HARVESTERS-2001-This is a terrible shot on video horror movie atrocity!
It was directed by someone named Joe Ripple. And you'll want to drink a whole bottle of his last name if you sit through it!
It's about some stupid thugs (lead by a lesbian ex-Gulf War veteran) who hold a family hostage. It turns out the family is actually a bunch of maniacs who kill people for their body parts. Most of the movie is a tedious mess of talkng and false scares.
Two US Marshalls who seem like the heroes (one is the director) get killed (kind of like at the begining of THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN) and it's up to the Gulf War veteran to get revenge.
HARVESTERS was produced and written Don Dohler who directed some very weird low budget movies (in Maryland where HARVESTERS was also filmed) like ALIEN FACTOR, FIEND and NIGHTBEAST. He also created the SFX magazine "Cinemagic".
The only actor I knew in the cast was George Stover who plays the crazy father. He was a fanzine publisher who'd appeared in other Dohler projects and some by John Waters (who also shot many of his early "infamous" movies in Maryland).
The DVD version I saw had the nerve to include a "Making Of" featurette!
I've read Ripple & Dohler made three more movies together after this including ALIEN FACTOR 2 which Dohler directed. Unfortunately he died at 60 in 2006.
Thanks for reading!
2 comments:
This does sound complete awful, like one of those Polonia Bros. movies. I do like Don Dohler's movie Fiend; Alien Factor wasn't as good but had its moments. No clue who this Ripple guy is. :/
Yeah, Alien Factor was watchable but unfortunately I haven't seen Fiend..yet!
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