Whenever I chuck on a shitty horror film, this is what I hope for. With The Granny you get it all: dumb, gory, gimmicky deaths with great gore effects, lots of terrible and hilarious dialogue ("You're a load I should have swallowed!"), gratuitous fake boobs, a wisecracking villain, crazy puppets (including a gruesome cat-corpse puppet), the film's director playing a ponytail-sportin' cool guy, and even a penis being ripped off. Thanks, Luca Bercovici. Thanks, The Granny.

let's face it at this rate I'm never gonna see citizen kane am I

Fun gore and tits version of Death becomes her basically, with Stella Stevens drinking a tainted potion that turns her into a wisecracking fiend that proceeds to gorily kill off her greedy family. Cozily selfaware of how silly it actually is and tremendously entertaining.

Дешевое и сердитое веселье, не очень талантливый direct-to-video-гиньоль про бабушку, вернувшуюся с того света, чтобы отомстить своим мразотным наследникам. Одну родственницу, например, рвут на части ожившие шкуры пушных зверьков, другому отрезают ножницами член во время минета. Сам режиссер Берковичи играет борца со Злом, в прологе появляется Патрик Килпатрик. Самое забавное – шикарная Шэннон Уирри, актриса из эротической лабуды 90-х, в роли единственной приличной бабушкиной родственницы, которую все считают серой мышкой просто потому что она носит очки! Жаль только, что бабушка умирает и оживает только минут через 50 и до того приходится долго знакомиться с персонажами-жертвами.

Batshit

Only for completests of bad 90’s horror does this film have something to offer. That being said, I would love to see a high definition cut of this film. I can’t even believe I just wrote that. Oh well.

Absolutely primo 90s horror schlock filmmaking. The editing and style is incredibly on-point. Whenever the 90s reach that same fever-pitch of nostalgia the 80s have, this'll be in high demand. Stock-full of offensive, great, terrible lines (and line-reads), The Granny runs super smoothly through the 85 minutes it takes to tell the decade-spanning tale of a granny whose greedy relatives kill her only to have her come back as an avenging demon. It often makes no sense but the characters are so fun and they spout such bullshit that it absolutely never matters.

Susan Sontag said that pure camp is unintentional and intentional camp is unsuccessful. I mostly agree, and movies like THE GRANNY are great support for this argument.

There are some fun gags and makeup effects here, but its biggest failing is in the cast. I would've loved to see an older actress play the titular grandmother and an average looking woman play the supposedly plain-faced Kelly (as opposed to the comically attractive Shannon Whirry).

Put this on with some friends and some beer. You'll have a good time, but this isn't the long lost B movie masterpiece you're looking for.

A wealthy matriarch (Stella Stevens) isn't shy about letting her money-grubbing family know what she thinks of them, but a mystical potion may find a way to bring them closer together. Inexplicable hybrid of Death Becomes Her and Greedy wears its direct-to-video, later Nightmare on Elm Street sequel-chasing credentials on its sleeve. The good news is that the relish with which Stevens plays her role (especially in the second half) is strangely entertaining to watch. Also, director Luca Bercovici wrote a scene allowing him to make out with Shannon Whirry, so he did something right here.

Fun fact: this was photographed by Inception's Wally Pfister. We all gotta start somewhere.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.