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 film is unique in its own strange way, but to be totally honest I found it really dull. I'm a fan of director Nick Zedd's other films such as They Eat Scum and War is Menstrual Envy. They're mostly fascinating and one-of-a-kind curiousities. This one is reminiscent of a home movie that is way overacted and lacking in any sort of shocking or original material. The vague plot concerns a mad scientist bringing back the dead, and lots of bad jokes and crude, but amusing gore FX follow. It's all very pointless, although it features Richard Hell (of the Voidoids) as a cowboy and Zacherle as a funny narrator. All in all, it's one of Zedd's worst films.

In my entire life, I have never seen a more stunning example of how parody can fall flat on it's face. Listen, I get it, low-budget horror movies are laughable with their bad acting, corny dialog and low- budget special effects. Soooo......the obvious way to satirize them is with worse acting, cornier dialog, and special effects that would make Ed Wood cringe, right?. WRONG. And this movie proves it with a vengeance. Parodying low budget horror movies is an OK idea, just as long as you don't end up with a film that is substantially worse than most low budget horror movies. Furthermore, for a film to succeed as a parody, it usually requires humor and that is something that is PAINFULLY missing in this film. The amateurish acting and cringe worthy dialog would have been fine with me if I had, at least gotten a few decent laughs out of it. But the (intentional) laughs are few and far between. As far as the low-budget sets and bad special effects are concerned, I understand that they were deliberately bad. However, they went WAY overboard to make them look cheap and cheezy.

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.

I like "bad" movies. I get a kick out of movies like The Toxic Avenger or Sorority House massacre with terrible acting and minimal plot. I like low budget movies, Evil Dead and PI are great movies IMO.

However, this movie combines, no plot, no budget, bad acting, with just generally being annoying and cardboard and paper props.

I did not watch the whole movie because it was so horribly bad. This is so bad it probably isn't even MST3K material.

I give this a 1 out of 10 because negative infinity is not an option.

Worst movie I've ever tried to watch.

If you like "good" movies, stay clear of this one. If you like "bad" movies, stay clear of this one.