Caroline Braekman, Catherine Aymerie, Daneille Daven

When the elderly Remington sisters (played by Danielle Daven and Anne-Marie Fox) invite their relatives to a dinner party celebrating the siblings' upcoming 92nd birthday, they leave one name off the ...( read more  read more... )list: their devil-worshipping nephew, Christopher. But the family Satanist sends a surprise gift from hell that turns the grannies into rapacious ghouls who can't wait to sink their dentures into human flesh. Not for the queasy.

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R, 1 hr. 23 min.

Directed by: Emmanuel Kervyn

Release Date: December 31, 1989

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DVD Release Date: April 25, 2002

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  • August 25, 2009
    Just because this film bears a typically Troma-like title, and features the Troma logo on the packaging, don't make the mistake of thinking it is a Troma production?because it isn't.

    It is, in fact, a low-budget Belgian film that was simply picked up for distribution by the stud...( read more)io, and, as far as I am concerned, it is much more enjoyable than the majority of Lloyd Kaufman's own B-movie output.

    In this delightfully silly and very gory romp, a group of greedy relatives gather together at the mansion of their two elderly aunts, in order to attend their birthday celebrations (and hopefully worm their way into their aunts' wills). However, when the old women open a surprise birthday present (sent by the black sheep of the family?a practitioner of the black arts), they become possessed, transform into vicious, drooling, bloodthirsty monsters, and proceed to tear their party guests limb from limb.

    If you're a fan of visceral OTT slapstick horror?particularly Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy (which this film is obviously heavily influenced by) or the early work of Peter Jackson (whose similarly daft Bad Taste came out the same year)?then Rabid Grannies should be right up your alley. Director Emmanuel Kervyn spends the first thirty minutes introducing us to his raft of absurdly unlikeable characters (none of whom really deserve to survive 'til the end credits), and the next sixty dismembering them in as many inventive and silly ways as possible. It might not be Oscar winning material, but it's a whole heap of fun!

    Considering the limited budget, the juicy effects on display are pretty damn good, and the film sure doesn't hold back with the nastiness: one man has his limbs hacked off, before being impaled (between the legs) on a pike; a fat guy gets stuck trying to escape, and has his ass eaten; and even a little girl gets reduced to spare parts by the demonic old dears!
  • May 19, 2008
    Extremely silly and hilariously bad euro trash.
  • September 27, 2009
    What can I say about Rabid Grannies? First of all they aren't grannies, they're aunties. Second, the dubbing is so bad that it's great. And third, it's a campy bloodbath with plenty of tasteless deaths. It's about a pair of rich old biddies and they're obnoxious relatives who ...( read more)all arrive at their old mansion for a birthday celebration. A present from their estranged satanist nephew turns the old ladies into bloodthirsty demons who then go on a rampage. Sure, the plot isn't original in the least, but the energy and the tasteless carnage more than make up for it. The American version is chopped of a lot of it's more gruesome scenes, but there's still plenty of mayhem left over, plus you can find unedited versions online, if you're interested (and if you're into splatter then you probably are).
  • July 8, 2009
    This started out looking for all intents and purposes, to be a dry British mystery. Dull at first, and then an orgy of hilarious violence and good gruesome makeup effects. Normally, the Troma full feature films bore me. Nevertheless his parodies, while unimportant, are reason...( read more)ably on target. I give this one two and half stars because although they played a good joke on the audience, it was slow going for the first half . Also, they partly spoiled what could have been a better trick on the public with the movie's title, and by putting the Troma name in the opening credits. With a bit more cleverness, this could have been, and almost was, a "shaggy dog story" for the horror genre.
  • January 4, 2009
    Un Troma made in Belgique
  • April 2, 2008
    you love it or hate it....I LOVE!
  • November 18, 2007
    You're kidding me, right? Even the name sounds stupid on this one.
  • August 7, 2007
    Wow, its freakin' awesome
  • March 2, 2007
    so i have a weakenss for troma films

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  • grayavec
    May 17, 2009
    Looks grosser than Re-Animator.

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