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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Cheezy Flicks Ent
Salesrank: 84988
Released: December 11, 2007 |
| Our Price: $3.50 |
| Used Price: $6.63 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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AC-3 Color DVD NTSC | |
Editorial Review:
Funeral homes and greasy spoon diners what a combo plate! - An undertaker and his two friends, who are restaurant owners, drum up business by going out on the town and killing people. The restaurant owners use parts of the bodies for their menu, and the
The Undertaker and His Pals Reviews:
Fans of Cult cinema, do not miss this movie! 
2009-02-28 - I happened to stumble across this little gem in a Horror movie DVD collection I bought during Halloween. It was the best DVD collection I ever bought, not only because of all the movies that came with it but also because it exposed me to the the highly enjoyable, UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS. One night I just decided to watch this one, mainly because of the off beat sounding title and was pleasantly surprised!
The movie goes by fast with tons of bad jokes, horrible camera angels, bright red buckets of gore, terrible sound quality, off timed vocal dubbing and many more things that most people would try and avoid doing while making a movie. Not only does the "cheese" factor makes this a breezy experience but the movie itself is only about an hour long! Whoever made this movie was obviously just trying to cash in on teenage crowds going to their local sleazy Drive-In theaters and nothing more.
The actual movie plot is pretty ridiculous, an undertaker has joined up with a couple of low rent diner goons with a scheme to kill young people. They serve some of the bodies up as food in the diner and then dress the rest of the corpse up with expensive clothing and make their families pay high prices at the funeral. Meanwhile, the undertaker is the "brains" behind the whole operation, if you can call it that.
If all of this sounds pretty stupid, that's because it is. THE UNDERTAKER AND HIS PALS is the type of movie that you watch at 2 o'clock in the morning with your best friends, while totally drunk. Everything about the movie is so bad that it just kinda' captivates you from the moment it starts to the moment it's finished. This is an early example of a real "Grindhouse" movie. The copy I own is of such bad quality that it almost makes it worth while, mainly because of that old school vintage look.
Every single person I've shown this movie to has totally enjoyed it. It's one of those "it's so bad, it's good" type of movies. I even think it's better and more enjoyable than PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE! Gore hounds have a few scenes to enjoy here and there. One being a pretty silly death involving a woman in a steam room getting beaten to death with a rusty chain! Sure, it's not gory like HELLRAISER or THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE but for the time period, it does boast a good amount of splatter. Fans of good and serious Horror might want to avoid this movie, mainly because it's so bad that you'll end up hating it more than anything else. If you don't mind awful acting, terrible camera work, bad editing and messy gore, then you may actually like this movie.
My best advice, just watch the movie!
Special Today: Leg Of Lamb 
2008-12-12 - "The Undertaker and His Pals" is a moldy piece of stinky cheese from 1966 starring Ray Dannis (not to be confused with the vastly more talented Ray Dennis Steckler) as The Undertaker. The film revolves around three cannibal bikers led by Dannis on a culinary crime spree. The film opens with a girl whose last name is Lamb (bet you can't see this one coming...) who is killed and has her leg removed for use in the chef's special at "The Greasy Spoon" a diner run by the other two bikers. It was inevitable that the special the following day would be "leg of lamb", which Private Investigator Harry Glass and his secretary Miss Poultry (really) find not to their liking. Unfortunately for Miss Poultry, she's next on the hit list and the next day's special is equally predictable, although no more appetizing.
During their last killing, a woman shoots off the license plate of one of the bikes in the most unlikely piece of marksmanship in history, leading Glass and police ultimately to the solution to the puzzle with the assistance of twin vixens Thursday and Friday. The conclusion couples the least plausible accidental death scene in history with the worst closing theme song ("Cut In, Cut Up, Cut Out") in ready recollection.
The film has atrocious production values. The color is so bad that parts of it appear almost to be black and white, while other parts are so skewed in blue and yellow color balance as to almost require sunglasses. The sound effects are not remotely well synched with the film, and the special effects are utterly laughable. The soundtrack relentlessly juxtaposes drum solos, jazz trumpet and saxophone licks, and ragtime piano snippets at completely random and meaningless locations, which were sometimes so jarringly inappropriate that their very presence made me laugh. The acting is horrible, and the script is riddled with stilted dialogue and continuity problems as well as inane logical problems. How did Dannis survive his fall from the top of a building to come back in the next scene? Why did the chef change from killing Dannis to killing his own wait staff in mid scene? I don't know, and I doubt that T.L.P. Swicegood, director of this mess, did either. Mercifully this film killed his career, so we don't have to endure more daily cannibalistic specials in a sequel.
The film is ostensibly a comedy, but really isn't funny. I generously gave it two stars for a modicum of camp value, and for the fact that it's only 66 minutes long. Sometimes less is more.
