Apatros Review Ep-0060: The Corpse-Grinders II [2000]

AR-0060: Psychotronic cinema legend Ted V. Mikels mounts one of his earliest 21st Century DTV [direct-to-video] efforts with this sequel to his centrepiece 1971 el sleazo drive-in schlock classic, where the nephews of the two founders of the Lotus Cat Food Company ["Food For Cats Who Love People"] restart the cat food cannery and again resort to their long-dead uncles' modus operandi of using human corpses for the cat food. The only new change is to source freshly-dead corpses by making back-alley deals with the local undertakers and funeral homes, which actually comes in handy when representatives of an alien race of cat-people who are busy playing the "Ukrainian-Russian Military Poker Game" [if you get my topical pun], are running short on food stocks and the US Government is happy to siphon off some food to feed them, resulting in the Lotus Boys scoring the contract and winning the jackpot.Show more

The 1971 original was pretty rough stuff, but this el crapola sequel is a prime example of the pitfalls of being a Ted V. Mikels film. Slow as hell, a lack of gore or nudity, an obscene amount of padding [this is because of Mikels' scattershot writing style] and visual effects rougher than your average James Rolfe AVGN video from the good old days of the 2000s, all making this movie something of an unholy beast lurking in the bowels of the corpse of your local video store...

My Grade: D- [Atrocious]

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