Geek Maggot Bingo or the Freak from Suckweasel Mountain

This is the first (and probably only) Nick Zedd movie I have ever seen but I can already tell what kind of a director he is. He's one that deliberately attempts to make his movies look bad and even cheaper than they already were in fact to make. He does this by using cardboard sets, that deliberately look all the more like cheap cardboard sets, bad editing, old camera's, over-lighting and a bad script, with bad visuals and actors in it.

It's the sort of movie that tries to be a sort of a throwback to the '50's B-monster and science-fiction genre. I could recognize about everything that the movie tried to do but yet I still really couldn't appreciate it all that much. Why? Well, you could better ask that question to the film-makers.

I really don't see the point of this movie. It's a 'modern' movie, that deliberately wants to look bad, cheap and utterly silly. But why? What's the point of it all it it doesn't make the movie a good or entertaining one to watch. This is really the biggest complaint I have about this movie. I can enjoy watching a bad and silly B-movie from the '50's but I really couldn't enjoy watching this movie. The movie is too busy trying to be silly and forgets to ever become a fun one as well. It makes this ultimately such a pointless watch, that besides feels more like a torment instead.

Just its title alone makes it apparent what kind of movie this is. The title looks as if it's the most crazy one they could come up with during a short brainstorm session. 'We should name our movie Geek Maggot. Bigno! Or perhaps The Freak. From Suckweasel Mountain?' It's title makes absolutely no sense though in the context of the movie and has actually nothing to do with the movie at all. It simply wants to come across as as silly as possible, as does the entire movie.

Really, I wanted to appreciate and like this movie, since I recognized all of tricks Nick Zedd used to make the movie look and feel like a low-budget, Z-grade, monster/science-fiction flick and I also really sort of liked its cheap visuals and unusual directing approach but about half way through I really had to give up on it all. It just started to drag on and on, without being about anything really and the story actually got worse as it neared its end. And like I said, the movie still could had been somewhat saved if it actually was a fun one to watch. But there is really hardly entertainment to be found in this odd production, which still remains the movie its biggest miss.

An unusual and odd little movie that I wish I could recommend, since it's definitely something unique but I just can't find any good reasons to do so.

3/10

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This amateur film is reminiscent of erstwhile Saturday Morning Spook Show fare, only without the character some of those clinkers had. It was obviously filmed in someone's basement; the next-door neighbors are utilized as actors, and anyone else willing to put on a vinyl Halloween get-up and make a fool of himself; it uses crude line drawings painted on sheets and hung on a wall to simulate a mad doctor's laboratory; and there is nothing here that could be dignified with so grandiose a name as "plot," much less anything remotely original. All this would be well and good if it were funny, and god knows the performers mug and strain so hard to let us know it's a COMEDY we're watching, it's a wonder they don't implode. How this thing ever got general video release is one of the marvels of modern marketing. It would be difficult to imagine anything harder to sit through, and would have to be on anyone's "ten worst films" list. If you haven't seen it, let's just call it A MUST AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

Zedd's take on Dracula, Frankenstein, etc... all filmed using painted sets, bad acting and tiresome dialog. Some of the makeup effects are kinda cool like the melting face with the eyeball falling out of it's socket. Um, ok...

We also get Richard Hell as the cowboy. Jeez, he CAN'T act !

I'm glad he didn't make acting a career.

There's the added bonus of a 1983 interview with the cast and crew, videotaped while they're all sitting around drunk, rambling incoherently. And the NY Times calls this sh#t, art ?

Other Zedd shorts included on this travesty of a DVD include:

ELF PANTIES - Jen with fake Elf ears, wets her panties. We also get to see her crappy apartment as well as Jen's ugly body while she eats a popsicle.

Wow...big deal...

LORD OF THE COCK RINGS - Magical cock ring that some idiot can't get off ? We wind up seeing him and Jen's ugly, skanky friends all piled up in someone's apartment. Some of them topless, some of them not and they're all wearing fake Elf's ears, again.

Jesus, what's with the elf ears?

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA - Zedd wanders aimlessly around in Manhattan in the snow, looking like some kind of junkie loser, finally touching base with some of his fellow junkie losers on some snow covered corner at night.

More big deal...

1 out of 10 for being a waste of time...

Nick Zedd is largely a hack, but its hard not to enjoy Geek Maggot Bingo. The amateurness and lack of focus alone is appealing in a strange way, coupled with a seemingly unending barrage of terrible horror movie cliches. There are lots of in-jokes for horror fans (ZACHERLEY is the host!) and a very strange take on the punk DIY aesthetic. The acting is horrible, and everything else on the dvd is worthless, but I was charmed by this absurd film.

Nick Zedd is the 80's Ed Wood if you don't think so watch this or they eat scum. Geek maggot bingo is on par with Plan 9 from outer space as being one of the best bad movies. The set is beyond cheap all the phones are made of paper even a wall phone is a paper cut-out desk phone windows are badly drawn or painted picture that look like they were done with crayon. But the movie is not boring it so bad it's funny Ed Wood would be proud I have seen worse movies that were professionally made. This is a must see for all bad movie buffs if you like this check out they eat scum another Nick Zedd z-grade movie or anything from Nathan Schiff. Ps watch for a Mars attack Alien prop used to make a two headed monster.