There is a trio of cannibal brothers (Terry King, Garvin Lee, Perry
Todd) living in the sewers who like to kill and eat people (hence cannibals) and
rape women (who conceive and then bear mutant children in a mere matter of
hours) - and after a while, the local police and the FBI really
get worried about this situation. Their efforts lead to nothing though
because one of the cops on the case (Terry King) is actually one of the
cannibals who doesn't even shy away to feed his partner (Dino Faluchi) to
his family, and even inside the FBI, the cannibal brothers have a stool
pigeon ... You know, I like (very) low budget independent
movies, and I can live with cheap and unconvincing special effects,
undertalented actors, silly but sensatinalist storylines, and even
dialogues that overuse the words fuck and motherfucker to
fake being offensive - and Eat the Rich: The Cannibal Murders has
all of that, yet it's a pretty bad film, and I don't mean in a so-bad-it's-good-way.
Problem with the film is that it doesn't even try to overcome its humble
origins: Its screenplay lacks stringency, feels awfully episodic, and
leads to nowhere, its characters (the bad as well as the good guys) seem
to do nothing else than to insult each other (even the cops or the
cannibals among themselves) to such an extent that you can't identify with
any ot them, and there is not one attempt made to give the whole thing
some decent pacing. All of these flaws are independent from budgetary
limitations of course, and they make this movie really suck badly. Best
stay away from this one. By the way, the brothers claim to only
eat rich people to justify the Rich-part of the title (which is
actually stolen) - but actually, they eat anyone who crosses their part,
and none of their victims seems to be particuarly well-off financially.
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