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Corpse Eaters

  • 1974
  • R
  • 1h 1m
IMDb RATING
4.1/10
249
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Corpse Eaters (1974)
Body HorrorHorror

A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.A story of zombies eating freshly killed humans.

  • Directors
    • Donald R. Passmore
    • Klaus Vetter
  • Writers
    • Lawrence Zazelenchuk
    • Alan Nicholson
  • Stars
    • Michael Hopkins
    • Ed LeBreton
    • Terry London
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.1/10
    249
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Donald R. Passmore
      • Klaus Vetter
    • Writers
      • Lawrence Zazelenchuk
      • Alan Nicholson
    • Stars
      • Michael Hopkins
      • Ed LeBreton
      • Terry London
    • 13User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Michael Hopkins
    Ed LeBreton
    Terry London
    Michael Krizanc
    Helina Carson
    Douglas Deering
    Gary Stevens
    Bill Sharen
    Louise Parr
    Bill Costello
    Cathy Hickey
    Ted Majkot
    Peter Travaglini
    Doris Costello
    Chris Kemp
    Alan Epps
    Paula Giroux
    • Directors
      • Donald R. Passmore
      • Klaus Vetter
    • Writers
      • Lawrence Zazelenchuk
      • Alan Nicholson
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    7moycon

    36k Well spent.

    I watched this flick yesterday and I have to say it's the finest horror film made for $36,000 I've ever seen (Sorry Steckler) The film is definitely worth seeking out if you are a zombie fan. This movie reeks of soul and atmosphere. Some of the shots of the zombs are the best ever committed to film. VERY creepy looking dusty webbed corpses slowly shamble to their screaming victims. Brrrrrrr.

    Hot saggy Canadian women with sexy accents will keep you preoccupied before the HORROR rears its undead corpse eating head. This film entertained from start to finish. I couldn't ask for more than that. My only complaint is that is was too short.
    5b_kite

    Interesting little canuxploitation flick.

    An interesting little canuxploitation flick made in Ontario obviously so someone could get a quick buck on the drive-in circuit. It's cheap and very amateurish in both directing and acting. It does however display some pretty graphic gore scenes, some nudity, and an interesting gimmick at the beginning were a warning comes up before the violent bits (similar to Boardinghouse). It apparently caused some controversy and as a result several minutes of gore were cut out, and are presumably lost. There's really no reason to intentionally seek this out, but, if you are a fan of this sorta thing give it a shot, it's short at only 57 minutes and as of this review is available on youtube.
    4trashgang

    a real grindhouse low budget master piece

    This thought long lost flick sometimes comes available on the web. So I bought me a copy. Well, of course the acting is terrible and the story line is childish but it does have his moments. I think people who searched this one also knows the backstory of it. It was made by a grindhouse cinema owner for an extreme low budget. But for me he surely didn't spoiled the money on props but on the make up. The make up is for that kind of flick well done. The zombies are watchable and the gore is intact. The only problem with that kind of movies is the quality of the pelicule. It's terrible, luckely no hiss on the sound but sometimes it's way too dark. So you have to watch clearly to see the gore. In a funny way they tried to sell this one as really not for the squeamish. A voice-over tells in the beginning of the movie to watch out for a sign and a man appearing with green flashes, that tells you there is gore on the way. Of course that doesn't work, made me think of Cannibal Girls, had that annoying bell when the red stuff started to flow. They had the original idea, Cannibal Girls was made a year earlier. Don't go for the storyline, go for the zombies and notice a continuity mistake. When the girl and guy are making love first she takes of her bra, then they make love and suddenly her underwear is back on...try to do that, or am I getting a bit offline,...eat it you ugly corpses
    7HumanoidOfFlesh

    Funeral coach driver.

    Lawrence Zazelenchuk was an owner of drive-in on Route 69,just outside of Sudbury.With the budget of $36 000 he made "Corpse Eaters"-the first Canadian gore film about zombies emerging from a ghastly crypt filled with coffins and bones.He wanted to have a horror film of his own to play in his cinema."Corpse Eaters" is loaded with grisly over-the-top gore and violence.The graveyard and crypt are downright creepy and the zombies look very Fulciesque.The plot is cheesy and it often jumps all over the place beginning with the morgue attendants,then to our sex crazed and beer starved quartet,who unleash the living dead to the hospital and back to the morgue again.If you like zombie movies or Herschell Gordon Lewis gorefests give "Corpse Eaters" a chance.7 out of 10.
    2Coventry

    George A. Romero and William Castle are to blame for rubbish like this

    George A. Romero and William Castle both were natural geniuses and pioneers in the very secluded domain of low-budget shock and cult cinema! Romero single-handedly reformed the zombie genre in 1968 with "Night of the Living Dead", and William Castle had the unique talent of stuffing his cheap B-movies with slick gimmicks that made them extra entertaining and unforgettable. Thanks to them, and a handful of other great and visionary directors, the horror genre today is so wonderful.

    Involuntarily and indirectly, however, Romero and Castle were also responsible for an incredibly large amount of insufferably bad movies. How is that? Well, because of their success, many other yet painfully untalented directors also assumed they could make money in the film industry for as long as they put zombies and funny gimmicks in their movies. Lawrence Zazelenchuk, for instance, was a Canadian drive-in theater owner who assumed that he was also able to produce a zombie cult-classic with barely $36.000. The result is "Corpse Eaters"; a nearly unendurably awful amateur flick without a plot, but with horrendous acting, slow pacing, pitiable make-up effects, terrible voiceovers, and hideous camera work & editing.

    The story - or lack thereof - features a funeral home director who drives around a cemetery, and two couples that make the stupid decision of breaking into a vault and holding a séance. Their shenanigans don't work at first, but when they then turn a random crucifix upside down, corpses suddenly emerge from their graves and go after them. Whenever the rotting corpses are about to tear apart a victim, there's a buzzer sound and an image of an old man in a movie theater covering his eyes, and that is supposed to be the gimmick. If William Castle ever watched "Corpse Eaters" - I doubt it, though - he surely would have been rolling his eyes. Even with a running time of barely 58 minutes, the film is full of pointless padding footage. In short, it simply doesn't deserve to exist.

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    • Trivia
      Produced in 1973 by Lawrence Zazelenchuk, who owned "The 69 Drive-In" on Rt. 69 outside of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. He had saved $36,000 from working at a nickel mine and decided to write and produce a horror film to screen at his own drive-in. Director Donald R. Passmore was hired, then fired after four days and replaced by Klaus Vetter. Once finished, Zazalenchuk found he could not afford the lab costs to have the film developed, but finally saved enough in drive-in proceeds to get it processed. It premiered at "The 69 Drive-In" in 1974 and went on to a long local run before it was bought by a New York distributor in the market for a tax write-off.
    • Alternate versions
      Numerous gory parts of the film were cut down by Ontario Censors, the footage is now said to be lost.
    • Connections
      Featured in Nightmare in Canada: Canadian Horror on Film (2004)

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    • Release date
      • August 16, 1974 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • Canada
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
    • Production company
      • Maniac Productions
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    • Budget
      • CA$36,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 1m(61 min)

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