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So very, very bad.
The Undertaker and His Pals (T. L. P. Swicegood, 1967) <
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>Swicegood, a writer for the TV series The Untouchables, took the directorial helm for the first time with The Undertaker and His Pals. It was the last anyone in Hollywood heard from him; not only his directorial career, but his writing career, vanished. It is not that hard to see why. <
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>The Undertaker and His Pals is a beach comedy away from the beach, a softcore film without the sex. It certainly starts out with a shock; a woman is stalked by three masked motorcycle riders, then is attacked and killed, after which her legs are severed. The gore effects, for 1967, are stunning, and must have been shocking in the extreme to a pre-Night of the Living Dead audience. Unfortunately, Swicegood must have figured he couldn't get away with a whole film of such effects, and the explicit, deliciously shocking nature of the first scene is never to be found again. The movie descends into sixty-three minutes of slapstick, a Cro-Magnon version of Airplane! with cannibalism, but no one who can act nearly as well as Robert Hays. (And that's really saying something.) <
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>Yes, the film is only sixty-three minutes long. And the crowning touch on this monkey is that even though the film is so short, it still has to resort to the old puff-out-the-time trick of repeating scenery. If you cut out the filler, the movie would probably have been forty-five minutes long. Which would not have been a bad thing. Much of the forty-five minutes are filled with actresses from sex comedies wearing as little as possible and silly special effects (there is one, about halfway through the film, that looks out-of-place, but is the only time during its length the movie comes even close to the power of the first sequence). <
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>Probably good for a laugh, if you're under the influence, but otherwise, avoid it. * ½

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BORING MOVIE AND POOR SCRIPT
Eating human flesh makes for easy jokes. This movie has almost none. They seem to be more concerned about gore, which is boring as hell. Also, a movie like this needs at least one good horror or comedy actor. This film has none! Since many of the acters have appeared in major productions, the acting is acceptable. So, it's not funny in a SO BAD IT'S GOOD ED WOOD vain. There are better films to spend your money on!

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When heroin addicts get a camera and a budget
This is without a doubt the dumbest hour I ever spent, and I loved every minute. Who couldn't love the humble undertaker, he's just trying to make a living and no one wants extras these days. This film works on many levels and has so much social, entertainment, and educational value, I don't know where to begin.

Check out the awful sound sinc when the chick fires the gun out the window. She fires twice, then you hear two bangs, THEN she thrusts her hips twice. Classic.

The undertaker loses his license plate, gets wounded and is about to be dumped in acid, when suddenly he helps Doc kill Mort in the acid. Did anyone catch this? Why did they do this?

How did the undertaker survuve a jump off a six story building and walk away without a scratch?

How did the undertaker take a leap at Thursday from two feet away and miss? She didn't even move!

What happened to Detective Glass in the end? Thursday ends up with the fat dude?

In 1967 gas was $0.32 a gallon? WOW.

This film leaves me in awe everytime I watch it. Next time I got a hankerin' for Leg of Lamb, Chicken Breast, or Hambur-Ger, I'm gonna get my butt down to the Greasy Spoon!