Flesh Eating Mothers (1988)

Touches You

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Depending on your state of mind and personal standards (obviously mine were very low this time), "Flesh Eating Mothers" can be considered a delightful and charming low-budget late 80's splatter comedy. Of course this is pretty stupid, but if you go into this expected anything else than inane and offensive trash, you only have yourselves to blame people! In a happy little suburban community, the middle-aged mommies suddenly all synchronously develop cannibalistic appetites and begin to devour their husbands and children. The cause of all this tomfoolery is a venereal infection caused by overactive and hyper-sleazy jogging Casanova. Oh he's quite the "stud", all right, especially with his massively hairy chest and smooth talking skills. The adolescents try to fight back, as well as a fugitive copper (the first reasonable man to shoots his cannibalistic wife straight through the head) and a really short coroner. "Flesh Eating Mothers" is a nice and tacky time-waster with cheesy gore effects that are explicit but nevertheless too absurd to shock anyone. For example, there's a particular sequence in which a bunch of women literally tear apart a security guard. The scene is gross but at the same time quite hilarious. Yeah, the execution is pretty clumsy, but hey, at least this film is a lot better than the similarly themed (but also enjoyable) "Rabid Grannies". The teenager characters are surprisingly likable and the goofy soundtrack is irresistibly cheerful. Also, the script contains a lot of really lame and clichéd humor that you can't help but laugh at. Even if they're cannibals, the women remain concerned whether or not they turned off the oven before leaving the house and even in between human meals they debate their silverware. The midget coroner finds love in the arms of a doctor's assistant who's about twice his size and, when seen through a microscope, the venereal disease looks like a badly animated cartoon. The absolute OTT offensive highlight of "Flesh Eating Mothers" features two hungry wives fighting over a cat and literally break it in two. Watch it, if you have a wretched sense of humor!

Flesh-Eating Mothers is a bombastic parody of the excesses of modern life. When the over-sexed mothers sit around and discuss their over-active sex lives (without their husband's participation) this movie really hits home as a commentary on modern morality in a world that has lost its teleological end as an ethical culture in which the end of life is ethical satisfaction and contentment with God and His ultimate purpose. As usual in teenage movies, the teenagers are the moral paragons while the adults struggle to live up to their example. This lesson never gets old; teenagers are shown to be more aware of the moral ramifications of immorality as they are more innocent than the parents they are railing against. This is a humorous examination of the ramifications of a world gone wrong, and a humorous one at that!! Highly recommended!!!!!

My brother was the boy in the frying pan on the cover of the movie. We Lived in Jersey City at the time and personally knew the artist who illustrated the picture. He was about 7 or 8 years old at the time. He was given a signed copy of the poster but unfortunately a boy of his age has a tendency to lose things. We still to this day have never seen the movie.Really want to see it so I figure we will get it from direct DVD considering Amazon claims it doesn't come out on DVD until May.I had looked it up awhile back and the VHS versions were going for about sixty dollars for used copies. Talk about overpriced. Is this movie really as bad as many people have posted?

This absolutely wretchedly bad film opens with Commissioner Dixon (Ken Eaton) running through a wood with one of his arms missing, blood dripping onto the ground. He sees his wife Elisa (Lori Gustafson) turns round and fire his shotgun. Roddy Douglas (Louis Homyak) is the local stud who appears to be having, or has had in the past an affair with just about every woman in the film. Nurse Felicia Dodd (Carolyn Gratsch) informs her boss, Dr. Bass (Allen Lewis Rickman as Allen Rickman) that a sample taken from Douglas has been tested and she has some surprising results, Dr. Bass doesn't seem interested. Meanwhile there has been various instances of cannibalism among the towns female community. Sheriff Clyde McDormick (Mickey Ross) visits his ex-wife Lous (Marie Micheals) and finds her eating their son Billy (Scott Lerner). He shoots her. Other acts of cannibalism occur, Roddy's wife Sylvia (Katherine Mayfield) eats their baby, for instance. It soon becomes clear that Roddy has passed on some sort of viral disease that only affects women that have had children, it's as stupid as it sounds just don't ask. McDormick teams up with the local coroner Dr. Lee Grouley (Micheal Fuer) to try and figure out whats going on. Meanwhile the flesh-eating mothers remaining offspring Linda Douglas (Donatella Hecht), Joyce Shepard (Valorie Hubbard), Jeff Nathan (Robert Lee Oliver), Timmy Nolan (Terry Hayes) and Rinaldi Vivaldo (Neal Rosen) decide to take responsibility for their mothers actions and also set out to try and stop them.Co-written, co-produced and directed by the extremely untalented James Aviles Martin I hated this film. Simply hated it. Everything about it is absolutely terrible. The photography is of home camcorder quality, the music is awful as well, the sound is so badly recorded I could barely hear what people were saying and James mate, next time you want to record live sound make sure it's not next to a busy main road! It would be nice to actually hear what the characters were saying, you know what I mean? Production design is none existent, the whole film appears to be shot in about three different streets and some of the cast and crews houses. The gore is pretty tame, there's a bitten off arm, a few gunshot wounds and a sequence where a cop is eaten, but it looks awful. When Dr. Grouley and Felicia are examining some blood samples the microscopic image of the cells are hand drawn animation, it's the first time I've ever seen blood cells with faces and arms! I'm not joking, seriously the filmmakers depict blood under a microscope as cartoon characters bumping into each other! The script by Aviles Martin and Zev Schlasinger is predictably rubbish, boring, stupid, nothing happens for any reason and the dialogue sounds like it was written (and with the actors on show delivered) by a five year old. This is the kind of film that has a great eye-catching cool sounding title and gory over the top artwork on the video box but in the end is total crap, we've all been conned in this way. Please don't waste your time watching this film, I hated it, simple as that really. If I can can prevent, no save just one person from watching this piece of sewer scum by writing this review then it's been worth it. Probably one of the worst horror films I've ever had the misfortune to sit through, once again please avoid this crap at all costs!