Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Nathan Schiff

Writer:

Nathan Schiff (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo...

Plot Keywords:

Dead Children | Detective | Murder | Bicycle | Mutilated Child

Cast

John Smihula	...	Inspector Cameron
Fred Borges	...	Dr. Sendam
Fred Dabby	...	Fred
Jody Kadish	...	Jake
Steven Kriete	...	Detective Anderson
Edward Schiff	...	Boy 1
Jon Grossman	...	Boy 2
Marie Louise Lomba	...	Newscaster
Karen Khazzam	...	Little girl
Carol Cancro	...	1st Victim
Tina Hawn	...	Corpse
Linda Herrmann	...	2nd Victim

Runtime:

67 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Rodent Films

Trivia:

The filmmakers were Long Island high schoolers who shot the entire feature on Super 8 film, using friends and family for the cast and creating special effects with mere household items.

Weasels rip my wallet

Lordy Lordy, I can certainly say this film caused me to re-examine my definition of "Z-grade" horror films. Is there a lower rating? I guess not. And to think that thanks to modern technology this piece of junk is available on DVD.....wow, to think I've been missing out all this time. This makes "Blood Feast" and "Horror House on Highway 5" look like "Gone with the Wind" or perhaps "It's A Wonderful Life". So the idea I guess, is that a space probe or something (which is obviously a tiny model rocket) crashes on Long Island and some kids find it and dump some goop down a weasel hole, which results in a mutant rabid weasel that is bigger than a man. Most of what you see in reference to mutating weasels and body parts is completely unfathomable, as in you have no idea what you're looking at. Some hapless goons stumble into the nest of a mad doctor/scientist/whatever, and one is subjected to weasel blood infusion, I guess, after which he becomes a rampaging were-weasel. I guess some of this was worth a laugh, but the sound quality is horrible and the music cuts in and out, and overall if they were going to put this on a DVD they should have at least cleaned some of it up. But perhaps I'm missing the point, maybe that adds to the charm. Yeah, right. Maybe 3 out of 10 stars.