Honey Britches (1971)

User Rating:

1.9/10   

Directors:

Donn Davison
Fred Olen Ray

Writer:

Barbara Morris Davison (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Their Kind of Kinship Means Anything Goes!

Plot:

This is the story of four jewel thieves on the run who decide to hole up with a hillbilly couple until the search for them slackens off.

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Ashley Brooks	...	Mary Sue
George Ellis	...	Harlan P. Craven
Trudy Moore	...	Susan
Mike Coolik
Jim Peck
Valarie Lipsey
Pepper Thurston
R. Kenneth Wade	...	Tobe
Alan Davis	...	Moonshine Customer
Ben Ennis	...	Moonshine Customer
Chris Christ	...	Moonshine Customer
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
John Carradine	...	The Judge of Hell (uncredited)

Directed by
Donn Davison
Fred Olen Ray		(new footage)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Barbara Morris Davison		writer

Produced by
Donn Davison	....	producer
Fred Olen Ray	....	producer (new footage)
Lee Jones	....	producer (uncredited)

Cinematography by
Avrum M. Fine

Film Editing by
Avrum M. Fine

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Margot Breier	....	assistant director (as Margot Noel Breier)

Sound Department
John Pastore	....	sound

Special Effects by
Don Friedman	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Robert Day	....	gaffer
Ben Ennis	....	gaffer
Avrum M. Fine	....	camera operator
Steve Tannen	....	grip
Lynn Wheeler	....	still photographer

Other crew
Margot Breier	....	continuity (as Margot Noel Breier)
Bill Bruning	....	publicist
Trudy McCollough	....	assistant to director

Production Companies

• Troma Entertainment

Distributors

• Craddock Films (1971) (USA) (theatrical)
• Troma Entertainment (1986) (USA) (theatrical)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (USA) (VHS)

Also Known As:

Death Farm (USA) (video title)
Demented Death Farm Massacre: The Movie (UK) (video title)
Hillbilly Hooker (USA) (soft porn version)
Little Whorehouse on the Prairie (USA)
Moonshiners' Women (USA)
Shantytown Honeymoon (USA) (working title)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | USA:R

Company:

Troma Entertainment

Trivia:

Producer Fred Olen Ray bought the obscure, and barely released, 1972 film "Shantytown Honeymoon", shot several new scenes with John Carradine as the Devil, and sold it to Troma Films in 1986 as "Demented Death Farm Massacre: The Movie".

Movie Connections:

Featured in Twisted Sex Vol. 14 (1996) (V)

Barely watchable, but has it's moments

Moments mostly of bad film-making. It is, to me anyway, clearly not a horror film that got messed with some in the editing to try to make it more horrifying--with little success. Though none of the performances are really much good, some have a regional theater style fascination. You'll hope for real nudity, but your hope with remain only a hope by and large. The failed camp nature of the thing is somehow less painful than in other purely Fred Olen Ray movies, so maybe he didn't have that much to do with this one.

Total crapola post production sound job leads to more laughs and they try real hard to use sounds that don't match the picture, it's like they only have one FX CD just had to make it work for everything--though there is very little in the way of polish on any level. The first, and one of the only, night scenes in the movie is almost entirely out of focus and grainy.

It's sort of going for a 2000 Maniacs feel I suppose only less well made--yes that's what I said.