Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution
expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a delightful bit of
Christmas-season counter-programming ready for delivery to the DVD marketplace
the week-before-Christmas (Dec. 17 to be exact).
This would be writer/director Jeff Lyon’s Main
Street Meats. This award-winning genre film checks all of
the right boxes. Slasher, check. Black Comedy, check. Homage,
check (Herschell Gordon Lewis would have been proud). Gore, check. Tasty Treats, check (hey, the secret’s in
the sauce … ). So if you have a
hankering for some alternative viewing action during the Christmas holiday
season, this could be the one!!
Two brothers, Floyd (Steve Golla – Psycho
Holocaust) and Neddy (Don Markus), along
with their sister, “Sis” (Stacey Weber), are up against the wall with their
family-run butcher shop. Mom left it to
them, but their skill at running the place has them on the verge of bankruptcy.
Just when it couldn’t get any worse, in walks the
customer from hell who goes off on Neddy — we learn in a bit of a backstory
that a childhood accident has left him mute — and he blows his top. Unable to counter her verbal abuse, he does
the next best thing … Whack! Whack! Whack!
Now what to do with the body?
Of course … inventory. But when the regular customers take a fancy
to the new “meat” selections, business suddenly takes a turn for the better and
a steady supply needs to be found.
A few here, a few there, mainly high school kids
that no one will miss and the supply keeps coming. Even their one employee, Cherry (Morgan
Boland — Dead of the Night) comments how much the customers “love this week’s
special.” But when the mayor (Charles
Ramsey — Fast Zombies with Guns)
asks them to sponsor this year’s “Meat and Raffle Festival” things go into
overdrive (one of the great throw-away lines in the history of horror films is
delivered by “Sis” without missing a beat, “I sure hope there are enough people
to eat all the people”).
So join the
party — or as the mayor says, “Let’s not have a few missing teenagers spoil the
fun” — when Main Street Meats
arrives on DVD on Dec. 17.
Bonus features include a blooper reel and a “behind
the scenes” featurette.
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