror Fan
“Batshit-senseless” – Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
“Fog, sweat, mold, blood, food, bums, cheesecake (not the kind you eat), fake sign language, and killer kitty-cats — all of these things spell LEGIT. …A writhing monument to independent weirdness.” – Joseph A. Ziemba, Bleeding Skull
“The Langley Punks weren’t exactly Jean-Luc Goddard, but Goddard never made a movie called Intestines From Space.” – Washington Post
A legendary cult favorite from the director of The Doll Squad, The Corpse Grinders is a horror classic crammed full of jaw-dropping twists, mind-scrambling surprises and a self-aware sense of humor that became one of filmmaker Ted V. Mikels’ trademarks. Co-written by Arch Hall Sr. (Eegah) and Joseph Cranston (The Crawling Hand).
The Lotus Cat Food Company has hit major financial trouble and is on the verge of closing, until the owners realize they can use bodies from the local graveyard to fill their tins. As their latest product hits the shelves, it’s revealed to have an unintentional result: every cat that eats it is transformed into a bloodthirsty brute with an unending hunger for human flesh!
Plus: Intestines from Space (1978), a comedy short by The Langley Punks from Washington, DC. Drunken rock losers pick up hitchhiking hot babes, only to encounter hostile interplanetary innards.
(Print of The Corpse Grinders courtesy of the American Genre Film Archive. Print of Instestines From Space courtesy of Bat City Cinema.)
“…an entertaining little flick that feels as if Ed Wood directed a script by Herschell Gordon Lewis.” – Alex DiVincenzo, Broke Horror Fan
“Batshit-senseless” – Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine
“Fog, sweat, mold, blood, food, bums, cheesecake (not the kind you eat), fake sign language, and killer kitty-cats — all of these things spell LEGIT. …A writhing monument to independent weirdness.” – Joseph A. Ziemba, Bleeding Skull
“The Langley Punks weren’t exactly Jean-Luc Goddard, but Goddard never made a movie called Intestines From Space.” – Washington Post
