Widely considered the first Canadian “gore” movie,Corpse Eatersrarely gets the attention it deserves.
He wasn’t interested in directing and eventually hiredKlaus Vetter.
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The film enjoyed a fairly decent run, playing at the drive-in over a few months.
On the surface, the greasy gentleman just seems to have a dark sense of humor.
Of the two storylines, the mortician’s suddenly becomes far more tragic.
The movie is gory, certainly.
Not only is he a drunk, he also reveals himself to have very little empathy for the dead.
Maybe it’s time to retire or, more likely, he’s just not a great guy.
This dead-eyed depiction of the callous, drunk mortician has an unfortunate connection to Zazenelchuk himself.
Waking from a drunken stupor, he stumbles downstairs and interrupts the cannibal orgy of corpse-eaters and goes mad.
The movie ends with him laughing hysterically as he’s beingdragged off to the Sudbury Mental Hospital.
