Buzzard Nuts County is one of those regions that has long gone to the
dogs: Most of the locals are involved with crime in one way or another,
and the main sorority house has long reopened as a whorehouse, and is
allowed to stay open thanks to a string of corrupt politicians. The locals
include Lewis Mercer (Lewis Mercer), who has just successfully robbed a
bank but now has to find out his sister Lana (Lana Tailor) is actually a
prostitute, and Butch (Tony Watt), a freeloader madly in love with Lana
whose heart id broken every time she does it with another man (and taking
her profession into account, that's VERY often). Add to this several FBI
agents who have no idea what they're actually doing (or if they are, they
change sides and live a life of crime), a few too many semi-automatic
weapons, and strippers, just for good measure, and you've got ... well,
nothing to prepare you for the onslaught of Pheremone Labonza (Vivita),
vulgo Acid Head, a girl who went on a killing spree after half her face
was destroyed by acid but has since disappeared ... but now that she has
met Dracula (Tony Watt), he has given her a new lease of life by teaching
her the joys of bloodsucking and cannibalism - oh, and the supernatural.
But Acid Head doesn't just arrive on her own, she brings the media with
her ... When watching Acid Head: The Buzzard Nuts County
Slaughter, your first thought will probably be "this is not a
very good movie" ... and the second will be "then why am I
enjoying it all that much?" To be precise, Acid Head: The
Buzzard Nuts County Slaughter is almost certainly not the best movie
ever shot, its narrative build-up is lacking to say the least, its
characters are sloppily drawn, the editing is choppy, the acting is
wooden, and not all of the jokes are subtle ... and those are exactly the
reasons you might want to watch that movie beginning to end, it's a very
unpretentious homage to low budget genre movies of yesteryear (mostly the
1970s) including all the elements that made them so bad and great at the
same time - and director Tony Watt really manages to capture exactly that
spirit, making many a fan of that particular genre and period of
filmmaking (like me) very happy in the process.
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