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.

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Pro Tip: Putting a woman in a pair of glasses and a ponytail and calling her "The Ugly One" rarely works, especially when that woman is Shannon Whirry.

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.

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The only line I liked was "Well, what did you expect, you pious fuck? I'm granny!"

Other than that this movie was annoying and lame.

This could easily get 2 stars because it's so over the top cheesy and probably the most dumb, ridiculous horror movie I've seen since I did a marathon of the Puppet Master series. But it's also probably for those exact reasons I rated it so high! I'd probably even put this above the best movie in the Puppet Master series, Toulon's Revenge. This movie is insane and hilariously sleazy. Featuring the elderly woman version of the wisecracking Freddy Krueger from the latter half of the Nightmare on Elm Street series as well as dicks getting cut off and silly straight-to-video special effects, this film is a must-see for anyone who loves fun horror movies. Plus it's on YouTube so I recommend watching it ASAP!

A decent front loaded episode of TALES FROM THE CRYPT in which Stella Steven's explodes.

The first fifty five minutes of this are a rough sit, with the director believing that crooked angles = horror style, but once the titular Granny pops back up talking like Evil Ash and starts murdering her annoying family by supernatural means (Death by Fur Coat!) it put a smile on my face. It fizzles out, but at least there was plenty of gore till the video generated effect filled finale.

I'm still not sure what the hell was going on with that prologue involving a demon and a exorcist. Did they insert that from another film?