Yeah, baby! There’s a stand-alone version of this out there for purchase/rent, but I got it as part of a 4 movie set (more on this later) for a few bucks.D&R is a product of the short-lived Full Moon/Tempe relationship in the mid 90′s that churned out some decent flicks. Dead and Rotting being one of them. Super low budget, grainy, washed out video and TERRIBLE audio (had to turn the volume up to 58 just to be able to hear things clearly) but this made the 4 movie set worth the 5$ it cost in and of itself.
Our basic premise, three rednecks in Ohio bark up the wrong tree by hiring two stoners to exact revenge against a freak who heckled them and his nutball witch old lady. Unfortunately, never trust stoners, they take things a step further by boiling the lady’s cat alive..who just happens to also be her son.. the freak the 3 lead idiots originally had beef with. Said lady is freaky to say the least and delivers the sell line "Do you know what it’s like when you’re dead and rotting?!"
Fuckin MONEY.
The old lady turns herself into a hot little number (Debbie Rochon) and seduces the three rednecks into donating their seed, so she can create.. well.. dead and rotted psycho killer ghouls whom she will use to exact her revenge. She lures them one by one in Rochon mode to be hacked to bits by the ghouls then kept on display with trees coming out of their heads (?!) in a garage.
Luckily the smart one wriggles free with the aid of the other stoner kid who didn’t get waxed and they set out on a journey to try and figure out how to put a stop to all of this.
The ending is kind of sudden and a letdown..but hey.. the rest of this movie rocks it, hard. On top of all this, this is a JR Bookwalter production, and is shot in Springfield Township Ohio (about 20 minutes from where I’m sitting now).
I believe the rest of the films in this set are Bookwalter efforts as well.. and given his penchant for keeping it local.. I hope to see some stuff I recognize.
Anyways.. Dead and Rotting is available in it’s singular form at Blockbuster and netflix and Blockbuster has the 4 movie set as well. Watch it!!
***and 1/2 out of *****
